Man shot by police after acting ´deranged´
BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH AND DAVID OVALLE dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
¨A shirtless man entered a Burger King on Wednesday night, stealing customers' food, jumping on the tables and exposing himself, Miami police said.
An officer tried to restrain him with a Taser stun gun, but it didn't work.
Then the man scuffled with the officer, authorities said.
So the officer drew his weapon and shot the man in the shoulder...¨
If you read the story it sounds like the officer had no business shooting the guy. Of course they say maybe the mental was trying to get the officerś gun.
If I had shot one in ten of the mental subjects I had to deal with or fight with I would have ended up shooting in the hundreds. I never shot one of them.
I am not sure the officer even needed to use the Taser gun on him. I think he needed to try and talk to the guy. There is no one way to handle people. I think the Miami police think you order the person on the ground and if they do not do it right away you Taser the person. Now it appears if you Taser and the person does not comply you fucking shoot him.
Now I do not know all the details on this...I was not in that officerś shoes. But sometimes you go into something like this and you talk and try and reason with someone. Maybe you offer to buy the guy a hamburger. Or you ask him to sit down at a table outside and you talk to him for a little bit..in the mean time your back up officers show up.
Now some of you are going to say..well the guy was a mental and you should fucking shoot them. Often people that are acting like this have a medical problem. Maybe he had low blood surgar. Maybe his doctor gave him some medication that fucked up his mind. Maybe the guy was just mugged and hit in the head and has a head injury.
I can not count the number of times that I got some out of control ¨mental" a cup of coffee or something to smoke and I got everything under control and no one got hurt.
I do not know how many times I have read or seen on TV here in Miami police using a Taser on someone or shooting someone.
There is something wrong here.
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