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  1. John Lawrence
    You got a stat on that last one? Because that is shocking to me. But arrests is not the same as prison. Personal use amounts of drugs is not getting someone a long prison term. Plenty of people get arrested for a little bit of weed and then get right out. I want to know how many people are in prison for drug offenses for mere possession.
  2. John Lawrence
    There was a justification for a first shutdown. The virus was a great unknown. Now we have the data necessary to manage our way around it. It's not going away, and we're not in danger of overwhelming any healthcare systems. We can quickly add beds if needed. Like the hospital at NRG that never got used. There is going to be bigger spikes in states that have had low death rates as the virus just has not burned through yet. California is spiking and has had pretty significant lockdowns in place.
  3. John Lawrence
    As long as you are not out there trying to earn a living, you're good.
  4. John Lawrence
    Only 2 percent of black males are in prison. It does not account for a significant percentage of absentee dads. Citing drug use by race is very misleading. People in prison for drugs are almost always dealers. Not users. Because the dealers are the ones with the weight dealers are the ones targeted. Cops target Avon and Marlo, not Bubbles.
  5. John Lawrence
    Órale, vatinx!
  6. John Lawrence
    We have a long, long way to go to catch either Spain or Italy in per capita deaths.
  7. John Lawrence
    He should have dropped the taser if he just wanted to run away. He didn’t. He chose to point it and shoot it at a cop. Most tasers used these days are capable of multiple shots, by the way.
  8. John Lawrence
    Nice rig.
  9. John Lawrence
    You sure that taser was single deployment? What’s the basis for that?
  10. John Lawrence
    I am not sure which incidences you are referring to, but for certain some, yes. But certainly not all. Tear gas and rubber bullets are allowed to stop rioting. Some peaceful protesters will get caught as collateral damage. They would be wise to stay far away from rioting and looting while protesting peacefully. And in certain circumstances force is justified against peaceful protesters who are disobeying lawful orders. That is a right that governments grant law enforcement. Whether the force is excessive will be a case-by-case basis. I have seen some that was clearly unjustified. Tear gassing and firing rubber bullets at people on their own private property. If they responded with gunfire, I would vote to acquit.
  11. John Lawrence
    Yes. If he attacked them without justification with rubber bullets and tear gas while resisting a lawful arrest, absolutely. And if someone shoots rubber bullets and tear gas at your without legal justification and you shoot them to stop them from doing so, it is also justified.
  12. John Lawrence
    So is a baton. Cops all around the world use them, even in genteel Europe. If you attack someone with a baton and they shoot you, it is justified. If you attack a cop with your hands and they crack you over the head with a baton, that is also justified. If a cop cracks you over the head with a baton or tazes you for talking shit or being in contempt of cop, that is not justified. This person attacked the cops without justification. He was wrestling with armed officers and creating a dangerous situation. That justified them using their tasers, as a less lethal option than shooting them. Once he took the taser and attacked them with it, him getting shot was justified. This is not a difficult or particularly close case.
  13. John Lawrence
    A taser is a weapon, in the way a knife, a bat, a baton, a crowbar, a gun, a replicate gun, or a shard of glass are all legitimate weapons. The moment you choose to come after someone with a weapon, you get kicked out of the pity party, and risk serious injury and death.
  14. John Lawrence
    A taser is a weapon. In fact, there have been over a 1000 deaths from tasers in this country. Reuters tracks it since the early 2000s. Currently sitting at 1,081. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-taser-database/ And the standard is not "imminent danger of deadly force". Lethal force can be used if the individual has a reasonable belief it is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury. If someone starts swinging a baseball bat at your knee, you are in no imminent danger of death. You can still shoot their ass to stop them from doing it.
  15. John Lawrence
    Shooting was the fourth result. First was talking to him. Second was wrestling on the ground when he resisted arrest and attacked the officer. Third was attempting to taze him. Fourth was shooting him after he disarmed a cop with a taser, pointed it at him, and shot it at him. These fuckers aren't John Wick. You point and discharge a taser at an armed cop (or anyone) and get shot in return, tough fucking shit.
  16. John Lawrence
    I don't know there answer, but I have seen no one dispute this.
  17. John Lawrence
    "Patrolling Berchtesgaden is the same as New Orleans"
  18. John Lawrence
    Cops should use them if they have a reasonable fear of serious bodily injury. It is less lethal force. I think they use them too often, actually. This was not one of those cases. Cops are armed with pistols. If a suspect is wrestling on the ground with a cop, that gets me there and a taser is justified. Because a suspect willing to do that risks disarming and shooting the cop. I have also seen cops taze people just for talking shit and refusing to comply with orders. That is not appropriate.
  19. John Lawrence
    If someone points a taser at you and threatens to shoot you with it and you are armed, do you think you have the right to shoot them to stop them from doing so? And what is the charge under Texas law for walking up to someone and tazing them?
  20. John Lawrence
    Those countries do not have guns like we do nor do they have our demographics. If you want to talk about confiscating guns, we can have that talk. I don't see how it is done. But a cop in Sweden and Germany is not facing what our cops face. I don't want our cops wearing tact gear and whipping out machine guns. I want drugs legalized and think it will cure a whole lot of this. But patrolling East St. Louis isn't the same is patrolling Munich, The Hague, or Zurich. And use of force stats by race are meaningless. Males make up 95% of police shootings. Does that mean cops are sexist against males? Or maybe, and I am just spit balling here, males are more likely to resist, point a gun at, and assault cops? 60 year olds don't have force used against them at the rate 18 year olds do either. It isn't due to age discrimination.
  21. John Lawrence
    Works well for pretty much everyone not committing aggravated assault against cops. With a few exceptions like Floyd, Castile, Rice, etc. A handful a year in a country of 350 million. Let me guess, you think Michael Brown was murdered?
  22. John Lawrence
    All the more reason not to commit aggravated assault against someone who is armed.
  23. John Lawrence
    I don’t know what police are trained to do. I do know what the legal standard is for any citizen to use deadly force is. Reasonable fear of serious bodily injury or death. I 100 percent believe this shooting met that standard. Again, if someone walks up to you on the street and points a taser at you in a threatening manor, the law will justify your shooting them dead right there. Had he not pointed the taser at them (even more it appears he shot it at them), they don’t get there on reasonable fear of SBI. Shooting a taser at someone is an attempted aggravated assault in every jurisdiction in this country. You can use lethal force to stop an aggravated assault. From a criminal law standpoint it’s clear to me this was legal.
  24. John Lawrence
    I believe if I walk up and taze your ass, it’s aggravated assault. You can use lethal force to prevent aggravated assault Tasers have killed over 1,000 people in the USA.
  25. John Lawrence
    Being tazed in that situation could pretty easily lead to death or serious bodily injury. I have seen people tazed have their arms drop to their sides and drop like a rock. On pavement that is extremely dangerous. Or the suspect could grab the gun which will be dropped when he is tazed and use it. The guy is dead because he made a series of very bad choices. I am also betting there is more than alcohol on his tox screen.

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