US Maniac cops at it again, this time in LA.

Police in America is largely a working class profession.

There is a class snobbery and disdain for them from the modern left in America because of that.

They could care less than a 1000 Black Americans out of a population of 650k African Americans in Chicago are murdered each year.

That's not trendy, not something that they want to get involved with.

It's telling that the highest support for Defund the Police is among young College educated whites. While just over 80% of African Americans want funding maintained or increased.

The amount of unarmed people shot by police in America is tiny, given the population,the crime levels, etc etc.

It's quite an achievement.

The argument I am making is that if she had just shot him and claimed it was justified, she likely wouldn’t have been charged with anything at all.

Dig up.

But she was shouting “Tazer” even before she shot him. If you believe she went down the “accidental shooting” route to cover up a moment of mania, how come she was shouting that even before shooting him?

I see the victim was a Chilean immigrant. Parents said the police refused to assist the dying girl but I think the cops in America don't try CPR themselves. I think if it is true that American cops don't actually use their guns that much in their whole career than maybe they be bad shots or reckless when they do

She's a wagon of the highest order. The Irish version of Diane Abbott.

All other police forces ? really ?

Police Killings by Country 2021 (worldpopulationreview.com)

It's also not that hard to realise that the ability to pick a decision apart with the benefit of video and time is exactly the opposite of what the officer who took the shot had.

He had to assess a situation in a split second, something which is a lot more difficult to do than you would expect, and come up with the correct response based on the facts as presented to him at the time.

In law the word reasonable is used a lot, and it's also misused by some. In court, whether the action is reasonable or not is decided based on the facts and with an instruction to the jury that they must judge whether the action was reasonable going by the information the officer had to hand at the time of the incident.

There was a great video on YouTube a while back where a civil rights activist was invited by a police department to go through a role play scenario where he was making the decision on whether to shoot or not, gave him a whole new perspective.

https://youtu.be/yfi3Ndh3n-g

It most certainly does happen in other countries, also if you look at my first post on this thread you'll see it doesn't happen all that often in the US either. Anyway the reason that it appears to happen more often in the US is that we consume an awful lot of US media, both traditional and social.

As to why the cop gets to decide if someone dies, well if i was a cop in a country where guns are so prevalent and the decision is to put someone in a box or wind up in one myself then personally the choice is pretty damn easy.

Those goal posts have been very expertly and neatly moved, bravo. I've already said that their training needs to be addressed, but the numbers on police killings in the US don't lie. The chance of being killed by a police officer during an encounter with them in the US is 0.0018459016393443%. This number greatly decreases for the general population to 0.00033972015163309405%.

The premise of this thread is that US police are maniacs who go around shooting and killing people for no reason, those numbers do not reflect that position. The accidental shooting of a young girl in LA is indeed tragic, but wasn't due to the actions of a blood thirsty cop, which is the picture being portrayed by some in this thread. em

Also your point on cops being less inclined to interfere and jump in were they are not wanted, well that's kind of their job. Generally speaking police don't just show up and interfere with law abiding citizens. Chances are if the police are there then either someone called them, or they were passing and saw something illegal happening they are duty bound to "interfere" in these situations.

I love people saying that the cops in 'Merica need to step back and work more with the community, when there appears to be more and more reports of ambush killings of cops. When that kinda stuff is happening, as a cop you're gonna be on guard the whole time. The public need to cooperate and understand this too, but instead they're just defunding them. It's all gonna come crashing down soon, and the army/national reserve is gonna start being used a lot more. If I was a cop in 'Merica, I'd be working my way towards any other job! Just my 2 cents.

"What I dont understand is the world's media constantly reporting every mistake US cops make....Gang violence in places like America is fairly hororrific. Ie literally thousands of dead a year. However that's largely ignored while the media report police shootings?"

Some people like and support gangs violence, must be lot of them in media unfortunately...

Again with the apples and oranges comparisons on this thread.

Ireland is estimated to have 393,000 firearms (both registered and unregistered), the US has an estimated 430,000,000+ firearms. Population of Ireland is approximately 5 million, population of the US is about 330 million, meaning there are over 100 million more guns than people in the USA.

2 very different situations, no matter how good goes you are at using Snapchat you can't arm every single man woman and child in this country with enough guns left over to arm a third of the country again. That is why US police are more on edge than the Gardai.