Nazaroo
New member
One person's version of story.
When someone invades your personal space, who pushed who is difficult to determine.
I am reasonably guessing that the person blocking the door wasn't moving,
while the person trying to enter WAS moving.
Anyway, they had moved away from the restroom to the parking lot,
so there was no 'emergency' requiring gunfire.
It would have been advisable for the family to leave the property entirely,
but I strongly suspect that two security guys were preventing them from doing so.
In any case, had they left, a reasonable thing to do,
the police would only have one side of the story, the Walmart mall-cops' version.
The result would have been a police chase involving vehicles,
in which (as we've seen recently) police feel authorized to shoot people
for minor motor vehicle violations.
In a court, leaving the scene would have played out against the family.
Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The fact that the family stayed to talk to police, and tell their side,
while leaving the building and staying together by their vehicle,
speaks volumes about their cooperative and law-abiding nature.
They had the full and reasonable expectation that when the police arrived,
they would be interviewed and tell their side of the story.
Instead, the hot-headed police charged in on the family,
causing a defensive reaction that was violently overpowered
by armed, trained (and I use that term loosely) combatants
with firearms and batons.
Five minutes of discussion would have defused the situation,
which was in essence a family domestic disturbance at a restroom.
Citizens have a (now mistaken) expectation that when police arrive,
they will be treated like fellow citizens, shown respect, and
be questioned so that their side of any fracas can be heard.
They don't expect cops to charge in like little dictators,
commanding people to be separated, handcuffed, and thrown to the ground.
The problem here is one of perception:
Naive law-abiding citizens are expecting cops to behave like peace officers,
and show fairness and neutrality in settling minor disputes among
basically harmless and unarmed groups in situations where emotions have escalated.
But police in the USA and elsewhere have taken on new and disturbing tactics,
that wouldn't have even been conceived in 1960.
Clearly the age of the local peace officer separating disputing parties
and defusing emotional confrontations is long gone.
In its place is a Soviet/Nazi style of policing, where
cops rush in like army soldiers, with a full-scale assault,
ready to use lethal force to assert their authority,
even in the most minor and unimportant misdemeanor-altercations.
Every citizen is apparently now expected to immediately lay on the ground face down,
let their hands be cuffed behind their back while a half-dozen paramilitary goons
kick and bruise them, while shouting "stop resisting".
Should a citizen happen to die from the shock of beating, tasering or choke-outs,
well, they shouldn't have been outside of their house on 'private property' in public.
