Jaguar, sorry but you're wrong on a few counts:
Quote:
|
the cop was in basically 0 direct danger
|
The cops were outnumbered and surrounded by a violent mob. If that doesn't constitute danger, I don't know what does.
Quote:
|
cops are taught how to shoot to disarm but not kill
|
No, they aren't. Cops are trained to shoot to kill, and to aim "center-of-mass". If a cop points a gun at you, he's not trying to wing you, or shoot the fire extinguisher out of your hand. That only happens in movies. If a cop points a gun at you, he's aiming at a spot in the middle of your chest and he's preparing to kill you, because he's exhausted all his other options and can't think of any other way to resolve the situation. That's why it's called "deadly force", and why it's used so rarely.
Quote:
|
if he wanted to stop he throwing it surely he could have shot him in the chest/shoulder which would have made him drop it but is far less likely to kill him that between the eyes.
|
I have no idea what this means.
Quote:
|
Also please, remember cops don't play fair, I was at the S11 rally in Melbourne last year. In some of the batten charges they just randomly hit people around the head with 3 foot long steel poles, often these people were just standing on the sidelines, some of the cops just went rabid and hit anything that wasn?t wearing blue, and the court cases which have recently been won here prove it.
|
All this proves is that there are some stupid cops in Melbourne. I don't know anything about this. Did they fire the cops in question? I hope so.
Quote:
|
people are realizing how such meetings undermine our fragile democracy.
|
Petitio principii- "it begs the question". You make a statement based on a "fact" which has yet to be proven by argument. Are you suggesting that the G8 meeting is somehow anti-democratic? I would beg to differ with you there. With the exception of the Russians (and we only invite them because we don't want to hurt their feelings, and they like to feel they're still important), this is a meeting of the world's largest democracies. They're getting together to figure out ways to help the rest of the world enjoy the same democratic blessings and, incidentally, get rich along the way. Wheeee!
I do, too. But for entirely different reasons.