Quote:It just scares me that you think a police officer who shoots and kills an unarmed man should not be held accountable for doing so. I'm certainly not right all the time, but I do know that if I'm going to kill someone, I'd better be damn sure that I'm right in that decision, and part of being right in that decision is being 100% certain that that man presents a clear, present and intentional danger to my life. 99% of the time, that requires him to either be armed or represent himself as being armed.


An anti-deadly force activist does not have the same training that a police officer would. Furthermore, I am not anti-deadly force. I am against using deadly force when there are other options available, and in the case of a single unarmed assailant, there are alternatives to putting two in the chest and one in the head.

You may not be anti deadly force, but you certainly are pro hindsight.


You have less than half a second to decide on your life as an angry man, suspected of a crime, charges at you and says he will kill you while pulling something from the back of his waistband. So you would wait until the gun is pointed at you before reacting with deadly force?


For your family's sake, please don't ever get into law enforcement. We don't need any more dead cops. I hope your widow would agree with the "It's better me than them" mentality.

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