Shoot or don't shoot: Police scenarios prove eye-opening for civil rights leaders

[Doomsday101]

It was a split-second decision.
A distressed man with a young baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the "officer," who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand.

“I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him.
“It all happened so fast," he added. "You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/1...s-prove-eye-opening-for-civil-rights-leaders/

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I will keep my opinions about Quanell X private.
However..
Cops deserve the utmost respect and often only have milliseconds to make decisions about when/if to apply deadly force.

 

[WV Cowboy]

And these were training exercises, .. where you can't really simulate the distress or urgency that an officer would feel, or that would occur if this was in a darkened parking lot, outside a liquor store, or in a bad neighborhood, etc.

I would not want to be placed in situations like that.

 

[Doomsday101]

I will keep my opinions about Quanell X private.
However..
Cops deserve the utmost respect and often only have milliseconds to make decisions about when/if to apply deadly force.

I agree I have seen him here at the County Court House on several occasions, frankly I was shocked by his comments now that he has a better understanding of what the police deal with.

 

[Doomsday101]

And these were training exercises, .. where you can't really simulate the distress or urgency that an officer would feel, or that would occur if this was in a darkened parking lot, outside a liquor store, or in a bad neighborhood, etc.

I would not want to be placed in situations like that.

True he is only seeing an exercise they go through which is a bit different when you life is truly on the line. While we all know there are bad cops out there, there are also a lot of good ones doing a very difficult job