What you just said cleanly and clearly speaks the lesson from this tragedy.

I could see this if you or I (Team Ah Yea!) were given a gun and put on the street. But not if we were selected because we were trained and qualified?

Pilots are trained and qualified. Otherwise, we would all agree it would be appropriate for them to grab parachutes should an engine go out. Imagine the fear of being in an airplane and an engine stops.

Police are too untrained, not held to standards in this country. They would be heroes if they took one every once in a while in the name of civil liberties. Don’t hold your breath.

Honestly, I can’t say how I would react in this type of situation, but I doubt I would empty two clips into someone without being damn sure that he had a gun.

Because you’re still just a fucking asshole. And there is a lot of evidence for that.

Please cite evidence as to why you feel that way.

Evidence on why I feel a certain way? None of your fucking business, how’s that for evidence.

This could be murder by cop as easy as not. From what wiki says, I see the “correct” procedure to have been to let the suspects get their guns and exit the cars before starting the arrest.

Police murder people when they create the very danger they wind up protecting themselves from. Especially here where the cops are “experienced.”

I thought this last night watching Worlds Worst something or other and cops were stopping that guy from driving a tank down the street. They used bolt cutter to open the overhead hatch then told the guy to stop. He did not, so they killed him. In this and so many other circumstances, I don’t know why a bullet to the leg wouldn’t be the first step.

It turns out, cops don’t put their own lives on the line to protect us, too often, they put our lives on the line to protect themselves (AFTER putting themselves in danger.)

Come on people we need to make our voices heard and get these public servants inline before they line us up.

Please cite evidence as to why you feel that way.

I won’t hold my breath.

1) Don’t boast about having a gun in the car, and don’t threaten to go get said gun when you get into an altercation at a strip club. This holds true whether or not you actually have a gun.

2) Don’t drive drunk, and certainly don’t try to run over cops.

police in general deal with society’s scum I’m glad to see however that everyone is playing monday morning quarterback with this topic. the fact is we’ll never know what the hell happened that night. The victim, as blacks here in socal say “got blasted,” the “pigs or po-po” all gave testimony about the incident, but different angles of the shooting give you a different perspective everytime. I can only assume that, other than the first idiot that fired his weapon, the others went on pure instinct and fired believing that one of their own was in mortal danger. the feds won’t touch this, the police commission will exonerate them and at this point the family should just sue in civil court, get millions of dollars in a settlement, move out of the ghetto and move to a nice white community its the american way.

Hey everybody, know how many people would be dead or, wounded had the cops forgotten to put bullets in their guns that night? ZERO.

Its beyond stupid to start giving police the ability to shoot anybody anytime they feel threatened…look out “J” walkers, little old ladies, delivery bicyclists…and the REAL scum, anybody who speeds 6-11 MPH over the limit!

Thinking goes with gun ownership. If you don’t think… well, someone gets shot and maybe killed.

Yeah, let’s all have guns. That’ll stop this from happening! (or at least that’s what some think) Ninnies.