Not a veteran, but the whole thing looks like he was creating pretext to kill the guy.
Nearly a dozen combat veterans told me this would be a war crime and could cause an international incident if footage of a soldier doing this overseas was released. Without fail each veteran found this to be despicable.https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/939014159726870530 …
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I agree.....You would think the guy was wanted for murder or something.
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I want to know why he has an assault weapon and why he had it pointed at the guy what did he do to warrant such a response did he shot someone or attack someone no so why such an extreme response
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Supposedly, the call was for a man pointing a rifle out a window (it was an air rifle, and he was showing it off). But the way it was handled was unusual, sloppy, and seems like it was designed to escalate to deadly force.
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Very so they ever try and verify what's going or who he is it's seems like the people that make these calls kinda go blameless
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I'm a Army vet and if that occurred overseas, that soldier would be at Ft Leavenworth in a snap. That incident was most definitely uncalled for smdh
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Thanks for your service!
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You're welcome.
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Army Veteran here, agree 100%.
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Maybe that’s the solution to this problem . Hold police officers to the same standard as our military . Give them the same training that our service men and women get .
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It makes sense. You give the police military equipment, you also give them the training to use it properly and with due restraint. Was it even confirmed the victim was the ‘man with the air rifle’, or did he get butchered for being innocent?
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"Having an air rifle in a hotel room" is not a crime, so yes to both.
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Of course! I was more trying to piece together the timeline but you are absolutely right that regardless of air rifle or no, this was straight up murder.
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Hold them to high standards, require it, demand it and have consequences if they comit attrocities, but they need specialised police training maybe looking into an improvement there could help aswell. A soldier is trained for a very different role than a police officer.
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How can we have more strict rules of engagement in a war zone, yet cops can get away with this? If they thought he had a gun: keep overwatch on him, move to him while he is frozen in position. Doesn't make sense to have him crawl and then kill him for trying to fix their pants.
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As a former Army officer one of the major reasons I'm pissed off about police brutality is that the law allows police to treat American citizens worse than our military is allowed to treat enemy combatants. The whole system of policing in this country has to change.
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"But I have a an American flag with a blue line on it, so this kid must have deserved his execution somehow." -Standard Issue Crimes Against Humanity Apologist (R), 2017
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