Brooklyn Center mayor says he
doesn't 'believe' police officers
'necessarily have weapons every
time they're making a traffic stop'
Washington Examiner,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/14/2021 8:19:55 AM
The mayor of the Minnesota town where a 20-year-old black man was recently shot and killed while in police custody says he doesn’t believe police always need to carry weapons. "I don't believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they're making a traffic stop,” Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mayor Mike Elliott said during a press conference Tuesday in response to the shooting death of Daunte Wright on Sunday. (Tweet) Body camera footage shows a struggle between Wright and police officers as he is being arrested, and Wright at one point attempts to flee in his car as an
The mayor signaling that he’s an idiot...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/14/2021 8:31:18 AM (No. 754242)
I wonder if the merit system will ever come back.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/14/2021 8:32:02 AM (No. 754243)
Moron. As if an officer always knows who is dangerous as soon as they signal a stop. But then who gives a damn but family when a cop is murdered?
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I suggest as part of this implementation, the mayor should be required to go on a 30-day ride along with the police and at every traffic stop, he must stand right next to the officer on the driver side. He wouldn't last a day!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mifla 4/14/2021 8:51:23 AM (No. 754277)
OK Mayor. Resign, join the police force and show us all how it is done.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
valinva 4/14/2021 8:54:26 AM (No. 754285)
Keep this up and you won't need to defund the police because they will all quit. Police should just ride around all day and never get out of their cars. They can just yell 'hey stop that' over their loudspeaker when they see anyone breaking the law.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
blueline 4/14/2021 8:57:06 AM (No. 754294)
Give him his ID10T award for one of the most ignorant utterances thus far this year.
The whole freakin' department needs to quit now before this moron gets them killed.
Friends, police departments are understaffed across the country; recruiters are scrambling to find applicants for the job; experienced officers are getting out in droves, and many who remain on the job are avoiding self-initiated, proactive policing because they don't want to be the next sacrifice to BLM & their media partners. I don't think anything good is going to come from all this, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we don't need the police anymore.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/14/2021 9:01:22 AM (No. 754300)
This is right up there with Joe Biden saying "shoot them in the leg" or do like the old west shoot the gun out of the crooks hand but you don't have to kill them. Stupidity knows no bounds.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/14/2021 9:15:37 AM (No. 754315)
Not to worry Mayor Mike. Soon your little crummy haval of a city will be a full blown Hades Hole. Brought to you by BLM rioters du jour.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
downnout 4/14/2021 10:14:13 AM (No. 754402)
Tell that to the family of the police officer killed in New Mexico.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/14/2021 10:48:12 AM (No. 754447)
The idiocy in this case spreads across several actors. The perp was a fool trying to escape after originally appearing to be cooperative. The officer who "mistook" her sidearm for her taser. The mayor in his remarks. Oddly, no one seems to mention that the officer initially trying to cuff the perp is black.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2021 11:27:09 AM (No. 754525)
A traffic stop is THE most dangerous thing a police officer ever does. I have had one officer friend and shooting buddy shot in the head by a guy on a speeding stop in a 'nice part of town'. Fortunately, my friend saw the gun coming up at the last second and jerked back, and the wound, while serious was not fatal, and he fully recovered.
Many officers are shot during a traffic stop every year.
This mayor is a total idiot. Put him out there and have him run traffic stops for a week. If he survives, he'll have a different view.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/14/2021 12:40:18 PM (No. 754652)
Agree #1 and he looks like he’s twelve. I saw him on TV practically pleading with the activists to be quiet because they will get everything they want and definitely including no due process.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/14/2021 12:44:01 PM (No. 754663)
The mayor looks like he’s twelve. He looked scared to death of the activists who seem to be running this show.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/14/2021 1:17:54 PM (No. 754713)
Re: #12 - I agree that making a traffic stop is extremely dangerous no matter the location or time of day, LEOs are typically trained that it is answering the domestic violence call where the officer has the greatest chance of being cut, shot, or killed, often by the person making the call. My own observation differs completely; it is executing a high risk warrant that is most dangerous, which is why many departments at local, state, and federal levels use SWAT teams for this purpose.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/14/2021 3:10:48 PM (No. 754786)
One of our local deputies was making a traffic stop a few months ago. He didn't even get a chance to ask the perp for his DL and got shot point-blank in his chest. Thankfully his vest saved him. The bad guys fled and wrecked during the ensuing chase. One was caught a day later but the other avoided capture until he got in a gunfight with a homeowner. Both were wounded but survived. This is rural Georgia and relatively peaceful. If I had to patrol in some Dem-run hellhole there is no way I would give up my gun. The left lacks even a semblance of common sense.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 4/14/2021 3:27:23 PM (No. 754802)
We don't need this clown in the police force. He'd likely get somebody else killed. He should resign and go back to kindergarten.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rochow 4/14/2021 4:55:43 PM (No. 754875)
This dumb jerk is a mayor??? I forgot, he is a dem., and every place, city, town, state run by a dem is a sewer hell hole!
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Who would ever stop for the police then? Might as well have the pre-school crossing guard patrolling the streets.