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I don’t think she has switched parties. She was just calling out Democrats for their utter stupidity.

A couple of days ago on Facebook a guy made a comment saying that the officer was wrong because he should have asked what the problem was, de-escalate the situation or whatever. My follow up comment to him was, what questions would you have asked while a guy is coming at you with a machete? I was less than shocked that he still hasn’t responded.

They can be extremely effective and in many or probably a majority of cases end a use of force incident instantly. It is maybe 90-95% effective against people who are not jacked up on drugs. It is both extremely painful and if there is enough spread on the darts/fish hooks, it can lock up large muscle groups. In one case I shocked a possibly armed man who was in a small restroom at a restaurant. He was making threats and we believed he had a knife. To keep from having to possibly kill him we were going to use the original Taser which is far different than what is available today. It kind of looked like the old Eveready 6v lantern battery flashlights. BUT…. and this is protocol today, if a Taser is going to be used on a potential armed suspect, we must be prepared to apply deadly force instantly. That means one officer at least must be in the range to use the Taser (like 12 feet) which is much too close to a person with a knife or even club. In this case I was the unarmed (no deadly force weapons in hand) and had to rely on other officers behind me to use deadly force if needed. Basically we had to pull the door open placing me within about 6 feet of a guy with a knife, if he was armed. That tends to get your blood pressure cranked up. One officer had empty hands to take him down in a fight if needed, one had a pistol and the other a shotgun. The guy was unarmed but when I hit him with the Taser he shot out of that restroom and we had a heck of a struggle getting him in custody. My sergeant who was on scene (the hands on officer) said he looked like a bottle rocket coming out of there. A point in this case was, it put me in a potentially extremely dangerous position to try to keep from just killing this guy. There were no rules and said we had to use a Taser and that kind of situation. We don’t hear that in the media however. The next time we were at yet another restaurant where another officer and I tried to get a drunk a ride home since he was passed out in the restaurant. This guy was about 300 pounds and decided to fight instead of taking a cab home. He charged and the other officer who sidestepped him in a great move and shoved him to the ground with us yelling for him to stay down. Wellll…. not when you are drunk. He came at me and I shot him with a Taser but 1 dart either didn’t hit him or it got ripped out. He threw my partner against the wall and made a Taser could have been used on his back but it is a one shot weapon and has to be manually reloaded. I used it as a stun gun (which doesn’t stun but is excruciatingly painful) and drove it into his back to get him off of my partner. He stood up looking away from me and picked up a metal sign made with square pipes. He swung it like a baseball bat at me but I couldn’t see it coming but the other officer could but couldn’t stop it. At literally the last moment I saw it and put my left arm up to try and block a pipe being swung by a 300 pound guy. Fortunately I caught part of the blow with my arm. The pipe still hit my face. My partner saw so much blood fly that he thought it knocked my eye out. I grabbed my face in an instant reaction and could feel the cuts open up. I was pretty much covered in blood and threw my Taser down and used my Asp metal baton. That ended it. I spent a couple of hours in the hospital that day, I think the 5th time in the line of duty. My left arm had about a 3 inch bruise from my wrist to my elbow where it took much of the blow. They X-rayed my hand twice because it hurt to move my fingers but there was no broken bones. I opted to had my left eyebrow glued back together in two places rather than being sutured. The reason for the stories is to emphasize the potential failures of a Taser at the risk of sn officers’s life. I almost lost my eye, possibly my life and spent time in the hospital from using a Taser in what was an unarmed man. So I have used one twice and neither time did it stop the attack and 1 time really cost me. I still think they are an awesome tool but the notion that an officer would face a deadly threat with a Taser is beyond stupid. I could give you other failures in my own department and at least two of which ended up causing a death, one from the Taser adding to a man’s injuries (I witnessed that one) and the other failure caused the suspect to be shot and killed.

This is yet another straw man. So the ignorant make the claim that a police officer should not shoot a guy with a two foot long knife. They turn around and say the same officer should bring a one shot electric weapon. If the weapon doesn’t work (and reportedly it did not) or if it misses, the officer is likely dead Don’t bring a gun to a knife fight… bring a Taser. A Taser is meant as a use of force to replace a baton. When I started in police work, almost 40 years ago, we had no pepper spray, and no Taser. We had our hands and a 26” wooden baton. If a person resisted arrest, and it was not a deadly force situation, the options were to put hands on him and strike with the hands or strike with the baton. That seemed crude to some people. The Taser is meant as a hands on weapon to keep from having to beat a man down. It is not and was never intended to be used against deadly force.

Anything the left elites don’t like is hate speech.

I hardly ever start a political thread and only comment on a couple but came here to post this about Gabbard. But it isn’t just Gabbard. The former deputy mayor, a lifelong Democrat, has come out publicly to go against his own party and support Dr. Oz as the Pennsylvania senator in the upcoming election over the Democrat, Fetterman. [Hidden Content] Tulsi Gabbard is hardly a strong conservative but even with her left leanings, can’t stomach the DNC anymore. I think she is probably 50/50 or a rare down the middle politician. Her problem with conservatives are issues like she is not a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, like she says she believes in it but then wants restrictions, etc. I am not sure where she will land, if anywhere, but it is nice to see her call out the silliness from the left side of the aisle.

They never had evidence. This was all about TV cameras going and TDS. Turn off the cameras for the dog and pony show and there’s not much need for a hearing.

This thread was posted to be a reminder to follow the rules of this website. It has been locked since it has now evolved into yet another thread debating coaches and in particular WOS.

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I think some woke employee threw that in there and it got past the people checking in. It took paypal about 30 seconds to disavow it.

Because things shouldn’t change!! Now, hand me a quarter so I can make a phone call…..

Yeah but…… No more crude talk and mean tweets.

Right now almost anything seems plausible.

Yes, the Democrats have become the party of freaks. I grew up in a time when the difference was whether affirmative action should correct a past wrong by instituting a new wrong or should we increase military spending over social services or vice versa. Both sides had valid opinions. Today for example, Florida just passed a law where elementary school teachers can’t discuss sex changes with children until they are 10 years old (which is still abhorrent to me) and the leftist Democrats are still screaming about it…. It is horrible that a teacher can’t discuss transgender and sex changes with a 6 year old!!! I don’t believe that many Democrat voters believe in some of that nonsense that is happening but they are either ignorant as to what is going on or they are so stuck in the home team that they turn a blind eye. Their argument? Hershel Walker says that he doesn’t believe in abortion but 10 years ago he may have helped a girlfriend get one. But what about stupid laws Democrats? We don’t care about that. We care that a decade ago Walker might have had a different opinion than he does today!! Remember that Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents ever and yet he was a Democrat governor of California. Wisdom and experience allows for a change.

That sounds like great tactics and good job by the officers. Going way out on a limb…. and from experience…. it sounds like a domestic issue with suspect and the woman. She ran home to dad to get away. The angry suspect doesn’t care and went in and shot both. A murder suicide with the suspect using suicide by police?

I believe each district sets its own tiebreakers. I thought but could certainly be wrong, that the UIL stays out of that. It could be a coin flip or total yardage, etc.

Ha… I started to post the same before I read your comment.

Yes, growing up should impart at least some wisdom.

Trans-friendly sex toys for children? Maybe they are texting with their iPhone in the womb….

Big win for HF

Where?

SF intercepted on last play of game.

!!final:18/41

PAT again bobbled by SF but Nederland stopped before they can return the point after.

!!score:18/41/4