How many currently-employed cops are ticking time bombs like this one?
NY Daily News: Parents of schizophrenic man shot dead by off-duty cop in California Costco say they ‘begged’ for son’s life:
““I told Officer Sanchez not to shoot twice. I even said please,” Paola said Monday, fighting back tears. “I was pleading for my son and our lives, but I was still shot in the back.”
Some people go out into public looking for a fight, looking for an opportunity to bait someone into attacking first in order to get a chance to pull their concealed-carry weapon and later claim self-defense, or “I feared for my life”. Many of these people, who feel an urgent need to hold power over others, become cops, and then proceed to harass the public for the thrill it gives them.
And a question that everyone should be asking but no one does: does every cop really need to be armed to the teeth? Their utility belts are weighed down with a buffet of weapons, is this necessary, especially when they are constantly mingling with the public?
For instance. Four crew-cut cops were in Starbucks earlier at the same time that I was, and all four couldn’t even keep their arms at their sides due to all the needless junk strapped to their belts. Guns, batons, pepper spray, tasers, an array of bulging pockets of expensive, useless trinkets that they don’t need. It creates needless danger for the public, who can’t possibly feel safe when these armored and armed men, who for some bizarre reason wear also their sunglasses indoors.
The cops interacting with the public should not be armed for battle. They shouldn’t believe they are in a ‘battlefield’. Cops in that state of mind will invariably see the public as the enemy.
