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6. Not at all
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 03:07 AM
Aug 2015

It's just simply one of several techniques that is taught in the academy. As I also said, it leaves the officers prints on the vehicle. If something as pushing down on the trunk of a vehicle can help prevent just one death, why not do it? There are dozens of little things that an officer is taught to help reduce the danger during a traffic stop. For example, standing near the pillar in the middle of the vehicle helps protect in case a quick shot is fired, another is orienting yourself behind the engine block and the steel rims on your car to keep any bullets passing through the the sheet metal from getting to you. As I said before, I didn't see anything wrong until he decided to body slam her. He escalated his use of force when it was not required to control the situation.

Oh, and btw, a broken clock is right twice a day.

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