I don't think anyone wants to be a police officer anymore.
From Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Prosecutor Chris Becker announced charges Thursday against Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr, weeks after Lyoya was killed following a chaotic traffic stop on April 4.
The 26-year-old Lyoya was on the ground when he was killed. The shooting was recorded on video by a bystander.
"The death was not justified or excused ... by self defense," Becker said, referring to an element of second-degree murder.
The video (graphic warning) of the traffic stop that led to Lyoya's death is hard to watch. Officer Shurr was responding to the situation alone and there were some serious gaps in his training, including how to take down and restrain a subject.
In the video, Lyoya got out of the car against the officer's orders and then proceeded to try to run away. The officer stopped him and tried to wrestle him to the ground, finally succeeding. He then took out his taser.
The two men continued to wrestle, with Lyoya repeatedly ignoring the officer's warnings. After grabbing the officer's taser and attempting to turn it on him, the officer ordered Lyoya to drop the weapon several times. After Lyoya refused, the officer fired one shot into the suspect's back.
This same technique is seen many times involving armed suspects. There were multiple officers (and bystanders) in a California Walmart in March that tried to restrain a perp who had a gun and managed to get it off his belt even with so much manpower pinning him down. One officer fired a shot while on top of the perp to keep him from killing someone.
That case, of course, was not ruled a wrongful death.
Yet the media in this case wants you to think that Lyoya was executed with a Nazi-style shot to the back of the head, as well as pin racial animus on the officer.
A Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, with a shot to the back of his head has been charged with second-degree murder.
A murder charge involves a willful premeditated decision to kill someone. In a case like this, if protocol was not followed, you may perhaps argue manslaughter... but murder?
After Saint George Floyd's heart stopped because he had enough fentanyl in him to kill a horse and was trying to fight off police, Officer Derek Chauvin was not only charged, but convicted of murder. Once we've lowered the scales of justice to "we demand blood when we're angry," why should we expect officers to face anything other than murder charges?
And if that is the case, who would want to be a police officer? It would be better to give the neighborhoods what they want – anarchy – than to sign up for a disgraced life in prison. Better to let the cities burn than stick your neck out, right?
We're in for some serious trouble ahead. The only thing left to protect us soon is going to be our weapons, and the same politicians who demonize cops want to take those too.
Kinda makes you think.
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