(04-14-2021, 05:51 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(04-14-2021, 05:22 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: It appears he was looking for a safe area to pull over. That is the responsible thing to do. If I was in his situation I'd do the same exact thing. I don't wanna get myself or anyone else killed, because I pulled over in a dangerous spot. He was not being uncooperative at all. If he was trying to flee, he never would've stopped at all or he would have ran. We see those types of videos all the time. This was different. He did neither. That is evident in the video. They won't even tell him why they were pulling him over. These are just "amped up" cops looking to assert their authority on someone without justification. That's what happens when you put people with personality disorders in positions of power. The power goes to their heads and you get incidents like this. I truly believe police or other professions that allow you to use deadly force, should make potential employees go through very stringent psychological evaluations before they put you out in the field. I truly don't believe this cop would've passed such an evaluation based upon his actions in this video.

Regarding the first part in bold, refer to my prior comment.

Regarding the second part in bold, I can tell you from my experience (granted this was early 80's) I had to go through a psychological evaluation before I was even accepted into the academy.  I assume that it's still a requirement today.

Maybe the military is different, but I worked with a guy on a river boat casino who was an army veteran. He told me he joined the Army, because he wanted to feel what it was like to shoot someone. He then told me how disappointed he was that he never got that chance. (He never got deployed.) I always wondered how no one saw his odd behavior and the way he talked? He basically told everyone this story. I guess I assumed the military and police departments used the same type of psychological exam. Apparently, I assumed wrong.

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