#Atlanta firearms training

[southatlantafirearms]

In the field of firearm safety and training, the ability to successfully integrate theoretical knowledge into practical abilities is essential. South Atlantic Firearms Training (SAFT) stands out by using new training methodologies that not only teach handgun safety but also prepare trainees for real-world events. SAFT improves learning and retention by using interactive simulations, live-fire drills, and scenario-based exercises, ensuring that gun owners are confident and competent in dealing with a variety of situations. It is one of the best Georgia firearms training academy. 

[dyns33]

Dead man walking

He's an ass, but I love Shane, so I'm writing some Shane's stories now.

Shane had called her when it all started. Even though he didn't want to believe it was serious, his instinct told him to call her, and Y/N answered while continuing to watch TV.

They had been together for a little over a month.

After what happened to his best friend and partner, Shane went to bars a lot, drank a lot, got into fights, and found a different girl to spend the night with.

When he approached Y/N, she knew he wasn't looking for anything serious, but above all she saw the sadness in his eyes, the desperation in his forced smile, the loneliness in the hand that touched her shoulder.

They had discussed. A lot of talking, and not the stupid, insubstantial discussions he had with all the other girls.

It surprised Shane that someone was interested in him. Really interested in him, not just his looks, his attitude, his invitation to jump into bed. He wasn't used to it.

Usually, people saw an idiot, an asshole, a seducer, a fighter, but nothing more. Before, people didn't really see him most of the time, because they were too busy seeing Rick.

He had cried that evening, in the arms of Y/N, who had comforted him with great patience and gentleness.

Shane had fallen in love. It was new to him, but not unpleasant. He had always dreamed of having a family, like his best friend. He wished he was there to share his happiness, but he talked to him all the time about Y/N when he went to the hospital.

Then there were the announcements. While Y/N was on a business trip to Jacksonville. 5 hours drive drom Atlanta.

Shane called her because some people losing their minds and attacking other people wasn't normal. He wanted to check that she was okay. He asked her if she was going to come home early.

As this did not seem to disrupt her boss's plans, she told him that she would be home as planned the following week.

"I miss you, baby. I don't like you being so far away." he sighed, realizing that he couldn't convince her to jump in her car.

“Everything will be fine, we’ll be together soon.”

Two days later, it was already chaos. There were no more telephones, everyone was running in the streets, the highways were blocked, there were no planes or trains.

Y/N witnessed terrible scenes. Dead people rising to eat the living. With a small group, she managed to hide in the woods, with water and food. It wouldn't last, even if they were safe.

But all she could think about was Shane. She had to find Shane.

Without a car or any other means of transportation, 5 hours became a lot longer to get home. If he was still home. If he was okay… No, she didn't want to think about that. Y/N knew Shane, he was alive, she was sure of it.

An excellent shooting instructor, he had taught her how to handle several firearms. She stole some from an abandoned gun store, with a knife, and after filling her backpack with provisions, she headed to Atlanta.

Avoiding the roads, making no noise, sleeping in trees, Y/N approached the goal after several weeks. She had been forced to fight, and kill some walkers, and that allowed her to discover that they detected her less easily when she was covered in their blood.

It was a real relief to see the town sign. Then she lost hope a bit, seeing that the streets were deserted. There was little chance Shane would have stayed here.

Maybe he had decided to join her, and their paths had crossed. Y/N went into the forest to rest, and she saw a camp from afar.

Suspicious, she used her sniper to determine if the survivors looked dangerous. There were women, a man on a camper van, kids.

Continuing to observe, she saw a couple away from the group, as if they were hiding.

The woman looked familiar. Y/N was sure she had seen her before. When they separated, she almost dropped her gun.

Shane. Shane and Lorie, Rick's wife, his best friend. Kissing.

She had to put her hand over her mouth to stifle the cry that wanted to come out, tears streaming down her cheeks. While she was risking her life to find him, Shane was sleeping with another woman, quietly installed in a camp, not caring at all about her.

If she had wanted, she could have shot them in the head before leaving.

But she held back, crying silently in a tree. She stayed there for several days, not knowing what she was going to do next. Her reason for living was to find Shane, she had no purpose now.

When the camp became agitated, she used her sniper again, seeing a sheriff approach, taking Shane in his arms, then kissing Lorie and her son.

Rick. The friend in a coma. He was alive, he was back, and he was going to cause a big mess. This made her smile. She really wanted to see what that would be like, so she decided to follow them.

They made a lot of bad decisions along the way, but Y/N could understand that it was more complicated to survive as a group. She saw the girl coming out from under the car, panicking.

