To Protect and to Serve II

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Matt2496 said:
Still though, there are better ways of dealing with a knife wielding wheelchair ridden person than shooting him 9 times.
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You mean like just shooting him 8 times?
Seriously though, I sincerely hope that he is sued and never us allowed to wear a badge again.
Walmart will likely get sued also for employing him. City might also face a suit.
Very bad situation fir a lot of people.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
This story is missing something. First it says he was attempting to leave then he was entering the garden section. There is a disconnect in the information.
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He had left Walmart and was attempting to enter Lowe’s. LEO went rogue.

Remington was working a security detail at Walmart on Monday night when an employee alerted him that a customer in a motorized wheelchair had stolen a toolbox.

Remington and the employee followed the customer, identified as Richard Lee Richards, in the store parking lot.

The employee said Richards was asked to provide a receipt for the toolbox. Richards allegedly pulled out a knife and said" "Here's your receipt," Magnus said, and he continued moving toward a Lowe's home improvement store.
 
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VolFaninFla said:
He had left Walmart and was attempting to enter Lowe’s. LEO went rogue.

Remington was working a security detail at Walmart on Monday night when an employee alerted him that a customer in a motorized wheelchair had stolen a toolbox.

Remington and the employee followed the customer, identified as Richard Lee Richards, in the store parking lot.

The employee said Richards was asked to provide a receipt for the toolbox. Richards allegedly pulled out a knife and said" "Here's your receipt," Magnus said, and he continued moving toward a Lowe's home improvement store.
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Gotcha. My miss.
 
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The deputy must have felt his life was in imminent danger from the knife wielding 61 year old in a wheelchair to shoot him 9 times in his back and side.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
A homeowner doing the same to an intruder after waking up from sleep at 3:00 wouldn't have been given the same leniency.
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No doubt. I know I'm terrified of some random guy in a wheelchair breaking into my house after he climbs the stairs and brandishes a knife as he's driving away from me.
 
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These cases of police brutality are happening almost every week. Something needs to change regarding policing in this country, I know that much.

Maybe it’s a training issue. However, I think the job attracts some of a certain kind of person (bullies) and no amount of training will change that. There needs to be a way to weed out the psychopaths in the application process.

With that said, the vast majority of cops are good, but these cases are happening far too often.
 
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Matt2496 said:
These cases of police brutality are happening almost every week. Something needs to change regarding policing in this country, I know that much.

Maybe it’s a training issue. However, I think the job attracts some of a certain kind of person (bullies) and no amount of training will change that. There needs to be a way to weed out the psychopaths in the application process.

With that said, the vast majority of cops are good, but these cases are happening far too often.
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With regards to the people attracted to the job, I've thought this for a while. Either they are bullies or order followers, mostly.You give these guys a law or mandate to enforce and they will enforce the hell out of it with extreme measures, if given that option.

With regards to the "good" cops, I think those guys are pressured into following the code and can't survive in a corrupt police system. It also doesn't help that not only do the good cops not hold cops accountable, but you have the courts, DAs/prosecutors and sycophant cop loving conservatives giving them a pass.

In a way, just like COVID and critical race theory was necessary to wake up the natives, I'm almost thinking we need one of these situations where a cop lover is handcuffed and fleeced of his rights by the county deputy over some red flag law.
 
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