88 wrote: But I'm also not blind to the mountains of shit and real threats that police officers deal with on a daily basis. I have several friends who are cops on the Cleveland PD. I am continually amazed at the stuff they have to deal with. You want professionalism on the police force? So do I. But what are the police to do when the communities they are supposed to be serving do not treat them with any respect?
Tough fuck. That's the job. If it's too scary for them, they can fuck off and go sell shoes. Let's be honest here. Cops don't
deserve any respect.
You want the police to be restrained by Marquess of Queensberry rules in a street fight. That will not work.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
The shitbag in the OP didn't even bother to identify a target. He saw "extremely furtive gestures." Now just what exactly an
extremely furtive gesture is as opposed a regular old furtive gesture is a mystery. I'm just going to call it what it is: bullshit he made up to cover his ass. You know what he
didn't see? A weapon or anything that could be even remotely construed as a weapon. He just shit down his leg and opened fire. Is that the kind of clown you want running around "policing" the streets?
You know what's going to happen to that worthless piece of shit? Nothing at all. Why? Because he was scared. Once the piggy poops, he's good to go. He can kill anybody or shoot anything he wants...dogs, cats, bystanders, you, me, anything at all.
Let's address consequences and accountability for
everybody in the law enforcement food chain and then we can move on to militarization.