Quote:So are you going to say that the officer that is the subject of this thread pulled the guy over for no apparent reason and should have waited for a marked unit to catch up to them?  Do you have any facts that point to the officer in question didn't think that the driver of the vehicle might have been impaired?  Is it possible that he may have actually (gasp!) saved lives by making the stop?

 

I just don't understand the hatred of law enforcement by some people.

Do you have any facts saying that he did think the driver was impaired? Because all the article says is that he was "driving erratically", and that's a routine traffic stop. Yes, he should have waited for a marked car to catch up.

 

I wouldn't expect a former LEO to make any real effort to understand (or even acknowledge) the major problems facing police departments today--problems created by the unchecked actions of their own officers--finally being brought to light through platforms as simple as a YouTube video of an officer lying his way through a traffic stop, or as major as national news proceedings about yet another white cop murdering yet another black man. The talking points you've thrown out there about judgment and split-second decisions are the same talking points that the police apologists use, ignoring that at the end of the day, one party in the dispute has a gun and the other does not, and drawing and using that gun against an unarmed man is always, <i>always</i> the wrong decision for a police officer to make. If fear of being the next big national news story was enough to keep the detective from pulling his gun on an unarmed man, good. A life was saved, it's just not the life you wanted spared.

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