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In reply to the discussion: In Columbus, a cop shot a 15-year-old girl 10 SECONDS after he arrived on the scene [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)He came up on the middle of something.
He had no idea who was who and what was going on, nor does he seem to have made any effort to find out.
He resorted to a gun, quickly enough that he appears to have had no idea what to do besides shoot.
It seems he made a mistake, as the person he shot was the person who had called for assistance against several others.
He is unfit for the profession.
This kind of crap needs to stop.
To put it bluntly, I have reached a point where my first reaction to news of a police officer being shot is that the officer probably had it coming, and if he or she didn't, someone else in the department did, and people in uniform are interchangeable --- that's the whole point of a uniform.
By now, any officer is responsible for any other officer's misconduct.