Jeffrey
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Whatever what my department's policies directed me to do.
Angel
If I were a sworn officer I would withhold my duties to my job, weather it be friend, spouse, parent or child, if they broke the law and it was necessary they would be arrested.
If the person was out of control and needed to be arrested to aid in their safety and care they would be handcuffed and restrained - deadly force is not needed in either situation, if the person your trying to wrest is stupid enough to flee or fight then they are the ones assuming the responsibility for any bodily injuries or harm they may receive while trying to be taken into custody. They also are the responsible ones that add to whatever charges were already on them from fleeing, fighting an officer and assault.
Doing anything else different because of political, emotional or financial gain would to endanger myself I to the fact I could also be arrested for not withholding my duties as a peace officer.
Anonymous
There are many variables that come into play. You can call for backup, you can use a taser, you can even rethink whether you "need" to arrest them at that moment. But you definitely do not need to resort immediately to deadly force, especially if the person is now 30 feet away and unarmed.
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Well......... if you're a cop, you're paid to beat the guy up good and get some cuffs on him.
Cops are just a "gang" - like any gang in NY or LA - except cops can never afford to lose a conflict - no matter what. Cops are OUR gang...... and OUR gang better win - every time.
When cops no longer win, then you have Somalia where truckloads of teenagers with machine guns go around and murder people.
Will Powers
You must then force them to comply.
Support on social media and the Salt Lake City area is swelling for an 20-year-old white man who was shot and killed by police last month.
Family and friends of Dillon Taylor say they will continue to hold protests outside state and federal government offices until the authorities answer questions about the shooting, The New York Times reported.
Some demonstrators are linking Taylor’s death to the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen who was fatally shot last month by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, leading to racially charged unrest between residents and police.
Taylor, who is white, was reportedly unarmed when he was shot two times near a 7-Eleven on Aug. 11 after a confrontation with police officers.
The Salt Lake City police chief addressed criticism and the militarization of police in the wake of Taylor’s death.
Dillon Taylor was reportedly unarmed when he was shot two times near a 7-Eleven on Aug. 11 after getting into a confrontation with police officers. (Facebook)
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“The officer involved in this circumstance had a camera on his body, and the entire incident has been captured,” said Chief Chris Burbank, the Epoch Times reported.
Chief Burbank said the officer who killed Taylor was not white, but he didn’t elaborate further.
“Officers should be held to extremely high standards, but that cannot be an impossible standard,” he added.
Taylor’s supporters say his death hasn’t received enough media attention.
“We want answers — we need them,” Aaron Swanenberg, a longtime friend of Taylor, told The New York Times.
For the fourth time in two weeks, demonstrators gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to protest Taylor’s death.
“Somewhere it’s got to stop,” Oscar Ross told the Salt Lake Tribune outside the police station. “There’s going to be backlash. I’m not anti-police … but it’s in the mindset of these officers now: Shoot first and ask questions later.”
Taylor’s aunt, Gina Thayne, told the Tribune: “We have to have justice because no matter what, we’re missing somebody at our dinner tables at night. We have to fix this, and the only way we’re going to be able to fix it is if everybody continues staying together.”