Something is wrong with cops these days. They are killing innocent people like Sean Bell before his marriage. Cops shot him 50 times. This happened at Bell's bachalor party. He was in the car with 2 of his friends. Both of his friends were also hurt by the gun shoots and they were hospitalized. In 1999, there was another case of cops killing another victim, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, shooting him 19 times in less than 10 seconds rupturing his aorta, spinal cord, lungs, liver, spleen, kidney, and intestines-and causing his immediate death. It is not fair that innocent people like these have to be killed by police men. Especially Sean Bell the night before his wedding. If only there was a way to reduce the amount of deaths caused by cops.
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Why were they shot?
Cops do not just randomly shoot people, nonetheless, 50 times. Cops are authorized to shoot when they are in a life-threatening situation, even if the assailant has only a baseball bat and is threatening to kill them. Cops are legally allowed in most jurisdictions to shoot and kill anyone within 21 feet if armed because at that distance a cop cannot pull out his weapon to defend himself quick enough to protect himself if the suspect charges.
Many officers are also taught to shoot to kill, not to shoot in the kneecaps or some random place so the person lives a paralyzed life or can continue to fire his (or her) own weapon back.
Police Officers have a very, very, very dangerous job which is often completely under appreciated. People are so quick to criticize police - until they need them. I agree that there are times when people are in the line of fire and shouldn't be, and there is no excuse for that. However, you must consider that many times the media twists their stories to make the "victims" (or criminals, as the police were there for some reason, not out on a killing spree) seem as if they were completely innocent. Police bashing is well known to be one of the media's favorite pastimes.
Get yourself into a deadly force encounter and see how you react...maybe not as well as you think.
Until you've been there, you haven't the experience, or the privelege to judge the one's who have.
Enough said.