In the even that he is fired, he'll find a job in another department in no time.
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Arkansas cop says black man has a gun until he realizes he's on Facebook live
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Get the fuck out of here, young black men are being murdered in this country by cops like this.
Still a bad look especially because he didn't have the gun where the cop said it was. If you can't deal with someone moving to do the command you told them to do, you shouldn't be a fucking cop, period. Additionally, owning a gun is legal so I am unsure how the cop could be right in any circumstance here.
You know things are fucked up when the unarmed guy is calmer than the supposed trained professional pointing a gun at him. He was very lucky to get out of that alive.
Not when you're a minority.
Nothing will happen to this cop. At the same time a lot of "not all cops" bullshit. We're at a point where even the supposedly good cops are complicit because non of them motherfuckers are pushing hard for strong reforms in their union.
For the record, he had a gun. Does no one read the description in the video?
Yep, and I'm only half hispanic and pass for white! My step-father (black) was subject to way more of this shit than I'll ever be comfortable living with. We road tripped from South Carolina to Florida once, and he got pulled from the car and thrown against the hood because he "fit the description of a perp"...come to find out the guy they were looking for was 6'3", had long dreadlocks, and gold teeth. My Step-father is 5'10", has a crew cut, and pearly whites. I was like 16, couldn't do shit but watch and hope they didn't shoot him for "resisting". Fucking terrifying.
Stop trying to provide a critique for a situation or "it could've gone better if the guy did this." The only thing that can be judged here is the cop's absurdity. Note there have been multiple times where POC have complied with cops and gotten shot anyway. So shut up instead of "WElL aCtuaLLY TheY shOuLD've JUsT DOnE thIS."
I updated my comment when I realized i wasn't clear. He did have a gun but it was not reachable from his position in the car from the article I read. So the cop is still in the wrong and owning a gun and carrying it is legal. Seems like if he was really concerned he would've asked him to step out of the car versus pointing a gun in his face.
"Put your hands up!"
"Turn off your car!"
Contradicting orders like this is why people get shot. People quick to point out "just do what the cop asks". A man was ordered to put his hands up and crawl to the officer (while he was on his back) and was shot as soon as he put his and on the ground to crawl.
"Turn off your car!"
Contradicting orders like this is why people get shot. People quick to point out "just do what the cop asks". A man was ordered to put his hands up and crawl to the officer (while he was on his back) and was shot as soon as he put his and on the ground to crawl.
It is when the coronary they get from eating too many donuts is considering "dying in the line of duty".
You think I'm joking but I'm not. Police unions count any death while on duty as dying in the line of duty to inflate death statistics.
With all due respect.....
Go away from this topic and post in it, or other bad cops topics, again.
That's largely irrelevant though. Owning a gun isn't illegal. Possessing a fire arm isn't punishable by death. The gun was drawn before the cop ever realized there was a fire arm in the vehicle. If police officers cannot handle seeing firearms w/out thinking they'll need to execute someone, maybe it's time for us all to collectively reconsider the 2nd Amendment (we won't).
The cop was not aware of this nor was the gun within reach of the ignition. You're essentially arguing
"Well he was no angel."
Note, he was actually complying with the gun laws of arkansas by not having it in the front of the car
Some? Nigga, please. I guarandamnTEE, a LOT of first thoughts was "he's being so disrespectful".
Some are being slick with the
Every black person or minority with slightly brown skin must equip their smartphone with easy shortcuts to streaming/video recording actions (via Siri/Google Ass/etc), because by existing, they are living with a target on their back. It's unfortunate, but necessary.
Truitt himself says the officer spotted his AR-15 on the backseat of his car.
The cop was DEFINITELY IN THE WRONG from start to finish. However I want the facts to be clear because the video has a pretty detailed description of the events (and someone also posted a news article) yet a lot of people don't seem to have read it.
I can't believe there's even an argument here.
Us black people can't do SHIT. According to some of y'all, even recording (and saving my own life, mind you) is wrong and we should just follow the nice police officer's orders and nothing bad will happen.
Some of you in this thread are showing glimpses of your final form. I know who to ignore for here on out.
Us black people can't do SHIT. According to some of y'all, even recording (and saving my own life, mind you) is wrong and we should just follow the nice police officer's orders and nothing bad will happen.
Some of you in this thread are showing glimpses of your final form. I know who to ignore for here on out.
Incredible how calm the victim is, I'd be shitting myself panicking. And fuck that cop, really. Even though I've been seeing shit like that quite often through these boards, it's still hard to comprehend how encountering police can be one of the most frightening and dangerous things for a person.
