So if the cops acted reasonably because they were fed a unverifiable load of crap over the phone, what does that mean for us all?
I am dead serious here- if the cops have no ability or reason to validate a message that has such severe repercussions and effectiveness, consider the implications in a political context- this is about as consequence free as an assassination gets.
I think that cop was trigger happy or had buck fever- and have reason to believe, based on many comments by police officers, that the current training tends to reinforce the "don't hesitate, shoot first, make sure you come home at the end of your shift" mentality.
The thing about this that really bugs me, and I suspect bugs the others who are upset, is that there was NO other indications- no shots, no neighbors calling, , no nothing to indicate there was really any bad stuff going on. None. No actions on the part of the victim, either.
You guys supporting the position of the cops keep bringing up how everybody condemned the police because of their lack of speed in responding to other shooting- but almost every one I can recall, there was a definite situation going on, and they knew i. Nobody claimed at Columbine or Orlando that they had any question about the general situation- It was pretty damned clear there was some bad stuff going on.
One of the best comments about this I have read was by a guy who trained entry teams in Iraq. He said they got a lot of calls by disgruntled neighbors or people who has a feud with others, saying Mr X was a terrorist bad guy, hoping he would get taken out by the raid team. He said the Army had spent a ton of money and time trying to resolve the issue and largely failed- his comment was. "once the team starts rolling it is very very hard to keep them from shooting someone, or words to that effect.