Officer goes over board

[mgrist]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/us/co...rnd/index.html

Way overboard, I kind of understood.....less and less the more I read.

[wacojoe]

Everything I read he said sounds very effective at freezing a situation before one arose. I would have given him a commendation.

[Billy_Rightwing]

That was on the Caustic News Network so who knows if its true.

[Honda]

First I want to say, I am absolutely biased in favor of the police. With that out of the way I think the cop was trying to relate to these young men. I don't think he meant for a minute that he was going to light them up if they ran. However, these days it is much better for a cop to keep his mouth shut and then just show up when they commit the crimes and put them in jail. And it "shocks" me that the ACLU was happy with the firing of a cop. Now that is a big surprise...............

[Mike]

Having been there and probably said worse, I fully understand. The cop was alone, facing 4 trespassers (or worse), in the dark, in an area where he said he was finding an average of a gun a week. He was trying to let the trespassers know who was in command from the outset before something bad happened to him. Granted, he could have used a better choice of words, but I cannot believe he was fired for that. I suspect it was an excuse to get rid of someone they didn't want to keep around any longer.

[mgrist]

I understood when the conversation started for all the reasons above but the farther it went the more it sounded like a lit fuse. You can't rule by terror and with the way every interaction with a cop is depicted in the media......I don't know about the fired part, he could have taken one of those PC classes and all would have been good, maybe. If he had all four under arrest all the treats he could muster to keep the situation under control would have been warranted until help arrived I think. But as a matter of fact conversation, nah.