Yes. I thought it was funny, and kind of disturbing, that a cop would be endorsed by such a person. I’m calling Mike the Cop an apologist for police brutality and excessive force. 'Cause that’s what motherfucker is, dude!
More proof that reasoned conversation is not to be had with you.
Mike the Cop literally believes that if you run away from him while he’s in uniform, then he has the legal right to shoot you multiple times in the back and kill you. Oh, but he might think it’s a tragedy afterward, which is cold comfort to the dead kid and his family.
Did you watched the whole video? If no, then maybe you don’t really know exactly what he believes.
To be exact, he does believe that he does believe a cop can shoot a fleeing person under certain circumstances and he sited a US Supreme Court ruling to back him up.
Mike the Cop literally believes that if you run away from him while he’s in uniform in certain circumstances, then he has the legal right to shoot you multiple times in the back and kill you, even if you’re unarmed. Is that better? I did watch parts of his videos and I saw some other videos of his and I think he’s dangerous. I wish people like him were not cops and didn’t have access to firearms.
And the Supreme Court has said all kinds of horrible shit in the past. The Supreme Court said Bush could be president without even finishing the Florida recount. The Supreme Court said segregation was A-okay. The Supreme court said black people were property, not people. Need I go on?
Nonetheless, US Supreme Court rulings are legally binding. The case he was referring to here was Tennessee vs Garner. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._Garner
He supports a bad ruling.
Mike the Cop argued that a fleeing suspect can be shot if the cop believes the suspect poses an imminent danger to people around the suspect.
And his definition of “imminent danger” is not something I trust given the murders that he has justified. Both of the times I’ve seen him defend police executions, the suspect was unarmed. Plus, he’s opposed to California’s attempt to protect citizens from the police because it requires police to deem it “necessary” to use deadly force which he thinks is too stringent. This man is not safe. I don’t know where he lives, but I sincerely hope that he isn’t in my county because I would not want to be up against this guy. His notion, “Innocent people don’t run,” is fascist and horrifying. People like this man are why people want to run from the police. Cops are scary! They’re the only people (typically) that can get away with killing you no matter how young you are, no matter how unthreatening, and no matter how obviously unarmed. How can people possibly not understand why sane people of all races, but especially black people, are afraid of cops?