Handcuffing the Police

Are we going to second-guess them every time a cop is forced to use his gun in self defense for himself or for others? We’re going to make cops afraid to use their guns, even when their lives are threatened, and that’s going to cost cop lives, and incidentally, the lives of those they are supposed to be protecting. There’s a move afoot to disarm the cops, and what we’re doing today accomplishes that, by making them afraid to use their guns for fear of being fired, and worse, imprisoned themselves, together with the very people they have put there. The killing of George Floyd was NOT “righteous.” He was NOT fighting. He was already “under control,” but then had THREE cops put him down and kneel upon him, one with his knee on his neck, killing him. In Atlanta it is not quite so clear. This subject was actively fighting, and getting the better of several cops. He had stolen one of their stun guns and was using it on one of the cops. That stun gun could be a deadly weapon in the right circumstances. And then there’s the fact that he could have taken that cop’s gun while he was “out of it” from the stun gun and killed one of the other cops. The knee-jerk action of the mayor in firing that cop within hours was an overreaction. If she files charges against the cop that will be a tragedy. (CNN)