Texas Trooper karate kicks rider off his motorcycle
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Riceburner
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All he got was 2 or 3 days off for shooting a guy for a traffic stop??????
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He got the days off for the kick, not for the shooting.....
Either way shooting from a moving car....where did the other bullets go? If he shot before the turn, there were stores, etc. and presumably the possibility of ppl behind his "target". I was trained to be aware of what's behind your target in case you miss or it goes thru.
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He got the days off for the kick, not for the shooting.....
Either way shooting from a moving car....where did the other bullets go? If he shot before the turn, there were stores, etc. and presumably the possibility of ppl behind his "target". I was trained to be aware of what's behind your target in case you miss or it goes thru.
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Its texas the police are required to use their weapons on 90% of interactions with the public..
On a serious note its pretty impressive that the rider stayed on for so long while being shot. I wonder if he didn't feel it still he started to slow.
Riceburner
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it's probably why he finally stopped. It was in his right thigh, so only for his rear brake.
Why kick anyways? the guy was stopped and putting his stand down.
Why kick anyways? the guy was stopped and putting his stand down.
Boots
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A bullet in the leg for 'running a stop sign'. I quote that because he could have either rolled slowly, rolled quickly or full out blew the stop sign.
Regardless, that doesn't warrant a bullet to the leg.
U.S. Police Logic 101: Your running a stop sign was super dangerous, here's a bullet which can be potentially fatal and send you and your bike into another car!
Regardless, that doesn't warrant a bullet to the leg.
U.S. Police Logic 101: Your running a stop sign was super dangerous, here's a bullet which can be potentially fatal and send you and your bike into another car!
Riceburner
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Worse...the vacation was for the kick. The shooting was within grounds.
Like...seriously. He rider was dumb and dangerous.
Police was stupid and dangerous to follow rider at those speeds. In the GTA they pretty much try to let him go. He got ccaught for other violations though, so i guess they really wanted to nail him. But still.. shooting him. Wouldnt it be lame, dying for skipping a stop?
Police was stupid and dangerous to follow rider at those speeds. In the GTA they pretty much try to let him go. He got ccaught for other violations though, so i guess they really wanted to nail him. But still.. shooting him. Wouldnt it be lame, dying for skipping a stop?
It would be dying for refusing to pull over and not for running the stop. Rider's choice. Don't feel the least bit sorry for him or anyone else in the same boat.
"“I knew it was a cop,” Gaydos said later. “I took off, thinking I could easily lose him.” Nearly 40 miles later, however, after a hair-raising chase that hit speeds of 130 mph over highways in Chambers and Harris counties, Gaydos lay on the side of a residential road just outside of Houston — shot in the thigh and then karate kicked off his bike by another state trooper who’d joined the chase."
"After leaving a party at a friend’s house, Gaydos, a bartender at a local strip club, conceded he ran the stop sign and knew he was being chased by police. But with a suspended license, Gaydos said he feared that if he was caught he’d lose the motorcycle — “all I had.” So when he saw Blackburn’s cruiser gaining on him, he yanked on the throttle."
"After being shot, Gaydos — who subsequently was charged with evading arrest, driving with an invalid license and possessing two Percocet pills — rode briefly down the road before raising his hand to signal a stop. As Gaydos put down his kickstand, Martinez’s dash camera shows the trooper executing a leaping kick into the motorcyclist’s back."
bboySushi
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Wow seriously? How do you not get fired after jump kicking someone in the back who was surrendering? I didn't see any regard for the rider's well being, so cops just shoot and wait for an ambulance to arrive and not attend to wounds they've inflicted? because that's messed up. It's his job to apprehend not to let someone die from blood loss.
And for sure cops need to take the circumstances and the law being broken into consideration, the law isn't a black and white code. If it was a skateboard who was running from a cop because he was trespassing...does he also have grounds to shoot him to stop him because he's evading arrest?
And the point isn't even whether the rider deserves it, it's the fact that it's a police officer who is supposed to represent a set of principles and be an example. He's on duty and he needs to act in accordance with the oath he swore to uphold, not to his own emotions.
And for sure cops need to take the circumstances and the law being broken into consideration, the law isn't a black and white code. If it was a skateboard who was running from a cop because he was trespassing...does he also have grounds to shoot him to stop him because he's evading arrest?
And the point isn't even whether the rider deserves it, it's the fact that it's a police officer who is supposed to represent a set of principles and be an example. He's on duty and he needs to act in accordance with the oath he swore to uphold, not to his own emotions.
A fleeing skateboarder doesn't present the same risk to the public that a much heavier motorcycle doing 130mph does.
For the rest, it takes two to dance and it was the motorcycle rider who was taking the lead.
For what it's worth, I was reading an item the other day that attributes aggressive acts by American cops to the fact that so much of the US population is armed, likely carrying, and prone to being willing to use their firearms.
"In one year on average in America 108,067 are shot in murders, murder attempts, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings and police intervention.About 32,105 will die from gun fire this year. Of that number 11,488 are intentional homicides. An average of 386 people a year are killed by police intervention. While an average of 827 people are injured by police fire every year.
So while the police are the most trigger-happy out of most developed nations, so are American citizens."
Which leads back to this:
"According to a 2013 statistic, there is an estimated 310 million guns in the country. The population of the U.S. is 317 million, so statistically nearly everyone is “armed.” Police officers understandably want to make it home to their families at the end of the day, so they have to be paranoid. This paranoia leads to “unjustified” deaths, especially for the black community where people of color are often ignorantly stereotyped as gang members who probably have a gun."
Riceburner
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There's paranoid and there's unjustified.
So when he ran the stop and then tried to run, how do the police know that he has not just murdered someone? Why run for a simple stop sign violation? He was at a party, had drugs on him, suspended licence AND ran a stop sign. This guy is a tool! The cops made mistakes as well but I do not ever worry about the police shooting me because I am not running around breaking laws and then running from them.
Riceburner
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so everyone that runs is guilty of a serious crime? Worked well for Walter Scott.
It's a fine line. The cop could have side swiped the bike, thus potentially killing him...but 4 shots at him would have possible done the same thing. My problem with it is where the 3 other shots went. Looks to be a populated area.
It's a fine line. The cop could have side swiped the bike, thus potentially killing him...but 4 shots at him would have possible done the same thing. My problem with it is where the 3 other shots went. Looks to be a populated area.
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