KCFlyer
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delldude said:
The issue is that police, when "confronted" with some who does not want to comply with a lawful order will usually resort to tazing, cuffing, forcing to the ground or shooting - at least when it is a black male. I attended the same training that the cop in that "so what" video attended. Wish I had the clip they showed of this same guy discussing a guy who "did not want to comply with lawful orders". In it - he had to interview the suspect to get information on the bust. He asked (ordered) him to sit on the sofa to discuss it. The guy refused. Whoops....he's not complying with the lawful orders from a cop. Which I suppose gave the cop every right to throw him on the sofa or cuff him and force him to sit. After all...if he'd just do what the cop asked, we could avoid all this. But the cop didn't do that. He's dealing with a "non compliant suspect" here...so he tried to DE-escalate the situation by explaining why it would be better and faster for both of them if he'd just sit down. He still refused. Damn...doesn't this idiot know that he is just setting himself up to be tazed by not doing what the officer was telling him to do? Instead of tazing him or forcing him, the cop tried one more thing - he ASKED him - why do you refuse to sit down? And the guy said it was because he recently had knee surgery and couldn't bend his knee to sit. Yeah...we can blame the victim for not just saying "I can't sit down because I can't bend my knee"...but I guess when your door is busted down with a battering ram, you might be a wee tad defensive and borderline aggressive. But because the cop didn't taze, shot, shove cuff or push the "perp"...he as able to say "would you sit if we got a chair for you to prop your leg on". And they did. No shooting, tazing or kicking ass. Took all of 1 minute to avoid a messy situation. But the effort was made by the COP...which in might earn the cops a bit of respect.
