By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA
March 4, 2013
There have been five officer involved shooting deaths in the greater Bay Area in the last four days. That is leading a few morons to wonder if the cops are being unduly aggressive or are inadequately trained in alternatives to violence. The SF Chronicle points out with a considerable degree of fairness that the cops were the targets of assaultive behavior in each of these instances.
Civil rights attorney John Burris, a large part of whose business is suing police departments, ascribes these actions to a siege mentality on the part of the cops.
The most recent instance went down in Hayward, when a cop shot and killed a man who was attempting to deliberately ram his patrol car, which had a civilian ride-along in it at the time. The attacker did ram the police car, slightly injuring the ride-along. A passenger in the car died as a result of gunshot wounds and the car crash. The injured driver fled but was captured and may be charged with murder in his passenger’s death.
I strongly suspect the best way to avoid being killed by the police is to not flee from them, and not try to kill them.
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