The bold above is a factual statement. In Italy, the police are on the streets, with Assault Rifles (I had to call them assault rifles for the impact like the media does) ready to go all in at any point. In fact, I started asking questions of people about the police... one after another said: I wish we had more police like them around.TheStorm said:
And as far as comparing what goes on in other countries v. what is currently going on here... in those other countries people accept and know that the police aren't going to *****foot around if you do something wrong.
I used to travel extensively to both Europe and South America for work in a past life and it was commonplace to see their police toting machine guns in airports, subways, train stations, etc... I think they call it a deterent.
Hell, I remember my wife and I entering Italy on a train from Switzerland... and soon after we crossed the border the first contact we had was the barrel of a machine gun coming through the pocket door into our seating compartment for the passport check. They take your passport with them and you don't ask them when they are bringing it back. They bring it back when they are good and ready. When you stay in a hotel they keep your passport at the front desk.
Here in this country we ask our police officers to do their job (which most of you forget is mostly to protect us and keep us safe by enforcing and upholding our laws) with one hand tied behind their backs... now the lefties think they can do it with both hands cuffed behind their backs - while they shelter those that don't take "personal accountability" (there's that pesky phrase again) for their actions.
It's a shame that kid had to lose his life and no one is disputing that and that police officer will pay the consequences of her actions for that. But it never would have happened if the kid had not resisted to begin with.
She was a 26 year veteran of police duty... has she been out just randomly shooting black men throughout her career? or white, yellow, brown or red for that matter...
What a difference a country makes?