Even though she was further away, Y/N observed her trajectory and she ran very quickly to catch up, while the group pushed the dead away.

Sophia was an annoying little girl. Stubborn. But after Y/N killed the walkers chasing her, she agreed to trust her, taking her hand to return to the group.

They had moved, again, so it wasn't easy.

Y/N didn’t really want to talk to them. To talk to Shane. But she couldn't leave a child alone.

The farm was in the middle of nowhere, but you could see it was inhabited. She approached slowly, her weapon against her chest, Sophia remaining behind her.

Rick was the first to come towards them, his eyes bright and smiling when he saw the little one, thanking Y/N for finding her. Her mother followed, then everyone else.

Shane's look was indescribable. He stopped in the middle of the camp, as if unsure of what he was seeing. For a moment, Y/N wondered if he was going to look at Lorie, hesitate because of what he had done, but instead he let out a huge scream.

He screamed her name, running like crazy towards her to hug and kiss her, surprising everyone.

"Y/N ! Y/N, you're alive ! You're here ! I can't believe you're here ! I thought…I'm a moron, sorry. Forgive me."

“I told you I was going to come home.” she said coldly.

"Oh, baby… I wanted to find you, but I had to take care of the group. They needed me."

“Yes, I noticed they had certain needs.”

He didn't seem to understand her sentence, but Shane didn't have time to ask her any questions, the others inviting them to enter the farm to rest, and for Y/N to tell them her story.

Strangely, some people knew who she was. Shane had talked about her, even if the subject made him melancholic and aggressive. They knew she was far away when it all started, and no one thought she would make it here, even if she was still alive.

Shane hadn't thought she was alive. This hurt her deeply, on top of everything else. She suddenly felt dead inside, remembering herself walking for hours, days, weeks, just to find him, just like those inhuman things.

She was able to hurt him in turn when Rick said that they were lucky that she arrived at the moment when Sophia separated from the group, and she contradicted him, revealing that she had been following them for several weeks.

"… What ? You found us several weeks ago and… And you didn't say anything ?"

"I was watching from afar. I saw… a lot of things."

Her eyes quickly landed on Lorie, who trembled, understanding what Y/N meant. Shane understood too, swallowing what he was going to say as he looked down in shame.

Not wanting to create discord when their son Carl had been injured, Y/N said nothing, finding a corner of the house to sleep. She thought things wouldn't go any further for tonight, but she had forgotten what Shane was like.

Once everyone was asleep, he snuck over to her corner, lying down next to her.

"I'm glad you're alive. I love you."

“Shut up, Shane.”

"I'm sorry." he sighed, staring at the ceiling, his hand still remaining close to hers. "I thought… At first, I wanted to keep hope. Then seeing all this shit, I thought it would be better if you weren't here anymore. I didn't want to imagine you alone, trying to survive. It was already horrible here, and I had people I knew. You have to understand… We felt alone and lost. We needed comfort. It was nothing else, and we weren't proud of it. I thought about Rick all the time, and about you, but I needed that to keep from breaking down. Do you understand ? Can you forgive me, baby ? My darling, my love ? I only love you, I swear.”

It still hurt, but Y/N could understand.

Nothing was simple, everything had changed. She wanted Shane to go looking for her, but he might have died on the road. She would have liked him not to sleep with another woman, but he might have lost his mind with the pressure and depression. She would have wanted him to keep hope, but this hope would have eaten away at him, torn from the inside, because he wouldn't have known what to do between staying with the group and leaving.

It hurt, but she couldn't judge him. He thought she was dead, he thought Rick was dead, the world was on fire, and he just wanted to hold on to something.

Gently, she took his hand, and she heard him sob, turning his head towards her to place it on her shoulder, kissing her skin.

"I only need you, baby. Always have."

“You’re still so excessive.”

“Yeah, and you love me like that.” he purred, clinging completely to her. "You don't know how happy I am that you're here. Fuck. I didn't think I could still be happy like this."

Y/N didn’t tell him that she was going to need time to completely forgive him. She didn't tell him that Rick would eventually find out too. She also didn't know that they were going to run into a lot of other problems, within the group and because of everything that was going on.

No, she decided not to ruin this moment, for which she had traveled several kilometers, taking him in her arms as during their first meeting.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

A quick summary:

Atlanta Police want to spend $90M to turn 85-acre urban forest into a training facility for police. Because it will include shooting range and model city it’s been called “Cop City”

The project does not have great community support, and starting late 2021 the forest had been defended with activists.

Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (also known as Tortuguita and Tort) was part of an activist group at an encampment at the site protesting the development. They are also non-binary.

On January 18, 2023 police raided the site, and claiming that Tort fired and shot an officer, police fired on Tort killing them.

On February 19, body camera footage was released where officers are heard making statements that suggest the officer was hit from friendly fire. Atlanta police deny this and continue to claim Tort fired first.

Autopsy results show that Tort was shot 13 times, including in both hands suggesting that he was shot with his hands raised in surrender and not (as claimed) using a firearm.

[brattylikestoeat]

Would you suggest others learn how to handle a gun?

Yes but only if you are willing to get trained. My Introduction to guns started with Chez. He didn’t have any formal training.

Donald taught me how to safely handle a gun.

So I would recommend you get a license teacher. I know Atlanta has a all women group, the do both class training and range training.

Anyone can carry a firearm but the goal should is to be comfortable and confident carrying a gun.



[thatstormygeek]

At the University of Texas in Austin, right-wing authoritarian Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a large helmeted brigade of state troopers to march through the heart of his state’s flagship campus and shut down a pro-Palestinian protest that he’d branded as violent and antisemitic even before the event had actually started. Prosecutors later dropped all criminal charges against 57 UT students and others arrested by Abbott’s army, saying the arrests “lacked probable cause.” The riot cops were photographed marching past a UT promotional sign, “What starts here changes the world …” Students at two large Midwestern schools — Indiana and Ohio State Universities — who grew up on active shooter drills were shocked to look up during their campus protests to see what appeared to be trained police snipers aiming long guns at the action. IU officials stayed mum about what seemed to be photographic proof. In Ohio, where the volley of National Guard shots that killed four students at Kent State University at a May 4, 1970, protest still echoes today, OSU officials called the rooftop officers just spotters before admitting they’d “switched to long-range firearms” at night “once the troopers began using force on the students.” Apparently “using force on the students” wasn’t a problem for them. Some of the most shocking footage came from Atlanta, involving police and the state troopers who in 2023 had shot and killed a protester against the police training center known to foes as “Cop City.” Multiple videos from Emory University showed a string of violent arrests, including a young Black man who was shot with a Taser even though officers had immobilized him on the ground. When an Emory economics professor, Caroline Fohlin, saw a cop violently arresting a student and screamed, “What are you doing?!,” a second officer grabbed her and slammed her hard to the ground, her head against the hard pavement, as she screamed, “I’m a professor.” Fohlin, who was shown on video doing no more than raising her voice, was charged with “battery” against a police officer. One of the most chilling videos from Georgia, ironically, shows no violence at all. In it, Noëlle McAfee, chair of Emory’s philosophy department, stylishly dressed, handbag slung over her shoulder, is led away in handcuffs by a masked officer. She later told a faculty meeting that, like Fohlin, her supposed crime was questioning an officer making a violent arrest of a student.

I’d kind of like to call the philosophy department myself, in the hope that some beautiful mind there can explain to me how college presidents can morally justify calling armed police officers against their own students to clamp down on free speech, beyond their desperation to stay employed. Or maybe someone in Fohlin’s economics department could pick up the line and do the math for me on why America’s best universities value their biggest donors over their students’ free expression. The most tumultuous week on U.S. college campuses since May 1970 resulted in at least 600 arrests at 15 different schools as of Saturday, with more surely on the way. It’s going to take even longer to tally all the students facing suspension and in some cases expulsion for speaking out on the bloodshed in Gaza, or the now-ruined careers of principled professors who stood between their students and a nightstick. Not to mention the lasting psychological scars for young people who saw their dream college summon cops to arrest them or even fire rubber bullets or canisters of tear gas at them, which would be considered a war crime if used in Ukraine but is apparently OK in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown of Atlanta. The notion of college as the American dream — fostering not just upward economic mobility but a nation of informed citizens taught to think critically — has been steadily dying since the original right-wing backlash against student protest in the 1960s triggered the end of taxpayer support for low tuition, which caused a $1.75 trillion student loan crisis. The maelstrom around the war in the Middle East has given the enemies of higher education — and they are many — a chance to move in for the kill.

