PureX
Well-known member
You are right.I would teach my kid before they ever turned 16 to have your license and insurance (I have never been asked for registration, they can run that).
I would tell my kid to keep their hands visible, don't move around, turn off the radio and do everything the officer tells you. So now I blame the parents, I just wanna blame things. I'll go to my grave believing the officer should have handled the WHOLE thing differently, he's the adult.
And kids often don't do what we'd hope they do, and what we've taught them to do. But that doesn't mean they deserve to die for it.
In almost all these unreasonable shootings that we are now being made aware of thanks to camera phones and the internet, a common theme seems to be apparent. Cops are taught to "take control" of the situation, immediately, and to keep control of it. Which is understandable. But it is this insistence on complete control that is causing the cops to overreact to any perceived 'disobedience' on the part of the public. And a lot of people are being beaten and killed by cops because of this.
Now that we have been seeing the results of this training protocol, I think we need to seriously reassess it, and apply some means of reasonable measured response when a citizen does not immediately comply with an officer's request, or when they are rude, belligerent, paranoid, or whatever. Because none of these behaviors warrant death, or a beating.