Hm. They could start using that for willy-nilly deployment of the Tazer, too. After all, if the subject weren’t resisting, the Tazer wouldn’t even work!

Its how the psychologically justify their actions, its also how they provoke the pack response mentality.

There is a psychological term or classification for this act. I saw it used recently in an article describing how these flash mobs all get whipped into a frenzy then start hurting people. Like that flash mob in Philly did when they killed that old man.

What we are seeing here is no different, except the attackers are cloaked in police garb.

Just another mantra they chant to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

Its the same as them yelling for a person to stop resisting while 5 cops, piled onto of another person, all beat the crap out of the “suspect”…

We have reached a point where cops are now justifying murder of unarmed people by simple saying they thought they saw a gun…

Half of L.A. County ‘waistband shootings’ involve unarmed people…

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/23/local/la-me-unarmed-shootings-20110923

The murdering PIG should be in jail, pending his murder trail, and a potential death sentence.

I know, I know, PIGS are above the law, and peasants and serfs are subject to the law and random murder by the PIGS – especially if the peasnat is black.

Now, “I’m off my (or on unapproved) meds and hallucinated a purply-and-neon-spangly-starred-gun that shot beams of glitter and felt in fear for my cowardly life” is all it takes.

Preaching to the choir here, I know, but it is important to keep in mind:

- actually dangerous situations involving suspects with guns seem to cause a shift in police tactics, involving waiting the suspect out. Actual situations vary, of course, but this Rambo shit seems to generally not happen when they know ahead of time that the situation is dangerous.*

- “they’re just a bunch of fascists” isn’t a good explanation for why cops act like this. There are deeper causes behind the absurd, tragic militarization of peace officers.

– As ubiquitous surveillance becomes the norm, people need to ensure that access is as open as possible. *

* there are second order implications there about surveillance that I’m not getting in to here, but are important. Yes, same footnote for both.

Apparently, the NYPD did leard one lesson from the 41 shots fired at Amadou Diallo, they have added this to their “prepared remarks” in all shootings: Haste’s partner told investigators that Haste . . . yelled “gun, gun” before firing, Kelly said.