2015 Fatal police shootings. Averaging 2 a day for the year.

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I agree and have stated running is a dumbass move in general. My point was that does not justify (don't care about the adrenaline) 'bad things happening". The good/bad guys are also dealing with adrenaline (probably more) and that is not an excuse for their bad decisions. Cops are supposed to be better.

As far as cops 'charging forward', if you go back a read what I said was get a pair of running shoes and call for backup. Sounds like we are in violent agreement here with your young/old cops statement.

If anybody is running, that is not in and of itself ANY indication of guilt for doing something wrong. Does that mean the cop cannot or should not pursue, of course not. What that does mean is that they are NO threat to those they are running from. We are also not talking about running with an AK into a mall here or purposefully aiming at people with a car before that starts coming up. We are also not talking about when in Baileys case they are obvioulsy not running but attacking. Cops have several things the average bad guy does not. These include training, numbers, more numbers if needed, in rare cases heavy hitting numbers (calling out the Guard as in Ferguson), better comms, in many (not all) cases better equipement and finally (as in Bailey's case where a citizen called for backup) the vast majority of us the citizens........ If the populous does not feel it is seen as "THEM". The biggest thing they have though, is time (again not always, but generally). If a guy runs and the cop cannot catch the bad guy, backup comes quickly to support. If the guy gets away, they have a description and may catch them the next day. You can't catch them all. The point is, if a guy is running..... Threat level is zero unless they turn around.... Then this is a different situation.

Jer, I swear you are reading my mind. Well put.

Yup, thats the video. While it is good that charges have been brought and he is fired the concern was how it was originally handled. They started to cover for him and only when the video came out did that change. The issue is what would have happened if there was not video.