Why Black Lives Still Matter Part 2 Ignore the troll edition!!!

I can see making stuff up after you've shot somebody in order to avoid punishment. Not advocating it, just saying I can understand why somebody would do that. But what does the police woman get out of fabricating an incident that never happened? She wasn't under investigation.

Does that police department have some union contract that says you can retire at half pay if you've been shot in the line of duty, or something?

Maybe she was looking for the notoriety and adulation she might get from a certain mindset of people, if she became known for standing up to one of the bad old black criminal types. Not only standing up to them, but (gasp) being injured by one of them. Instant martyr-like fame.

The experts interviewed by Mr. Dubé's investigators cited a phenomenon which states, "Culture eats training." Translation: without a change in culture, no amount of training will effect positive change.

The report by Paul Dubé and his investigators looked at the interaction between police and the mentally ill, and the number of deaths which followed. The highlights of the report were duly noted by the media, but it is not until you dig deeper into its findings that you feel the real sense of shock.

And perhaps the most shocking revelation of all, was not that police were ignoring and not following their training, but that they were — to the letter.

In blunt language, the report states: "Ontario police officers have plenty of training on how to use their guns, but not enough on how to use their mouths."

In other words, how to de-escalate a potentially violent confrontation without shooting.

When they confront somebody holding a pair of scissors, say, their training tells them to pull their guns and yell at the person to drop the scissors. Training focuses almost entirely on weapons use and very little on de-escalation, a tactic which can defuse a situation before it turns violent.

But expanded training in the use of de-escalation techniques is not enough. As the report notes, the task will require a fundamental change in police culture.

We entrust our police with extraordinary powers; the power to arrest, to interrogate and charge and most importantly, the power to use lethal force. No other element in society has that kind of power. With the job comes responsibility.

They are setting up the groupthink now. Saying things they already know they agree upon. You will get no disagreement from these three members. No trolls here yet.

Notice the careful laying of the bait. Snood's comment on the "mindset of certain people" is good, but Blicker's phrase "clique of racists on the police department" is pure genius.

Now we all we have to do is wait for someone with a different perspective or (gasp) a contrary opinion .... The trap has been set. The self-righteousness is thick...

She was reportedly wearing chest protection. If someone is wearing a kevlar vest, I can imagine it not being overly difficult to shoot oneself at an angle to minimize risk.

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They are setting up the groupthink now. Saying things they already know they agree upon. You will get no disagreement from these three members. No trolls here yet.

Notice the careful laying of the bait. Snood's comment on the "mindset of certain people" is good, but Blicker's phrase "clique of racists on the police department" is pure genius.

Now we all we have to do is wait for someone with a different perspective or (gasp) a contrary opinion .... The trap has been set. The self-righteousness is thick...

So you think I contact snood and Bobsal before I make a post, just to victimize you? I might point out I didn't even post in the original thread, at least I don't remember it. You must have watched that TV show that was on where there was an ostensible group of reality show contestants, but actually there was only contestant and all the rest were hired actors all pretending to be contestants and they were trying to deceive him into believing or doing something. A2K as reality show. Is that what you think is going on?

I've no view on this except that she might have had a plan to get away from what she signed up for. Or, Not.