It sucks James that the liberals have cracked down so much on you guys where police are always getting sued or getting fired for using “excessive force”. I don’t like to hurt people anymore than anybody else when it’s not necessary but if your life is being threatened then you guys should have every bit as much of a right to defend yourselves as we civilians without fear of repercussions. It pisses me off when I always hear of cops being suspended with or without pay “pending investigation” because they had to shoot somebody who was trying to kill them or threatening them with a weapon. I mean you have a split second to make a decision under the stress of such situations and you make the wrong one and your dead but on the other hand if you make the other choice your job or even freedom is in jeopardy. It’s rediculous these days how criminal suspects have more rights than officers do and the second police have to use force to arrest a suspect who’s fighting them or even simply defending their own life people start screaming police brutality. All you have to do is put yourself in that officer’s shoes and imagine yourself in the situation he or she was in at the time and would you have acted any differently with only milliseconds to decide to do whatever it is you need to do. The point is if people would cooperate with police and not try to fight or resist them and sure as hell not pull a weapon on them they wouldn’t have anything to worry about. Nobody whens when people try to fight or flee from police if you think you’ve been wrongly arrested or charged the time to fight it is in court not on the streets.
