[quote]NDM wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
NDM wrote:
I could understand they were afraid and tried to run. That doesn’t make what the cops did wrong though.
My head is about to explode.
How the fucking fuck can you hold both of these ideas to be true simultaneously?
Wait, Go Heavy, is that you?
Both parties thought the other person was going to kill them. They both had “the right” to protect themselves, if the officer DID NOT identify himself. In either case, I don’t think what anyone did was “wrong”. If the cop did identify himself, then Sean Bell was wrong. No matter what, the police responded how they should have to the situation. Do you understand now? Or do I have to get my 6 year old niece to explain it to you?
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Dude, if it does come to light that the police did NOT identify themselves before it was too late (something that was clearly not mentioned in the very long and detailed verbal description given in the video with that article), then they are at fault if they kill some guys for reacting to what they thought was a threat on their own lives.
I personally don’t know your experiences in life. However, I do know if I were in that situation and a guy in regular clothes began to circle my car, I would expect a confrontation. It makes little sense that a cop from inside the club doing undercover work was now so clearly a “cop” upon exiting the club. The reaction of the guys as far as how they tried to get away screams that they were trying to get away from a situation quickly. That would make little sense if they understood they were simply about to be questioned by cops.
I just don’t see how that wouldn’t be the first possible scenario that would pop into someone’s head over this. It would take some major massaging of the facts and stereotyping to think that these guys, one about to be married the next day, decided they would just run over a cop for no damn reason. One scenario simply makes more sense than the other one.
Sure, we still need all of the facts, but blind following of whatever cops say in situations that seem to be telling us something else is just plain stupid.
That doesn’t have anything to do with cop hatred.
These guys had a verbal confrontation outside of a club where the words, “yo, go get my gun” were a part of the exchange. Nothing physical even happened. No one got hit. Please explain to me when it is the cop’s job to get involved when no one called them, no gun was actually seen, and no punches were actually thrown all because of talk.
It sounds like the cops got bored with their strip club investigation and decided to turn all of their attention on these guys and overreacted. If that is what happened, how is it wrong to shine a light on it? I now have to worry about every word uttered publicly for fear that a cop may take it the wrong way undercover?
