Posted on Jul 7, 2016
Peter Rosenberg Spazzes On Cop Over Alton Sterling
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I love this video. He asked a simple question to a cop, and the cop does everything BUT answer the question. He's asked multiple times the same thing, and if this was a fight, the cop would be the master of bobbing and weaving. Now I'd wager that same cop would have no problem if it was someone harming a cop. He'd know every single word to describe the individual(s), he'd be able to properly articulate why the cop feared for his life, and why deadly force was the first option rather than the last. Even watching the police chief, the ONE thing he made sure of was to announce that the man had a weapon on his person. You had nothing else to offer but "he had a weapon on him". So lets look at the standard phrases: 1. I feared for my life...check. 2. I feared for my partners safety...check. 3. He was resisting...check. 4. We're going to investigate this fully using in house investigators...check. 5. He forgot that you cannot use sentence enhancers on a cop...check. 6. The witnesses who took the video, the owner of the store who came out and said the cops story was a lie....are all wrong. The video only starts here, and we don't have anything prior to that, but we know through cellphone video that he was armed. 7. We expect a full joint investigation with the DOJ to see if any wrongdoings were there....check. The wrong doer is dead. 8. People should not rush to judgement on these two fine outstanding seasoned vet patriotic, dedicated, prior service with ten deployments to the chow hall between them....check. 9. The Union has repeated that it will support the cops involved, and will be vindicated with the truth comes out using eyewitness testimony and cellphone video that starts at a certain point, that we said before wasn't correct....check. 10. According to sources (Sarah Pailin) this took place as a response to Obama's lack of respect to the veterans redeploying back to a country bringing with them scars from battle and no mental health hugs. It also led to my son beating his girlfriend, and is exactly why these fine officers should not be facing any ill will.
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This nation would be a better place if people were free to speak their mind. I am not in the least bit surprised that he could not get a police officer to answer that question. Why? Because that cop is still a cop. He still has to work with other cops. He has to trust his life to them, and they have to trust theirs to him. He is not going to go on a radio show in which a fellow officer could be listening, and admit that the mentality is to protect their own. He can't. If he does, he opens himself up to retaliation.
So I will re-iterate. In a perfect nation he should be able to come out and state his honest opinion after viewing the video without fear of repercussions. Freedom of speech. Freedom to say what we want to say. The caveat to that is that there are always consequences. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always there. The officer who called in realistically shouldn't have called in. He should have expected that the seemingly baseless nature of the shooting would be addressed. He should have deduced that questions would be asked that he was not willing to answer.
SSG Warren Swan Thanks for sharing.
So I will re-iterate. In a perfect nation he should be able to come out and state his honest opinion after viewing the video without fear of repercussions. Freedom of speech. Freedom to say what we want to say. The caveat to that is that there are always consequences. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always there. The officer who called in realistically shouldn't have called in. He should have expected that the seemingly baseless nature of the shooting would be addressed. He should have deduced that questions would be asked that he was not willing to answer.
SSG Warren Swan Thanks for sharing.
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SSG Warren Swan
As much as you are correct, that is a dangerous and slipperly slope. We should be free to say what we want, but that right brings other unintended risks with it. I say what I want, and now don't have a job. I say what I want and get my ass kicked, I say what I want, and discover there is a divorce lawyer wanting to talk to be suddenly. There is always going to be consequences to speech, and some know it, others don't care, and others have no idea there are ramifications to deal with.
It was a cop out in the purest sense, but we know the deal. Muslim and quiet on other Muslims committing acts of terror means you condone it. A cop knowing another cop murdered someone, violated their rights, don't make all cops out to be bad. That's even here on RP. I hope one day that will change, but I don't ever plan on hearing it. Even from the cops who are honest as all hell, are determined to make a positive change, they still need to feed the family so quiet is the word of the day.
It was a cop out in the purest sense, but we know the deal. Muslim and quiet on other Muslims committing acts of terror means you condone it. A cop knowing another cop murdered someone, violated their rights, don't make all cops out to be bad. That's even here on RP. I hope one day that will change, but I don't ever plan on hearing it. Even from the cops who are honest as all hell, are determined to make a positive change, they still need to feed the family so quiet is the word of the day.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
SSG Warren Swan - It is the sad reality that is the "Land of the Free" my friend.
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He's right. I got in a argument with a cop and pretty much said the same thing. When good cops defend bad cops, it taints the good cops in the public's mind.
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