Quote: (07-07-2016 01:58 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
Most of the people who complain about cops don't understand their basic function. If a person being arrested protests their innocence, that person doesn't understand the basic function of a police officer. And if you watch someone protest their innocence to the point where they get assaulted or killed by police, then you don't understand the basic function of a police officer, either.
A police officer isn't a judge, and isn't a lawyer. He's an individual with IQ between 95 and 110, whose sole purpose is to bring you to jail. Arguing with him cannot possibly work, because he's not a judge and not a lawyer.
In the Alton Sterling video, you can hear Alton protesting his innocence, while in a grappling struggle with the police. So Alton didn't understand what a cop is, and now he's dead.
Never put your hands on a cop. I don't think people get this.
In the past few days, I've heard limousine liberal commentators say "He was only wrestling with the cop -- they didn't need to shoot him!" How far gone is our society that it's OK to "wrestle with a cop" and think he's not going to get angry?
Let's take this out of the realm of cop vs. citizen.
The ONE AND ONLY TIME I was ever called into HR as a newspaper reporter was when some a-hole guy from the graphic design dept. put his hands on me. I instinctively reacted violently. I was in an aisle and he decided to physically "move" me. Without thinking, I swung around and pushed his ass back about ten feet. Luckily, I didn't get fired. I was 24.
But the main point is that I didn't think. I just did. He touched. I freaked out. Funny enough, I am not a big guy at all and was not armed like cops are. Yet my instincts went into overdrive and I was still primed for a fight. This is called "human nature."
Now, transfer this situation to citizen vs. cop. Cops are not machines. They're human like you and me. They get angry like you and me and act on instinct like I did. Putting your hands on them is basically asking for a fight -- or worse. Don't do it.