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BamaD -> RE: Another cop shooting of "unarmed" teen. (1/30/2015 1:40:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: joether
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
I thought it was an attempted vehicular homicide thread. <GRIN>
Actually my motive was not so much about guns as the knee jerk reaction many people have when, regardless of the situation they assume the police had to be wrong.
I once had a course in college entitled "Labor Unions". As you might imagine, the nature of the course was about the American unions. The creation, adaptations, and history. Including case studies on various current (at the time) problems facing unions and management. I went to a liberal college that was very politically conservative (yeah, try to understand that one....). The professor was in the unions for about thirty years, and so I figured this would be quite an interesting class to learn from. Not often in business schools do the students see and hear the perspective of things from the union side.
The professor asks everyone to take a piece of paper out and answer the following question on it: "During a dispute between a Union and the Management; whom do you tend to side with initially?" The papers were passed up to him. Nineteen votes for 'management', one for 'union'. And mine: "It depends on the circumstances, events, history, and actions between the two sides. Both sides could be right or wrong. But making a snap decision based on no actual evidence or information would mean I might be biased towards one or the other. And the side I'm initially biased to, might have one or more really good points."
Like with that class, I approach this topic in a neutral stance. The gathered information does not point to the cops failing in their duty nor being 'in the wrong'. Information is limited. That is why good police work would call for proper investigating of facts. Interviewing any eyewitnesses, observing the scene, looking for past histories of everyone involved and maybe 'gut instincts' to put a proper picture together. The whole thing should go to a trial regardless. Allows a judge and maybe a jury to decide things based on the information gathered.
Some threads had provided much in the way of information to start a discussion. This one seems really absent of information. Or at least the informaiton I've seen so far.
It is only absent information which makes the cops look bad.
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