Militarization of the police wouldn't be necessary if they weren't in a war zone with AR-15's at any given time among the American people.
No one is taking helmets away from people or police officers. It is a false narrative. Kevlar (click here) is available on the open market and any police officer can purchase it without a great deal of cost. There is no removing protective head gear. There isn't anything special about it. It can be purchased at any time.
Police want the guns off the street.
This young officer in this article below is called police out of control. It didn't take an angry young man with a vengeance for whatever reason; it took a self-righteous officer with a Daddy in power to kill an unarmed man.
There are two issues here. The guns in the American neighborhoods and police out of control. One does not justify the other. The Prosecutor probably thought looking at the body cam was going to be routine, but, at least he followed his ethnics and carried out a check to be sure this was just routine. What did the prosecutor find? Wrongful death of an unarmed man. It wasn't illegal to be drunk in a hotel room. What did they do in Arizona; demand to look at the check in journal at the hotel's front desk? Just an educated guess.
March 17, 2016
Daniel Shaver may have had a few drinks (click here) in him when he was ordered out of his Arizona hotel room at gunpoint by a group of six screaming police officers last January.
The Mesa police officers were barking all kinds of orders; each one with a different demand, telling him to get down on his hands and knees and crawl towards them, to place his hands over his head, to sit on the floor and cross his legs in front of him.
The traveling businessman was trying to comply, but he was confused by their contradictory demands. The fact that he had been drinking with friends that evening did not help.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Shaver reportedly pleaded as he lifted his hands up, then down again.
But then one cop did, shooting him five times with an AR-15 rifle inscribed with the words “You’re Fucked.”
It was Philip “Mitch” Braisford’s personal gun, which he had personally inscribed, and it offered a glimpse into his personality.
Naturally, the 25-year-old Mesa police officer claimed he was in fear for his life, which was enough for internal affairs to find no wrongdoing on his part; the same investigative unit where his father had recently retired from as a lieutenant after working 19 years in the department....
No one is taking helmets away from people or police officers. It is a false narrative. Kevlar (click here) is available on the open market and any police officer can purchase it without a great deal of cost. There is no removing protective head gear. There isn't anything special about it. It can be purchased at any time.
Police want the guns off the street.
This young officer in this article below is called police out of control. It didn't take an angry young man with a vengeance for whatever reason; it took a self-righteous officer with a Daddy in power to kill an unarmed man.
There are two issues here. The guns in the American neighborhoods and police out of control. One does not justify the other. The Prosecutor probably thought looking at the body cam was going to be routine, but, at least he followed his ethnics and carried out a check to be sure this was just routine. What did the prosecutor find? Wrongful death of an unarmed man. It wasn't illegal to be drunk in a hotel room. What did they do in Arizona; demand to look at the check in journal at the hotel's front desk? Just an educated guess.
March 17, 2016
Daniel Shaver may have had a few drinks (click here) in him when he was ordered out of his Arizona hotel room at gunpoint by a group of six screaming police officers last January.
The Mesa police officers were barking all kinds of orders; each one with a different demand, telling him to get down on his hands and knees and crawl towards them, to place his hands over his head, to sit on the floor and cross his legs in front of him.
The traveling businessman was trying to comply, but he was confused by their contradictory demands. The fact that he had been drinking with friends that evening did not help.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Shaver reportedly pleaded as he lifted his hands up, then down again.
But then one cop did, shooting him five times with an AR-15 rifle inscribed with the words “You’re Fucked.”
It was Philip “Mitch” Braisford’s personal gun, which he had personally inscribed, and it offered a glimpse into his personality.
Naturally, the 25-year-old Mesa police officer claimed he was in fear for his life, which was enough for internal affairs to find no wrongdoing on his part; the same investigative unit where his father had recently retired from as a lieutenant after working 19 years in the department....
