Now they'll just have to shoot them
On Tuesday, Birmingham mayor Bernard Kincaid issued a moratorium on the use of Tasers by city police.
This is something Atlanta police have been dealing with for a little while as well. I think if people in custody wouldn't try to escape (or attack the police), they wouldn't have anything to worry about. Besides, if you're dealing with some dude the size of a defensive lineman, and that guy's high on meth or something, what else are you going to do? Shoot him, I guess:
"There are so many instances where without the Tasers we would have had to escalate all the way up to using lethal force, our sidearms," Sgt. Allen Treadaway, the police union president, said. "It saves lives."
At least with a Taser, there's a better chance the offenders won't get killed. If they have to shoot them now, so be it. That's safer for the cops than having to beat the crap out of them with a baton (besides, that would probably get the department sued by some race warlord like je$$e jack$on or julian bond). If somebody's gonna get killed, then better some low-life criminal than a good cop.
This is something Atlanta police have been dealing with for a little while as well. I think if people in custody wouldn't try to escape (or attack the police), they wouldn't have anything to worry about. Besides, if you're dealing with some dude the size of a defensive lineman, and that guy's high on meth or something, what else are you going to do? Shoot him, I guess:
"There are so many instances where without the Tasers we would have had to escalate all the way up to using lethal force, our sidearms," Sgt. Allen Treadaway, the police union president, said. "It saves lives."
At least with a Taser, there's a better chance the offenders won't get killed. If they have to shoot them now, so be it. That's safer for the cops than having to beat the crap out of them with a baton (besides, that would probably get the department sued by some race warlord like je$$e jack$on or julian bond). If somebody's gonna get killed, then better some low-life criminal than a good cop.
posted by -D. at 9:53 PM
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Stay in Georgia. Alabama already has a bad reputation !
NRA? Why am I not suprised?
Who are you? Do I know you?
Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me as to Alabama's "bad reputation." It's home to me as well as to you, apparently...and I'm looking forward to returning home.
I'll ignore your NRA comment, since it comes off as elitist and uninformed.
-D.
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