Police shot and killed 986 people in 2015

[christiefan915]

On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas police officers cornered Keith Childress Jr., who was wanted for a number of violent felonies. They opened fire on the black 23-year-old after he refused to drop the object in his hands, which turned out not to be a gun but a cellphone. And with that, the nation logged what was probably its final police shooting death of 2015, a year in which 986 such killings occurred, well more than double the average number reported annually by the FBI over the past decade.

The shooting is the final one to be counted as part of The Washington Post’s year-long project tracking on-duty police killings by firearm, an issue that has taken on new urgency after a number of high-profile killings of unarmed African American men. The Post sought to document every shooting death at the hands of police in 2015, and it revealed troubling patterns in the circumstances that led to such shootings and the characteristics of the victims...

Over the past year, The Post found that the vast majority of those shot and killed by police were armed and half of them were white. Still, police killed blacks at three times the rate of whites when adjusted for the populations where these shootings occurred. And although black men represent 6 percent of the U.S. population, they made up nearly 40 percent of those who were killed while unarmed...

Childress’s death in many ways encapsulates the complex nature of these incidents. On one hand, the young man was unarmed, carrying nothing but a cellphone. At the same time, he had a history that suggested a capacity for violence, and he behaved suspiciously, ignoring officers’ commands for a full two minutes and advancing even as the officers threatened to shoot. While communicating with local police, however, the marshals conveyed incorrect information — that Childress was wanted for attempted murder, McMahill said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...79a_story.html

[Legion Troll]

He should have dropped that phone.

[christiefan915]

He should have dropped that phone.

Maybe the cops wouldn't have pulled their guns on him if they hadn't received false info that he was wanted for attempted murder.

[Legion Troll]

Maybe the cops wouldn't have pulled their guns on him if they hadn't received false info that he was wanted for attempted murder.

Maybe they would. He was black.

[christiefan915]

Maybe they would. He was black.

There is that.

[Legion Troll]

It's always wise to obey police instructions.

[PostmodernProphet]

347 have been killed in Chicago just since January 1st......I bet they wish they had more policemen......

[signalmankenneth]

On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas police officers cornered Keith Childress Jr., who was wanted for a number of violent felonies. They opened fire on the black 23-year-old after he refused to drop the object in his hands, which turned out not to be a gun but a cellphone. And with that, the nation logged what was probably its final police shooting death of 2015, a year in which 986 such killings occurred, well more than double the average number reported annually by the FBI over the past decade.

The shooting is the final one to be counted as part of The Washington Post’s year-long project tracking on-duty police killings by firearm, an issue that has taken on new urgency after a number of high-profile killings of unarmed African American men. The Post sought to document every shooting death at the hands of police in 2015, and it revealed troubling patterns in the circumstances that led to such shootings and the characteristics of the victims...

Over the past year, The Post found that the vast majority of those shot and killed by police were armed and half of them were white. Still, police killed blacks at three times the rate of whites when adjusted for the populations where these shootings occurred. And although black men represent 6 percent of the U.S. population, they made up nearly 40 percent of those who were killed while unarmed...

Childress’s death in many ways encapsulates the complex nature of these incidents. On one hand, the young man was unarmed, carrying nothing but a cellphone. At the same time, he had a history that suggested a capacity for violence, and he behaved suspiciously, ignoring officers’ commands for a full two minutes and advancing even as the officers threatened to shoot. While communicating with local police, however, the marshals conveyed incorrect information — that Childress was wanted for attempted murder, McMahill said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...79a_story.html

Some of these so-called officers are to quick to shoot? The departments need to do a better job of screening new recruits?
Some of these so-called officers are nothing more than thugs with a badge, gun and a licence to kill?
We also need to start prosecuting and putting in prison these killer cops too! If an officer so scared, you're in the wrong line of work?

[PostmodernProphet]

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you forgot to draw the sniper rifle in his hands.....

[Celticguy]

So a job that I s predicated on dealing with lawless behavior has a number of instances of bad outcomes and is this surprising ?
It might be good to note the contrasting number of incidents when the outcome was positive. That is, after all , the goal. When dealing with statistically violent demigraphics, violence is the expected outcome.

[Legion Troll]

So a job that I s predicated on dealing with lawless behavior has a number of instances of bad outcomes and is this surprising ? It might be good to note the contrasting number of incidents when the outcome was positive. That is, after all , the goal. When dealing with statistically violent demigraphics, violence is the expected outcome.

[Phantasmal]

So a job that I s predicated on dealing with lawless behavior has a number of instances of bad outcomes and is this surprising ?
It might be good to note the contrasting number of incidents when the outcome was positive. That is, after all , the goal. When dealing with statistically violent demigraphics, violence is the expected outcome.

This belief is why the circle will be unbroken, you expect violence it is what you get, if you respect most people and don't see them as violent then they will respond in kind.

[Celticguy]

This belief is why the circle will be unbroken, you expect violence it is what you get, if you respect most people and don't see them as violent then they will respond in kind.

As HRC pointed out, violent outcomes involve habitually violent people. This us not expectation influencing an outcome the's are predictable outcomes.

[Legion Troll]

As HRC pointed out, violent outcomes involve habitually violent people. This us not expectation influencing an outcome the's are predictable outcomes.

[Canceled 2016.4]

On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas police officers cornered Keith Childress Jr., who was wanted for a number of violent felonies. They opened fire on the black 23-year-old after he refused to drop the object in his hands, which turned out not to be a gun but a cellphone. And with that, the nation logged what was probably its final police shooting death of 2015, a year in which 986 such killings occurred, well more than double the average number reported annually by the FBI over the past decade.

The shooting is the final one to be counted as part of The Washington Post’s year-long project tracking on-duty police killings by firearm, an issue that has taken on new urgency after a number of high-profile killings of unarmed African American men. The Post sought to document every shooting death at the hands of police in 2015, and it revealed troubling patterns in the circumstances that led to such shootings and the characteristics of the victims...

Over the past year, The Post found that the vast majority of those shot and killed by police were armed and half of them were white. Still, police killed blacks at three times the rate of whites when adjusted for the populations where these shootings occurred. And although black men represent 6 percent of the U.S. population, they made up nearly 40 percent of those who were killed while unarmed...

Childress’s death in many ways encapsulates the complex nature of these incidents. On one hand, the young man was unarmed, carrying nothing but a cellphone. At the same time, he had a history that suggested a capacity for violence, and he behaved suspiciously, ignoring officers’ commands for a full two minutes and advancing even as the officers threatened to shoot. While communicating with local police, however, the marshals conveyed incorrect information — that Childress was wanted for attempted murder, McMahill said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...79a_story.html

Are there people who deserve to be shot and killed by reason of their actions? Yes or No?