I'm not aware of anyone who has ever been shot by a cop while being polite and compliant. Fighting a cop is a battle you cannot win. Take it to court if you have to. Meanwhile, some poor old man watering his lawn in Chicago the other day got robbed and shot by a couple thugs in broad daylight. Those ******* bring police brutality on themselves and I'm all for it.
The problem with your last statement is that it flies in the face of due process.
I can think three people off the top of my head who have been shot by police while being polite and not resisting in just the last few months off the top of my head. They were all big news this summer.
Philando Castile
Charles Kinsey
Before I talk about the last one I am going to address Tim because the last name on my list ties into what he posted earlier. Like Tim I believe the vast majority of LEOs are good people who deal with the public in a professional and good faith manor. But Tim even you admit that there probably are more bad cops than we know. The issue I have is that you and many others are being lead down the path by "experts" who are telling you to ignore what you can see with your own eyes and trust the police to investigate their own. Basically accepting things and maintaining the status quo because you feel safe and it hasn't happened to you and yours yet.
The last name on my list....
Mary Knowlton
Shot by Punta Gorda Florida Police officer Lee Coel while roleplaying the part of the bad guy at a Citizens Police Academy "Shoot, Don't Shoot" demonstration. Now this at first sounds like a unfortunate and sad accident so I am going to explicate it further.
1 ) Officer Coel is a K9 officer with the PGPD who just two months prior was involved in an excessive force incident where he had his police K9 maul a drunk man at a traffic stop to the point that the dog actualy ATE LARGE PORTION OF THE MANS TRICEP MUSCLE. The man was on his knees and not any physical danger to Officer Coel but Coel gave repeated commands for the K9 to re-bite the man. Coel was cleared of wrong doing by the department cleared back to duty. Civil litigation is pending and most lawyers here in Florida agree its going to cost the taxpayers in Punta Gorda hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
2 ) Officer Coel's record is spotty at best. He has his arrests thrown out about 1/3 of the time for procedural errors like chain of custody errors and illegal searches.
3 ) PGPD is not the only police force Coel has worked for. He worked for Miramar Florida, a city in the Miami-Dade metro area. He was fired from Miramar because he did not successfully complete the FTO/Probationary period because he had numerous excessive force incidents.
4 ) The shooting of Mrs Knowlton happened because Officer Coel did not check to insure that the weapon he was using in the shoot, don't shoot drill was indeed loaded with blanks.
Punta Gorda Police department hired another departments disciplinary cast off when clearly Officer Coel lacked the mental capacity and temperament for work in law enforcement. This happens a lot all over the country where bad cops are fired or allowed to resign and then hired by another agency. That is a problem and its just one among many and they all need to be addressed. Instead of just accepting it we need to open up about it and find a way to make our police officers and police departments better. No it isn't a racism thing it is a burgeoning tyranny thing.
