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Lucas
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Steelrails
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| Shooting a person in the leg is not easy. Go and shoot some handguns and see how well you do aiming at a leg. You need A LOT of practice. And mist beat cops would be better off going to procedural training or crime scene integrity training than spending hours at the gun range. |
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Kepler
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Another black man shot near Ferguson |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729174/BREAKING-NEWS-Police-officer-shoots-dead-suspect-St-Louis.html
Why not shoot him in the leg? |
"Part of the problem of asking cops to shoot to wound is the lower statistical likelihood of actually hitting a suspect in the arms or legs. The Omaha, Nebraska, Police Department notes that because armed encounters are rarely with a stationary suspect, expecting officers to shoot a suspect's arms or legs is 'not feasible nor is it realistic.'
"Police officers are trained to fire at the center mass (the torso), which both increases the odds of subduing a deadly threat and decreases the likelihood of hitting innocent bystanders."
http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2014/08/why-dont-police-shoot-to-wound.html
Police are also taught the 21 foot rule: an attacker armed with a knife can cover a distance of about 21 feet in 1.5 seconds. They don't have time to carefully aim their gun at an arm or leg of a rapidly advancing attacker. |
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Smithington
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The VAST majority of black males shot dead in America are shot by other black males. This issue is in need of more urgent attention that the shooting of a lone black male by a white police officer. |
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Lucas
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| The VAST majority of black males shot dead in America are shot by other black males. This issue is in need of more urgent attention that the shooting of a lone black male by a white police officer. |
Change the subject, quickly! |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Smithington wrote: |
| The VAST majority of black males shot dead in America are shot by other black males. This issue is in need of more urgent attention that the shooting of a lone black male by a white police officer. |
Change the subject, quickly! |
Lol, seriously. Yep, nothing to see here folks! All is a-ok in the usa when it comes to police and race relations! |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| The VAST majority of black males shot dead in America are shot by other black males. This issue is in need of more urgent attention that the shooting of a lone black male by a white police officer. |
Black people are not ignoring black-on-black crime |
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Titus
Joined: 19 May 2012
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Smithington wrote: |
| The VAST majority of black males shot dead in America are shot by other black males. This issue is in need of more urgent attention that the shooting of a lone black male by a white police officer. |
Change the subject, quickly! |
nah, that's pretty relevant. Trouble follows them. |
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Titus
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KimchiNinja
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