Number of people killed by the police, US.v UK.

[Defnestor]

Just go in the prone position, don't voice your opinion/concern, and submit and you won't get shot. We are modern Americans and we know how to submit.

"Leave this to me. I'm English, I know how to queue."
-Arthur Dent
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[SMS]

I always thought the solution to all of our problems was to be more like the UK and her subjects…

 

[TenBears]

If people did not do stupid things, they might not get shot by the police.

I agree, those people selling single cigarettes, kids with toy guns, and those scummy homeless guys camping all did stupid things. I'm glad I don't ever make mistakes.

 

[Parks 788]

Yes, we all know it's crowd-sourced. If you think that number is incorrect, please post a citation. It's easy to attack the messenger and not the message.

So, you want us to argue the seriousness of the charge and totally disregard the seriousness of the evidence? Didn't we just have the same thing happen in the national news this week when Harry Reid admitted to lying about Romnie not paying taxes for 10 years. It was the seriousness of the charge hat was important and not the evidence.

Typical Liberal way of presenting "facts".

 

[John6185]

It's really quit simple if one took time to look at a single fact-our thugs are a lot meaner and hateful than their thugs. I support the police, they are a target from the time they put on their uniformed until they take them off and our leading politicians encourage retaliation. If someone pointed a loaded gun at you and their face radiated hate, would you ask them to please put down the gun or would you want to see your family that evening?

 

[chuter]

I agree, those people selling single cigarettes, kids with toy guns, and those scummy homeless guys camping all did stupid things. I'm glad I don't ever make mistakes.

1. it wasn't the selling of single cigarettes that got him choked. He had been in trouble before for the same thing. It was resisting arrest that got him choked.
2. unfortunately, in our current world people freak out and call the police at the sight of anything that resembles a gun, plus young people do shoot other people; so any young person carrying a gun, toy or not, gets the police called for someone waving a gun around in the park, and not dropping it and putting your hands up can get you shot. It's a sad thing.

I'm not saying there was no misconduct in the above two cases, but it's usually more complicated than getting shot for selling a cigarette.

 

[dennishoddy]

1. it wasn't the selling of single cigarettes that got him choked. He had been in trouble before for the same thing. It was resisting arrest that got him choked.
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He died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital.

 

[TenBears]

He died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital.

I thought that was the guy that got killed for not showing his papers at the theater here in Oklahoma ?

 

[dennishoddy]

I thought that was the guy that got killed for not showing his papers at the theater here in Oklahoma ?

Sorry. Coroner showed a heart attack. No throat damage. Independent autopsy show the same.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/19/man-in-chokehold-death-had-no-throat-damage-autopsy/

 

[doctorjj]

It's really quit simple if one took time to look at a single fact-our thugs are a lot meaner and hateful than their thugs. I support the police, they are a target from the time they put on their uniformed until they take them off and our leading politicians encourage retaliation. If someone pointed a loaded gun at you and their face radiated hate, would you ask them to please put down the gun or would you want to see your family that evening?

Police officer isn't even in the top 10 of most dangerous jobs.