I met a young woman in a restaurant bar several years ago. Skinny but looked quite athletic - fit. She was in town attending a business conference. I live here.
In the course of the conversation I learned that she is a MMA fighter. Shocking given her appearance. Quite attractive.
Anyhow she something to me that I had never thought about until then.

She said

"I am amazed how many people I meet who have never been hit in the face or fired a gun and I am not just talking about females

I thought that was a very interesting and disturbing insight to the reality of modern American life and culture.

3 or 4 generations of folks who have no concept of what it means to actually have to fight...

No wonder our culture is failing - all those pussified people are all grown up now

I think the officers were forced to do what they did

Not sure if troll or garbage person.

I have commented on this elsewhere but I will chime in anyway. In years past most officers killed by firearms were killed with their service weapon, which they lost in a struggle with a suspect. I have not seen the stats on this recently but would assume its still a relevant threat.
The thing I find interesting about this case is Georgia considers a taser a lethal weapon, in most if not all other parts of the country a tazer is considered a less than lethal weapon. So in Georgia when Mr. Brooks turned to fire the tazer, considered a lethal weapon in Georgia, the officers would be justified in shooting him. That being said, in the rest of the country I say this is a poor call on the officers part. The man was attempting to flee, the discharge of a less than lethal weapon, and the minor charges involved seem like a poor reason to shoot the man. Call in more people, setup a perimeter, call in bloodhounds and chase him. Just get a warrant and arrest him later. I am not bashing the officers by any means, its a hard job, and sometimes snap judgments are not the best. I am curious to see how this one plays out in court.

Let me preface my comment by saying "I should have Ignored the rude remark" But I'm 66 yo 5'11'' and weigh about 140 lbs. and one day I pulled over to check out a piece of furniture someone had put out to the side of the road. This when a passer by gave me a look and gesture. I responded by doing the same(see preface) which prompted him (a 6'4" body builder type) to pull over and proceed towards me (He reminded me of Brutus charging towards Popeye), when I saw his intent was not favorable, I reached into my car and pulled the first tool I could reach and in turn Brutus told me I was F'ing Crazy, turned around and Left.
My thought was , You were gonna show the onlookers how tough you were by beating and Old Guy half your weight and a head shorter, until I evened the odds. I think "F'ing Crazy" would have been to let him beat the snot out of me. Your thoughts?