7th November 2019, 9:38 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Police training that focuses on their own safety above all else is training police to be cowards, and that's not the job. The job is to put themselves at risk to protect others. The job entails being willing to die for that cause. If someone is not willing to fulfill that duty, they shouldn't take the job! That's it.
Any officer who defends killing an unarmed person with anything like "I thought I was in danger" is a coward who deserves to live in shame for the rest of their lives, preferably in jail.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)