She literally shouted "I'm gonna taser you!" And then shot him.
Yeah, it's a clear cut fuck up. No way around it. I don't care how pro law enforcement someone is. There's no excuse.
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Yeah, it's a clear cut fuck up. No way around it. I don't care how pro law enforcement someone is. There's no excuse.
Bigking321
Well-known member
I don't think anyone's defending the shooting, just saying the guy had a warrant and had violated bail.
The shooting was clearly accidental and unjustified. She thought she was holding a taser but actually grabbed her gun. Absolutely not good.
The shooting was clearly accidental and unjustified. She thought she was holding a taser but actually grabbed her gun. Absolutely not good.
You might want to actually look up how the police system works before you start trying to claim definitives...
Glocks don't have that kinda safety
I don't think we are talking about the brighest bulb in the batch.
LindyAF
Well-known member
As Zachowon said, Glocks (and pistols like that) have safety built into the trigger meant to make the gun drop safe, but besides that the safety is keeping your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. This is basically the standard on striker-action pistols.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Uh, didn’t know, thanks for the info then.
You seem to be forgetting that Arizona in the 2018 elections was the test ground for the kind of election fraud that was later utilized in the 2020 election.
You also forget it is also the state where Gun Jesus shows us how loose the gun laws are there
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
And what do loose gun laws have to do with the fact that election fraud went of unchecked and will continue to do so in the future elections?
Glocks are like TT-33s in that respective. No safety.
Airedale260
Well-known member
I know quite well how it works, I've worked around cops (active and retired) for pretty much my entire adult life.
Regardless of his history, *at that moment* he was not a lethal threat. Potter knew it, which is why she yelled out she was going to taser him and then said "Oh my God, I just shot him."
DocSolarisReich
Esoteric Spaceman
As mentioned above, Glocks have three mechanical safeties, all of which are disengaged by pulling the trigger.
Safe Action System
The three automatic independently-operating mechanical safeties are built into the fire control system of each perfectly designed GLOCK pistol. Learn more.
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The problem in this instance is that the taser is shaped just like a Glock, to make training and LBE easier/cheaper for departments with low budgets. In the heat of the moment, it is entirely possible to grab the lethal force option instead of the less lethal and not realize it until you've pulled the trigger, as happened previously to (IIRC) an LA transit authority officer. This is made worse by the habit of police to work moonlight at multiple departments and agencies, and wearing different rigs as a result.
ShieldWife
Marchioness
She did seem to screw up, but the proper punishment for that would far easier to determine if there weren’t such a media circus surrounding the case, just like with all of these other racially charged deaths that the media have used to create a race war. You’re have a fair trial or fair treatment of the accused when the media conspires to turn the accused into a villain and all of the establishment authorities have the same agenda.
This has been known for a while. Last year some BLM caused a ton of trouble in Columbia SC. The Bulk of them were from out of state. The powers that be have professional protestors they bus around all over the country to cause trouble.
They even admitted to the networks used to do this on that times article.
These people are pawns being ordered around by the elites.
DocSolarisReich
Esoteric Spaceman
The important lesson to learn here, like with the Army throwing a staff sergeant to the wolves for the sin of protecting his family, is that the state doesn’t care about you, so stop identifying with it and giving it our blood and loyalty.