02-12-2015, 04:39 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/12/sho...s-leaders/
I thought this was great. Reading the whole article, I don't think the civil rights guys really completely conceded to the police and still maintained the police are not trained well enough. However they were forced to concede that this backseat driver thing people are doing isn't right and isn't fair.
They didn't go so far as to say police are in the right...but at least they admitted they couldn't do it themselves, and that is a great start. And hopefully the word will get out to the street that these kids need to just do as they're told and get a lawyer later, if necessary.
Quote:t was a split-second decision.
A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the "officer," who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand.
“I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him.
“It all happened so fast," he added. "You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”
I thought this was great. Reading the whole article, I don't think the civil rights guys really completely conceded to the police and still maintained the police are not trained well enough. However they were forced to concede that this backseat driver thing people are doing isn't right and isn't fair.
They didn't go so far as to say police are in the right...but at least they admitted they couldn't do it themselves, and that is a great start. And hopefully the word will get out to the street that these kids need to just do as they're told and get a lawyer later, if necessary.
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