chocho-akimichi:

I’ve had conversation with family friends who are former cops and they’ve all said the same thing. That cops are not supposed to kill. Period point blank. In a situation where they feel endangered they are supposed to call for back up and shoot to maim i.e shooting the person in the leg. Even before then they are supposed use their tasers, batons, pepper spray, hand-to-hand training, handcuffs and any other non lethal method at their disposal to subdue the person with minimal injuries. This is something that is reiterated through out their training. The fact that these cops are killing shows that they are doing it because they know they can get away with it.