All I know is If I have to ask someone to drop a knife twice chances are... Wait the guy was deaf? Shiiiiit, wouldn't want to have been on that call...
I have one very important thing to say here... labeling all cops as bad, eager to fight because they got picked on as a kid, etc. etc. is stereotyping. Stereotyping is very unfair and no different than racism! All these videos really prove is there are good cops and there are bad cops!
Take this video being offered above as an example... the Police officer had no way of knowing he was deaf and we do not get to see exactly how it played out. I mean he very well could have had an itch to stir some $hit and get a chance to kill someone and claim self defense, but we were not there, we didn't see it, so who's to say the guy didn't turn around and make a bewildered gesture towards the officer, because he was deaf, that made the officer feel threatened? I don't know the answer and you don't know the answer, and without that information it really is unfair to make a judgement call either way. I will say it is a very unfortunate event either way and I don't think the deaf wood carver meant any harm, but we weren't there, we did not experience it from the Police officer's point of view and therefore I believe it unfair to make any judgements in favor of either party
I'm trying to be very politically correct here and make sure everyone knows I am not taking one side over the other, just saying that it is unfair for anyone to pick a side when they don't know the whole story or have all the evidence/facts.
I know this is way off subject, but maybe some of you will see the correlation that I am trying to make. Two years ago I was taking a statistics class and in it, a real quote was taken from FORD motors..."In a 2007 poll, American consumers chose the FORD Escort over the HONDA Accord 9 out of 10 times!" I was like what... BULL$HIT, then the teacher explained, it was a real poll and the results were 100% accurate, but, what they failed to explain is... FORD motors took this poll asking 10 different HONDA accord owners, who Accords were all 10yrs old or older and asked them if given the opportunity, would they be willing to trade in their 10+ yr old Honda Accord for a bran new 2007 Ford Focus, and 9 out of 10 said YES! There's your poll and it was perfectly legal! So what is the correlation, the correlation is that without the full story, you can pretty much use the limited information given and present it in a way that can turn Black & White into multiple shades of Grey! Whooo... time to step down....:soapbox: