Every society has some individuals who have a criminal mind set. The rest of society must be protected from the criminal element. It is the job of the police to enforce our laws. It is the job of the police to protect the rest of society from the criminal element. By definition, criminals do not follow our laws, or respect our laws, or respect our police, and criminals resist all efforts by our police in enforcing our laws. If a police officer encounters resistance from ANYONE while doing his job, that person's resistance is unlawful. To clarify my point, police officers MUST BE ALLOWED to use force in doing their job when they encounter resistance. If the person resisting the officer has no weapon, then the proper force to be used by the police should be to restrain or subdue the person with as little force as is prudent. Everything changes if the person resisting the officer has a weapon. Our police officers have the right to defend themselves when threatened with violence or when attacked. They have the right to defend themselves with the use of deadly force. It is plain stupid to try to say that a police officer has no right to defend himself. It is plain stupid to claim that a police officer has no right to react to the threat of physical harm. In my opinion, if a person threatens a police officer with a weapon, then the police officer should have the right to respond. Hopefully, the police officer is able to respond in a manner which disables the offender rather than with deadly force.
I hear news reports where a black person attacked a police officer and was killed by the officer, and the accusation is routinely made that the killing was racially based. Hogwash! If a person attacks a police officer, the officer has the right to defend himself. I hear news reports that a black person threatens a police officer with a gun and is subsequently killed. The cry of racial killing is immediately trumpeted. Again, hogwash! Let me be clear about this. If a white person attacks a black police officer and is subsequently killed, there is no outcry, but if a black person is killed, regardless of the situation they scream racist! If anyone attacks or threatens a police officer, the police officer is justified in using force. If makes no difference if the offender is white, black, brown, yellow, green, purple, or orange.
All of that being said, I want to say very clearly that any time a police officer shoots someone, the incident MUST BE investigated fully, regardless of the skin color of the person shot. However, Obama's war on the police whereby he accuses every cop of being a racist whenever a black person is shot before there has been even a preliminary investigation is disgusting. Why is Obama trying to instill a hatred of the police into our black population?
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