What are the police supposed to do if you resist arrest and try to use a police TASER on the cops?

[A Hit With The Ladies]

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Video shot by a bystander captures Brooks struggling with two officers on the ground outside the Wendy’s before breaking free and running across the parking lot with what appears to be a police TASER in his hand.

A second videotape from the restaurant’s cameras shows Brooks turning as he runs and possibly aiming the TASER at the pursuing officers before one of them fires his gun and Brooks falls to the ground.

Brooks ran the length of about six cars when he turned back toward an officer and pointed what he had in his hand at the policeman, said Vic Reynolds, director of the GBI at a separate press conference.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-atlanta/protesters-burn-down-wendys-in-atlanta-where-black-man-was-slain-by-police-idUSKBN23K0RI

So is the cop supposed to sit around and get tazed? I thought it was common sense that if you're resisting arrest and trying to taze a cop, the cop is going to neutralize the threat and bring you down. I think using deadly force here was completely justified.

[A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN]

You have already proven yourself a lethal threat by definition when you fire a projectile that can reasonably maim or kill a police officer. Firing a weapon or a TASER at an officer is grounds to neutralize you as a threat.

Ever heard of 'suicide by cop'? Someone too cowardly to end their own life directly may just egg the cop on by threatening someone else, even an officer himself/herself, in order to get the cop to shoot them.

Officers can and will use deadly force against you if you start using deadly force first. As it should be.

And we should all be grateful that Brooks did not maim or kill an officer or a bystander when he illegally discharged that stolen TASER.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

On 6/21/2020 at 6:43 AM, toomuchbaloney said:

At what point is enough enough?

When we stop pretending that the country and it's institutions aren't built upon racist oppression. When we stop acting like a little bit of protest fixes the problem that has festered for hundreds of years. The only erasing of history that has happened is that which seeks to paint racist cruelty with a stroke of patriotic honor. The oppressed didn't write our history...

TRUTH MATTERS. But it is not the fault of someone who believes untruths they were taught. Probably not the fault of their teachers either. But if we continue to ignore the truth it will be our mistake.

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Civil War Myths, Busted

The most widespread myth is also the most basic. Across America, 60 percent to 75 percent of high-school history teachers believe and teach that the South seceded for state's rights, said Jim Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong"...

... In fact, Loewen said, the original documents of the Confederacy show quite clearly that the war was based on one thing: slavery. For example, in its declaration of secession, Mississippi explained, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world … a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization."...

... In its justification of secession, Texas sums up its view of a union built upon slavery: "We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable."

The myth that the war was not about slavery seems to be a self-protective one for many people, said Stan Deaton, the senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society.

"People think that somehow it demonizes their ancestors," to have fought for slavery, Deaton told LiveScience. But the people fighting at the time were very much aware of what was at stake, Deaton said...

https://www.livescience.com/13673-civil-war-anniversary-myths.html

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

https://www.historynet.com/which-states-referred-to-slavery-in-their-cause-of-secession.htm

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/reasons-secession

https://www.historyonthenet.com/reasons-for-secession