I'd have to check the records, but I don't think a child can carry a gun even in an open-carry state... or as an adult, you're probably not allowed to wave it around at a public park...

Yeah - It's totally different to stereotype all cops as racists that shoot people based on things like this article says. Totally different.

My specific issue is that we're judging the merits of someone deserving to be in jail based on the media's account of a story that they didn't witness, in most cases. That they're quoting biased, and often unreliable, witnesses.

Again.... The amount of cops that are "standing by" allowing bad policing is a fraction of a fraction of the entire police force. It doesn't mean it's not a problem, but please stop pretending like every cop is just standing around while their partner chokes out a brother at the gas station for not obeying every word.…

When we're referring to the media's portrayal of police, I think it's fair to suggest that just maybe the story could be presented as one sided.. #pageclicks

Again... If the alternative is dying, I'm going to go with infuriating. I don't pretend to believe I can change the world. I pretend to have some sort of say in whether I live or die or not, by a cop though. I'd rather go home mad, then not go home.

I was more picturing surgeons (As I said in another response to someone else, I lost twin sons to a careless surgeon), who have carelessly taken people's lives. They don't do it with a gun, but many of them do it via a lack of training or by making a mistake. Surely they don't go into a surgery planning to kill…

It is frustrating. I wasn't suggesting that they not be held accountable, or the people that affect change and policy in the police force shouldn't be held accountable. I was suggesting that a random cop in a random city, that continues to work shouldn't be.. That's all.

I haven't insulted anyone, I don't think. Aside from you, obviously, but you had it coming with your intentionally ignorant trolling. That's all.

Cops are fired for cause all the time. They're rarely fired when their poor training is to blame for their misconduct.

I guess that depends on what the cop is telling you to do? What if the cop is telling you to stop firing your weapon at children in a school?

Nope, the people doing the allowing and covering up are to blame. Not the random traffic cop working in Kansas City.

You can tell them apart. The 99% that aren't "standing up"? Those are the ones apart.

No, but if you don't think plenty of people are dying in manners that should cause equal outrage.. You're an idiot.

1. Some there are, some there aren't. That was kind of my point.

Yes, except there are plenty of instances where they do.

While I agree with you, it seems like the general commentor base on Deadspin/Gawker is comprised of people that can't fathom a situation where a cop has to shoot and kill someone (even someone that's unarmed). I don't get that line of thinking. Sometimes it really can be as simple as he should have done what he said,…

And yeah, the NYC specifically thing is weird. That's still mainly the Union to blame, but that is at least an act being taken out by traffic cops and thus a bad look. I agree.

I was making a distinction between "traffic cops" and "cops" that don't work a post. Traffic cops aren't speaking to the media, attending hearings, and handling changes in their force. It's probably semantics though.

You do know that people are dying like every day..... Right? Like every single day, without stories. All over the world. Every minute of the day. Yes, I realize cops are killing people. I also realize that the cops that have ever committed an act that would piss off the collective public is such a small percentage of…