BULLDOG
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People think cops have elite hand to hand fighting skills or something. They dont. If they're lucky they get some basic boxing and grapplint trainint in the academy. ...skills they lose within a year if they dont keep training.
The people bitching about this...are mostly people who have never been in a real violent fight. They dont understand what its like fighting a real man...who may want to kill you. Not a school yard scrap over a girl. A life or possibly death fight with a violent felon...armed or not.
On a side.note...most people who get stabbed in a fight never see the knife. They usually say they thought it was just a punch until they saw all the blood.
So...cops could wrestle and box with these thugs. But why risk it?
Because that is their job. Shoot first and ask questions later isn't part of their job description. I know cops have a hard job, and they sometimes have to do what ever it takes, including killing somebody. Most cops are great, but the ones who aren't are giving them all a bad name.
So was the Mike Brown shooting justified?
Just trying to get a view into your perspective.
That is a complex decision. Of course it has been determined by people who know much more about the situation than me that the shooting was justified. I accept their decision. However, I have to wonder if the history of police abuse of power in Ferguson didn't have some impact on Brown's behavior. A better relationship between the police and the public would have probably brought about a much different outcome. The police had as much to do with that as anyone else. Their job is to protect and serve, not to be an occupying army.