If the cop is 100% in the wrong you must think there's 200% of wrong here based on your posts.
You ever stop to ask yourself why you're holding civilians to a higher standard than police? Why civilians are expected to stay calm while police can be in any emotional state they feel like despite being the one with all the power?
The guy is alive, can you really tell me that if he had handled the situation any other way he wouldn't be dead? Like whatever reaction other than filming and doing what he did has a 100% probability of he not being killed by a bloodlusted cop?
yo if a cop has a gun on me and says "he's got a gun", I'm not moving my hands for the rest of the week
fuck that
The guy was literally reaching for ignition. The cop very clearly didn't see the firearm. It was very clearly a case of
*Cop orders minority to do something*
*Minority complies*
*Cop uses movement as an excuse to shoot, later saying he felt threatened*
The cop already had a gun out for no reason. Cop training in the US is a huge joke and this is yet another example of that being true, and not the only example that we could refer to today. Imma be blunt so for the stupid people:
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THE COPS LATER FIND OUT THAT THE VICTIM DID IN FACT HAVE A GUN, WHEN THEY WERE UNAWARE AND PREPARED TO SHOOT ANYWAY EVEN AFTER ASKING HIM TO DO A SPECIFIC THING.
Stop policing how minorities should react in this situation.
American cops continue to be the absolute worst.
You're either hilariously naive or straight up trolling.
Probably more like AACAB.
Never have I seen a case of a police officer in my country acting the way they do in America. That behavior would be bizarre to anyone here, that they would just walk up to someone, who has not committed any crimes, and point their gun to their face, threatening to kill them.
You're either hilariously naive or straight up trolling.
Probably more like AACAB.
Never have I seen a case of a police officer in my country acting the way they do in America. That behavior would be bizarre to anyone here, that they would just walk up to someone, who has not committed any crimes, and point their gun to their face, threatening to kill them.
Just to get this out of the way:
Then they would've got him for turning his car into a weapon for leaving the vehicle without putting it in park.
It looked like he got yanked out of the car. Wonder if someone did get it into park before it started rolling off.
The police also did not charge the victim with any gun-related charges, which speaks pretty loudly to who was in the wrong here.
Let's not try to downplay this by trying to back flip until you land on a justified excuse.
What the cop did was wrong.
He probably would've been shot had he not been filming this exchange.
The cop said turn the car off so he could justify shooting him by saying the guy was reaching for a gun. He literally tried that bullshit on camera and was caught red handed.
While it's true that he saw the firearm in the backseat, this guy wasn't reaching anywhere near it when the officer shouted gun and the officer did have his gun pulled before even approaching the car.
Quite literally less than a second passes between
*Shut the car off*
*Guy moves to shut car off*
Cop:HE'S GOT A GUN *Points gun*
I would say that there genuinely couldn't be a more overt situation where a cop is very clearly out for blood, but unfortunately this is the United States of America and I'd be wrong. Like I said, arguing "well he DID have a gun."="He was no angel," which for many members here and in the US in general is the default response whenever a minority is threatened or killed by US police.
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Here's the keeping it real.
UNTIL these bastards fear retaliation.
I.e they kill a black guy unarmed, and that person's family and friends come after them and straight up kill them in revenge? Until they fear THAT, nothing will change.
Cops will have to literally die by the hundreds in revenge killings until they get it.
UNTIL these bastards fear retaliation.
I.e they kill a black guy unarmed, and that person's family and friends come after them and straight up kill them in revenge? Until they fear THAT, nothing will change.
Cops will have to literally die by the hundreds in revenge killings until they get it.
Edit: Sorry Squarehard, didn't mean to quote you.
I know I just figured that's where the argument was going so I thought I'd head it off and just post it right off.
I know I just figured that's where the argument was going so I thought I'd head it off and just post it right off.
Of all the options available to him, he immediately chooses lethal force and keeps his firearm on the guy almost the entire time?? For those that don't know, this isn't the movies or TV where the cop would have to rack and chamber a round and then flick the safety off. He's already got a round in the chamber with only a trigger pull between life and death. It's fucking scary. Try to imagine being the driver with a firearm aimed at your head and chest with a live round in the chamber ready to kill you.
Seeing the other cops doing nothing to help deescalate the situation was incredibly disappointing too, like it's just another day of the week going straight to lethal force on a black driver.
Seeing the other cops doing nothing to help deescalate the situation was incredibly disappointing too, like it's just another day of the week going straight to lethal force on a black driver.
