Another American Police Execution of a Handicapped Person.

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The Holocaust of handicapped people in America continues.

seems like an informal culling to me.

They'll probably justify it by saying the officer reasonably feared for their life and, hey, do you want our men and women in uniform to be vulnerable to violent criminals?

This is something that's probably going to be very unpopular, but I think it needs saying: Law enforcement officers are public servants who perform an inherently dangerous duty. Sure, we should take steps to ensure officers' safety, but not if it results in innocents dying because officers are so quick to react with deadly force to perceived threats: shoot first and ask questions later. My suggestion would probably mean that more officers will die, and it's not something that we'd like to think about. Nevertheless, we have to keep in mind the situation that a person puts themselves in when they choose to be a law enforcement officer.

I think they'll be Hell to pay. The victim was an affluent white guy.

Is this a major problem? absolutely. Describing it as a holocaust is hyperbole. There are not millions of disabled people bieng killed by a deliberate goverment decision to do so. It is a combination of reckless policies, bad judgement, a**hole individuals and wrong assumptions.

OMG, it's dangerous to drive when you're deaf. What of you get a cop behind you and you don't know because you won't be able to hear their siren? That poor guy probably didn't even know he had a cop following him until he got home and didn't know why the officer was at his house. Maybe they should have a sticker on their car saying "deaf person driving" so the officer knows and also wear a medical bracelet saying they are deaf and mute. But still he didn't have a weapon so why did they have to shoot? All he had was his hands. Did they think he was going to assault them with them, they have guns so they can just hold them out and the person will back off. My natural instinct would be holding my hands up if an officer pointed a gun at me. Did those officers even give him a chance to do that?


In Montana, they don't even use their sirens at all, only lights so I once had a cop follow me eight miles and it didn't ring any bells to me when a car in front of me pulled over. I just kept on going thinking that van let me pass because they had to pull over to the side of the road for some reason. I just happened to look in my rear view mirror and there he was so I pulled over right away. He was on my tail.

But seriously you will be able to tell if someone was running from you because they would be going fast and picking up speed than going the same speed and slowing down so the officer behind me knew I wasn't running. But he did ask me why I didn't pull over and I said I did when I saw he was behind me and he said he went after me eight miles from town and I said I didn't know he was behind me until I looked in my mirror. That was when he told me about the van pulling over. But luckily I didn't get in trouble for that.

Absolutely sickening and unacceptable. The police seem to be the enemy of the American people. The good ones who honour their duty to serve and protect seem few and far between.

I really think I prefer our often incompetent ones in our country to the American cops. They seem to think killing people for minor violations is justified.

It's stories like this that make me say the police problem in the US goes beyond racism.

Let's strip away the officer's badge for a second as a thought experiment. Does he have a right to shoot this person? No of course not. He was unarmed and not apparently a threat.

You don't follow police officer's instructions to the letter you might be shot. And you might be shot even if you do. That's just the way it is now in the US. Many police officers have this dangerous sense of entitlement - that everyone must do exactly what they say and if they don't they are a horrible, dangerous person probably a criminal holding a gun. If you talk back to a police officer you are a criminal who deserves to be shot. If you don't follow a police officer's commands you are a danger and deserved to be shot.

Deaf people have to be very careful. So do mentally ill people. So do people on drugs. Anyone who isn't quite 100% perfect mentally needs to be extremely careful