re: #54 William Barnett-Lewis

Ever hear of a fucking taser? The simple presence of one on a _PROPERLY_ trained officer’s belt decreases violent outcomes. Because they know they have a escape valve.

DF, one of thing I’ve been trying to remind you is that people react how they’ve been trained to react. When we trained MP’s for Bosnia, we spent a lot of time teaching them how to find the weapons those people would really actually likely have - a wire that would be a garrote in my hat, a bit of steel in my shoe, a .25 caliber pistol taped to my groin because “straight guys don’t feel up other men there” and so on. Firearms are so much easier to defend against than 99% of the things humans have thought of…

William, the post you are responding to is talking about Daniele Watts’ encounter with the LAPD after people called the police saying she was having sex with her boyfriend in a car in public view. At no time in that encounter did either officer draw his gun, that much is clear. It was not a lethal force situation.