a sprinkler nozzle that at 40-50ft away looks like a weapon, yes!
I would trust those two websites about as much as i trust my president, zip.
I bet you're right!
It is indeed always wrong when innocent people get killed, but this guy was not innocent... Innocent would be a kid playing with a water hose nozzle and not knowing any better. This was an adult who not only was playing with a water hose nozzle as if pretending it to be a weapon, but he also... By cop, and witness accounts... Aimed it at the officers.
Hey, you got 8 cops, each cop is protecting the next... 8 shots seems rather normal, and certainly effective in stopping the threat.
Yeah really, who is dumb enough to believe this guy is gonna water his friends lawn, while drunk? And indeed even if they weren't at my front door, if i saw that object pointed at me from a distance of 25-40ft... I'd think it was a gun and immediately take cover and fire. It's stupidity that got him killed, not the police.
Unarmed in who's opinion? He could've carved a handgun out of wood, painted it to look realistic, and then pointed it... Same difference, he pointed an object that looked extremely close to real gun at officers, he got shot... As to be expected.
I've
wanted to be a lot of things in my life, a ganja farmer, a truck driver, train engineer, astronaut, marine biologist, so what is wrong with wanting to be a cop?
Many folks on this forum have admitted such and that's a good thing... Show's that we're getting more like minded cannabis friendly folks out there in uniform... That's one of the reasons i
wanted to be a cop, to try and piece together a good relationship between cops and cannabis users...
And i'm so glad you've got the eagle eye to see from a distance that the object in the picture i posted a few pages back is a weapon, because to me and everyone i've received rep from in reference to this thread have said that from a distance, as the cops were, that it looks like a handguns, more specifically a crappy russian handgun imo but a handgun none-the-less.
Again, unarmed in your opinion... In my opinion he was armed as he was making the motions and did, as stories go, intend for the nozzle to be construed as a handgun.
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down... That's my motto! Stick with me baby.
And who's to say any different? Who's to say they're lying?
They had to take cover in a house, obviously they validated the threat and just guessing on this, but once they tried approaching he probably swung around with that nozzle extended in his hand and once you do that, you're getting shot... No time to yell anything when someone is swinging around and about to draw on you with what you perceive (due to distance) is a weapon.
You know, i tried to make myself feel what it would be like if that was my dad... And honestly, if the story is how it's put in all the newspapers and cops account... I would be mad, at my father. The cops thought their lives were in danger and took appropriate action.
Oh he's referring to me... I often get shit on the forums for sticking up for law enforcement, due to the fact that i do indeed have a great deal of respect for those men and women who are fighting wars in our country on the streets... As our soldiers do overseas.
Police officers deal with a lot of shit, more than anyone in this thread could imagine... Such as a baby cooked in a microwave, dui crashes involving fatalities, murderers, rapists... All kinds of criminals, and police deal with these people personally yet have to hold their own feelings and emotions in when on scene. If that pressure was put on any of the many cop haters in this thread, i am more than sure they'd break down inside... However most police officers take the shit and go back out the next day, ready to protect any civilian who's life is in danger, or ready to save a civilians life that is in danger.
As a cannabis user, i think it's even more important to interact with police on a friendly level because of the way it can shift an officer's point of view about cannabis users, and hopefully make them think twice about using their discretion when they encounter another person who uses cannabis.
I am not heartless and in the end, yes this man died because of a water hose nozzle... Not a sprinkler, a sprinkler is a long metal tube or a plastic spring loaded too to spray large areas of the lawn, this was a hose attachment that looked almost exactly like a pistol.
I elect this good man for cop of the year!
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and a friendly reminder to those in this thread who generalize about police, you're no better than all the anti-pot critics who generalize that all stoners have fried their brains and sit on the couch all day.
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