Why Did You Shoot Me, Sir ???

[yesiwasacop]

42. I have never been shot at by a black man (person)

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The city I worked in has about a 5% black population. I never worked that part of town, my area was almost exclusively hispanic.

One of my friends was shot by a black man, but he lived. The suspect was shot

In the city I worked, virtually all officer-involved shootings involved white suspects. My shooting was a white dude who walked out the front door as we were walking up and he opened fire on us.

I dont think all cops see all black guys as a threat. We had very few shootings i can recall involving a black guy who was shot by an officer.

Like I said, I worked mostly hispanic areas so my interactions with blacks were very few. In one incident, I was attacked by about 6 black males within six months of being on the job. That is the time I used a side=handle baton on anyone and this was right after the Rodney King deal. I have to say that even then I hesitated to use my side-handle because of the stigma it carried from that incident. It very well could have cost me my life due to theh violent nature of the attack, but my back-up got there before I got banged up too bad. The fight was too involved /close for me to even get my gun out, but I was trying as I thought they were gonna kill me. Problem with drawing a handgun when you are in this type of fight, is it can get yanked from your hands and used on you. Many cops each year are killed this way.

I cant say whether or not I viewed (or was scared of) blacks as a threat after that as I had very little inter-action with them as previously mentioned.

Over my career I had probably 200 violent encounters and if I really wanted to (as many members of this forum believe cops do want to) I probably could have shot at least 10 of them and justified it as they were brandishing firearms, but I elected not to for whatever reason at the time. I must not have felt they were enough of a threat.

As a side note, the fielding of the TASER has saved more lives then you can imagine- at least in my experience. It kept me from having to shoot prob 2 or 3 people (suicidal subjects with knives) so it is a good thing for the most part.