He has a toy truck! Shoot him! FTP!

[Captain Crawfish]

Is that why you bring it up as much as possible on here? It is as if you think you are the only one who is capable of driving a truck.

Somebody asked I never say shit about it. Anybody can just like anyone can do your job. Yeah they will probably fuck it up but anybody can do it.

[Jimbo]

Bullet that struck caregiver was meant to protect him

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article91160077.html

The North Miami police officer who shot an unarmed, black mental health worker caring for a patient actually took aim at the autistic man next to him, but missed, the head of the police union said Thursday.

It was a stunning admission from the police officer and from John Rivera, who heads up Miami-Dade’s Police Benevolent Association. But it was one meant to calm the fears of a nation besieged with cellphone videos of police shooting and sometimes killing unarmed black men.

In this case, Rivera said, the officer wound up wounding the man he was trying to save.

“I couldn’t allow this to continue for the community’s sake,” Rivera said Thursday during a hastily called press conference at the union’s Doral office. “Folks, this is not what the rest of the nation is going through.”

North Miami police and investigators have been tight-lipped since the Monday shooting, even as video of most of the encounter has been released. The story gained international attention and public pressure for answers mounted.

[dcs13]

I think i would have stuck with accidental discharge..

[LANTIRN]

Bullet that struck caregiver was meant to protect him

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...e91160077.html

I call bullshit on that excuse.

[Forever_frost]

Bullet that struck caregiver was meant to protect him

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...e91160077.html

So it's not that the cop was incompetent, it's that he was incompetent.

[Snatch Napkin]

Bullet that struck caregiver was meant to protect him

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...e91160077.html

Wow.

This whole thing is terribly shady and designed for public interpretation.

Where is the whole video? Did this officer literally walk up, assess the situation to be violent, and accidentally pulled his trigger instead of holster in his weapon?

Is this whole thing for real?
If it is, they better crucify the incompetent shit head.

[Forever_frost]

Wow.

This whole thing is terribly shady and designed for public interpretation.

Where is the whole video? Did this officer literally walk up, assess the situation to be violent, and accidentally pulled his trigger instead of holster in his weapon?

Is this whole thing for real?
If it is, they better crucify the incompetent shit head.

Evidently the guy was SWAT, hiding behind a car door, at 50 meters (all according to the story) and squeezed off 3 rounds at the guy with the truck, missed 2 shots and the third popped the guy laying down. So SWAT, the guys who are the cream of the crop for cops, missed 3 rounds at the gimme target from a safe position and hit the victim.

He needs to go to jail.

[Snatch Napkin]

Evidently the guy was SWAT, hiding behind a car door, at 50 meters (all according to the story) and squeezed off 3 rounds at the guy with the truck, missed 2 shots and the third popped the guy laying down. So SWAT, the guys who are the cream of the crop for cops, missed 3 rounds at the gimme target from a safe position and hit the victim.

He needs to go to jail.

That doesn't fit the original narrative.

The victim said the cop walked up, shot him, and then claimed he didn't know why he shot him.

Either way, agreed on jail time.

[Snatch Napkin]

Wait, was he using a pistol or rifle?

Where did you hear this?

[GhostTX]

Evidently the guy was SWAT, hiding behind a car door, at 50 meters (all according to the story) and squeezed off 3 rounds at the guy with the truck, missed 2 shots and the third popped the guy laying down. So SWAT, the guys who are the cream of the crop for cops, missed 3 rounds at the gimme target from a safe position and hit the victim.

He needs to go to jail.

Crap like that is why I shake my head when I have to hear how stellar LEO training is and why civilians don't need to be armed.

[Cobraman]

Crap like that is why I shake my head when I have to hear how stellar LEO training is

Lol yep.

[kingjason]

Wait, was he using a pistol or rifle?

Where did you hear this?

I sure hope not a rifle and missed, but on the other hand 54 yards with a pistol is a hell of a shot. Sounds like he anticipated the recoil a little! I really would like to see the whole video and here the dispatch on it.

From that first video, from what I can see and here, I would have just walked up to the guy and grabbed him, or visited with him for a bit, while I had one guy with lethal, and one guy with less lethal cover on me. I am curious what made them pull the trigger.

One of the most intense stand offs I have been in we did this. Well we were all lethal but one guy eventually. We got a call of a suicidal subject in his back drive with a short barrel shotty. As I was coming up to the garage from the front of the house he pulled off a round. I was like, here we go. We pied the corner and there he was in a lawn chair, with a shotty facing his chest. Eventually after he wouldn't talk to our negotiator anymore we walked up on him. Two lethals, weapons down, and one guy talking with not a damn thing in his hand. The guy talking was a Marine and reckonized all the shit on his garage wall(Military awards). After a lot of talking and that guy taking several deep breaths, closing his eyes, and clinching, he decided the best way to give up was to raise the shotty up sideways and throw it in the trunk. Holy shit that was close to going either way. Four times we thought he was going to pull the trigger and the last time he didn't exactly announce his intentions. Would have been a good shoot, but I am glad the barrel went the other way and my partner also realized it did not come around towards us. Split seconds to make life a death decisions fellas.

[ceyko]

Ya know, to those say "Do you have experience at a LEO" or similar, that's bullshit. I used to feel the same way about military life and upon reflection, one does not necessarily have to have experience in a field to have an opinion.

Granted, experience does provide more insight to a job/position. However, folks opinions do matter whether they have experience or not. Trying to shut those folks down with "You have no experience, shut up" type rebuttal is not going to create any progress. Trying to educate them and make them understand where you're coming from is a good thing. (Which a couple LEOs do here)

Now...folks without experience with a particular thing calling out others without experience is even more entertaining.

[FastFord19]

Crap like that is why I shake my head when I have to hear how stellar LEO training is

I don't think I've ever heard that. We could always use more and better training.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I completely agree this incident is inexcusable.
I also agree that every year there are incidents where the officer(s) in question are completely in the wrong.
I completely agree that there are men and women on departments nation wide who have zero business being a cop.

But there are thousands and thousands of contacts every year. Traffic stops, warrant, DWI, even the mythical "warning ticket". Out of those thousands of contacts every year, it is an incredibly tiny amount that "go bad".
Yet JUST LIKE the BLM pot stirrers, some of you here act like it is an epidemic, like the world is chock full of bad cops.
Running around with your hair on fire screaming "OMYGOD!!!!!OMYGOD!!! ALL COPS ARE BAD!!!
Get over yourselves.

I find it sad how many people that post here are such frothing at the mouth FTP'ers. I mean, really, some of you have such a deep hatred for those wearing the uniform and badge...and only because they wear the uniform and badge....that it must be a psychological problem.
Some of you need to get help.