Is This Photo Amazing Or Whats Your Take On It?

[piggynose]

well what do you think? Media URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36759711
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[THEMOTLEY1]

Sorry missed out, 'Do your own Googling!'

[Hypognosis]

@Talbot

I'll need to read the Philando article but my impression, from the phone footage is that the police officer was really panicked by the realisation of what he'd just done or generally expressing their lack of control of the situation.

Mind you, if all my training had warned me about the danger of drivers reaching for their glove compartment, then I'd probably be in that officer's shoes.

If you want to merely advise a driver of a faulty tail light they need to fix, why the heck do you need to even see their licence? (mine never leaves the house. Other countries' laws, presumably, vary).

[Hypognosis]

@TheMotley1

Is the Law not Pedantry personified?

[mikey4444]

Hypo...he panicked, thats obvious and we have the video evidence that his girlfriend took to show that.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Surely the Video doesn't start until after the shooting?

[-Talbot-]

I will ask yet again


What does the name Jeronimo Yanez suggest to you, mikey?

[ummmm]

Talbot - can you give me a hint?

[-Talbot-]

Well is the officer Hispanic or White?

[Hypognosis]

@mikey

So much for psychological evaluation then.

Armed, yet still panicked, under pressure? Or waiting for that excuse they'be always dreamed of?

I still remember the "pay to play at cops" 70 year old who thought it was his taser he'd drawn. On a guy being held to the ground (risk of zapping his colleagues).

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444
The discussion on here is very healthy, I agree SP.

But what a great pity this debate has come about by the death of yet another innocent black man, at the hands of a white Policeman ?


mikey, for a change please don't run away ... come and debate.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Where has everybody gone?

[-Talbot-]

mikey will most probably not be back, it happens on a regular basis. Sometimes he waits for other posters to try and get him out of a hole, if they make a decent fist of it he will return and say 'exactly what I was thinking Joe Bloggs'

I am probably on the naughty step ... again! :0(

[THEMOTLEY1]

In my book, he who digs the hole get's himself out of it.

[Bazile]

or could it be that he is done posting on the thread completely /for the day / he is having his tea /he is doing something else ?.

Does one have to continue posting on a thread ?

[mikey4444]

The Policemen wasn't black but his victim was.

The marches and demonstrations have been held under "Black lives Matter"

If it had been a black Policeman and a white victim, would there be 100,000's of white people demonstrating, and showing concern ?

[whiskeryron]

This is yet another example of the great Land of The Free where some are much free-er than others.

[retrocop]

Mikey loves the emotive word execution. He has pre judged the officer with no film footage leading up to the fatal shooting. As always mikey
is his own judge and jury. Must have insider info.
Tell me mikey. You have used the word execution twice with other flower inaccurate adjectives.
How do you describe the gunning down and killing of 5 police officers by
a black sniper. Other officers at least one hispanic wounded.
These officers were facilitating a Black march!!o
How do you describe these deaths, unfortunate, careless,negligence by the police officers in the line of duty. Nothing to say about this ???

[mikey4444]

This is from the Wiki entry of the man who was killed by the Policeman :::

"According to the Associated Press, Castile had in the past been stopped by police at least 52 times.[9] He had been found guilty of 31 misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors,[7] for minor traffic offenses, such as driving without a muffler, driving without a seat belt, operating a vehicle after license revocation, and not having a proper insurance card, and for parking violations.[7][9] Castile had never been convicted of a serious crime"

Can anyone remember this sketch from "Not the Nine O'clock News"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8EpfyCG2Y

[mikey4444]

Retro...I deplore all deaths caused in the way you have have outlined, but it was the murder of Castille that started all this off.