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    skefflesMonique Judge
    8/18/18 10:09am
     KCRA reports that the new policy requires officers to consider their personal safety, the safety of the public as well as the suspect, and “the importance of making an arrest.”

    But not in that order!! Safety of the public, inclusive of the fact that suspects are ordinary members of the public, then importance of arrest, and coming a very distant last the safety of the officer. Their job is to put themselves in danger to serve the public. They should take a page out of the Coast Guard’s book; specifically the page which says “you have to go out, nobody says you have to come back”. Cops need to stop telling themselves their primary priority is to come home safe each night, because it is not. If they cannot accept that, then resign.

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      Old white guyskeffles
      8/18/18 11:01am

      Safety to the public should definitely be first. Just ask the family who lost a child because the cops decided to start riddling a suspect with bullets, and one that missed passed into the house and killed the child. Oops. But no charges. 

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    Mercenary ChefMonique Judge
    8/18/18 9:56am

    I now have a loop of the bodycam footage running through my head as I get ready for work. As such, I’m trying to determine the point at which there was anything that even remotely resembled a foot chase. These fuckers literally rolled up in their squad, ran to where they were told he was, and emptied their fucking weapons into a defenseless young man.

    This isn’t even a band-aid. This is spilling a margarita into an open wound, then dumping salt on it because 'margaritas need salt'.

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      skefflesMercenary Chef
      8/18/18 10:10am

      The camera ought to be attached to their guns, and activate as soon as that leaves its holster.

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      ArmoredTitanskeffles
      8/18/18 11:40am

      Or don’t give every cop a gun and instead require exponentially more training to have a gun. Not every call the cops get involves someone with a gun. 

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    chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastgotbannedMonique Judge
    8/18/18 9:39am

    So the police is allowed to tell me to stop on my own backyard? Because he was in his grandma’s yard, why would he stopped doing whatever he was doing?

    Doesn’t make any sense.

    I don’t own any backyard, just wondering.

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      aNukedHamsterchocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastgotbanned
      8/18/18 9:50am

      Basically. It’s why people’s dogs get shot in their yards all the time by police who feel “threatened”. Not to compare that to this but it’s a similar attitude.

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      MajorBurnaNukedHamster
      8/18/18 10:47am

      Do you remember the one time a cop felt threatened by a dog; took a shot, and shot his partner who was also his superior officer right in the fucking foot?

      Like maybe y’all could shoot straighter than a 3 yr old playing Duck Hunt. Or stop fucking shooting everyone and everything. Maybe just chillax on the whole murdering pets and people of color trip. But then, why would we need police?! 

      http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/03/10/Pittsburgh-police-officer-shoots-partner-in-foot/stories/201703100203

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    Old white guyMonique Judge
    8/18/18 10:58am

    Seriously, I missed this part of the coverage. They never identified themselves as police? How is that NOT a mandatory part of their rules of engagement. Not just for a foot chase. But I mean all the time.

    So, even if Stephon was armed, he would have been defending himself in shooting people he tried retreat from.

    And the cops got off? Incredible (no, sadly, it’s not incredible, it’s every day life for cops).

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      Mercenary ChefOld white guy
      8/18/18 12:24pm

      Yea, there was no shortage of rage posting the day the videos were released.

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    Raineyb1013Monique Judge
    8/18/18 11:26am

    KCRA reports that the new policy requires officers to consider their personal safety, the safety of the public as well as the suspect, and “the importance of making an arrest.”

    Is this the order in which they want these things considered? Because if it is, I’m not seeing a solution here. Just saying.

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    RegggiecideMonique Judge
    8/18/18 9:26am

    Why can bodycams even be turned off by the pigs? Isn’t the point of bodycams that police lie, cheat and steal (lives) and can't be trusted to do the lawful thing when no one's looking? #CancelAllCops

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    5senses4urselfMonique Judge
    8/18/18 10:35am

    Wasn’t able to follow the Clark murder too closely at the time,  so I  know  this  comment is late. 

    But they waited five minutes to render aid because they thought he was playing dead? Did they think they had fired play bullets?

    The lack of humanity is incomprehensible.

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    Old white guyMonique Judge
    8/18/18 10:53am

    “direction and guidance”.

    Followed by “hopes and prayers”, I’m sure. 

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