Agreed, most excuses by police are pretty weak "I have to shoot them the moment they reach cause they could have had a gun and my safety is important so im justified to shoot and kill and ask questions later"....
"Sounds reasonable, we will just give you a pay cut".
As long as I as a citizen can shoot an officer dead the moment he has a hiccup and that logic is applied equally in both directions its fine with me.
So long as the cops can say "I was scared for my life" and I cant, then we have a problem.
@icedquinn @teknomunk @Murray_N @freemo Is #TheRookie an accurate cop show?
> "I have to shoot them the moment they reach cause they could have had a gun and my safety is important so im justified to shoot and kill and ask questions later
When was the last time any cop said that?
> Sounds reasonable, we will just give you a pay cut
They do this because they basically can't fire their bad cops since they're unionized
> I have to shoot them the moment they reach cause they could have had a gun
that's a real thing. the window of time to determine if someone is about to become a huge problem is very short, definitely nowhere near long enough for a lot of critical thinking to happen. and the cost for getting it wrong is heavy on either decision arm.