Friday, July 6, 2007

Trial starts for ex-deputy who shot Iraq vet ( Response)


So this is another story that has caught my eye. this caught my eye for two main reasons, the first being that this was a soldier from Iraq and that the cop was black. Not to sound stereotypically or racist but the first thing that came to mind was bro. was going to jail. I'm black to but come on a solider that has fought in the war. i thought that that was going to be all that the jury and that the cop was dead. and you know that if he went to jail he was going into a place where he was gonna be harassed by the inmates. but as usual the media proves me wrong this story in my opinion got so much attention that it caused the jury to think past the video that was presented to them. they looked at the actual facts that this soldier was not following the commands given to him by the officer, that even before the video was taped that there was a car chase and the soldier was not listening to any of the directions given to him by the officer which resulted in his death. I can see that the family is grieving yet, really if you can not trust the police to protect you regardless of what you do how much you get paid then really is America safe. i think not. as a solider you should if another human should know that if given a directive to stop doing what ever your doing it then HELLO STOP. the fact that he was reaching into his pocket for what the officer thought to be a gun. If we train officers to go on instant and if they feel their life or the life's of others is in danger they are trained to act. When they act if it ends in death then let it be, if the officer feels threatened. when the person is told several times to stop and they don't the officer has the right to do what he / she learned. then when will we be safe, who can the people depend on to keep them safe.

until the next time remember
Im not Bossy Im just Opinionated

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