But the biggest problem is the large mass of Americans sitting on the couch and saying absolutely nothing, glued to the nonstop Trump Court TV that cable news has become, watching pundits fret that democracy will die in the November election even as a runaway police state already clamps down in April. Look, the threat of a Trump 47 dictatorship is real, and last week’s three-hour Supreme Court debate over whether any president is above the law was riveting, even if in a healthy republic it would have lasted just three minutes. Too many boomer “Trump Resistance” types see the wave of college arrests as a distraction, a sideshow. Trust me, this is the entire ballgame. Ending free speech on college campuses is the leading edge of a bigger war against dissent that could already be lost by Nov. 5, and any contest of the election result that follows. I’m sure Congress and President Joe Biden have some valid concerns about Chinese ownership of TikTok, but I doubt lawmakers would have moved so quickly to threaten a large media platform with extinction were it not for fear that too many young people are exposed to ideas they find dangerous. The chaos on college campuses is already being cited to curb other protests, such as moving demonstrators far away from July’s Republican National Convention so they can’t be heard. Democracy defenders might find the battle to stop a second Jan. 6 coup was lost on the playing fields of Emory.

[graymanbriefing]

Civil Unrest / Societal Collapse / Citizen Actions Brief: National Summary In Grinnell, IA on October 5th; protestors disrupted a political event hosted by Republican presidenti...(CLASSIFIED) In Portland, OR on October 9th; protestors rallied at Tigard-Tualatin School District calling for action to be taken after a transgender student assaulted another student. Protestors associate...(CLASSIFIED) In Chicago, IL; 500+ parents/neighbors gathered in protest of an illegal immigrant shelter being established at a neighborhood youth fieldhouse. The Mayor assigned mu...(CLASSIFIED) In Canada; 100,000+ join in rallies and marches nationwide to protest against LGBT indoctrination in public schools. On October 21st, the p...(CLASSIFIED) In Atlanta GA; according to reports released on October 6th, the shooting of a "Stop Cop City" extremist/activist, Manuel Teran, was justified.  The Antifa/LGBT affiliated activist was killed by law enforcement after he and 100+ others raided, vandalized, and occupied the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site on January 18th, 2023. The deceased activist took shelter in a tent as police ordered him to exit, police then used "less lethal" pepper balls to expel him. The activist, who was armed, responded by "shooting four (4) times his 9 mm pistol throug...(CLASSIFIED) In Lansing, MI: 100+ supporters of the 2nd Amendment held a rally at the Michigan State Capitol. Some protestors openly carried firearms. Some rep...(CLASSIFIED) In New York and Middle East; the New York City Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America organized a protest today to "stand with the people of Palestine, who have the right to resist apartheid, occupation & oppression". U.S. House Representative Ilhan Omar also pro...(CLASSIFIED) In San Jose, CA; far-left protestors disrupted a "Turning Point USA" event a...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide; protests related to the attack on Israel are occurring. In Washington, DC; 1,000+ pro-Palestinian protestors rallied outside the White House chanting "Resistance is justified when people are occupied". In Fort Lauderdale, FL; pr...(CLASSIFIED, see full brief at www.graymanbriefing.com)

[atlantaantifascists]

Crosspost

RT Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists Colorado Springs PD will try to entrap and disarm leftists simply for training with firearms, while letting the Club Q shooter keep his, even after arresting him for threatening to kill his mother with them. Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists: UPDATE: Colorado Springs Police attempted to manufacture a firearms trafficking conspiracy by encouraging leftists to make illegal firearms purchases. We have published statements on our site from two people CSPD Officer April Rogers tried to entrap.  https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2022/03/07/aprilrogers/ via Atlanta Antifascists Twitter (https://twitter.com/COSAntiFascists/status/1594453874537992192)

[ssctraining]

Letting anyone train you about firearms can be detrimental. Just because they’re “familiar” with firearms...or were in the military or law enforcement...doesn’t automatically mean they know how to adequately and SAFELY teach. Seek out a professional. Teaching is a profession. It is methodical and has specific processes in place to assure student safety. I don’t know the “instructor” in this particular video...but I do low that this negligent incident was 100% avoidable. I originally posted this as a story on my page but decided it was worth having as a permanent post. I’ve said this time and time again...Fail to follow the 4 A.C.T.S. of Firearms Safety and bad things WILL happen. Unfortunately it cost this young lady her life in this instance. Train safe. 🙏🏾 ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* #safetyfirst #firearms #training #atlanta #gun #safety #class #pistol #rifle #shotgun #2ndamendment #selfdefense #homedefense #protection #cometrainwithme #superiorsecurityconcepts https://www.instagram.com/p/CHv5q-7JNdf/?igshid=mba5un7nqzj4

[southatlantafirearms]

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[saberteam]

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[strictlyforliterarypurposes]

Dashiel Hammett’s 24 Rules For Detective Writers.

Dashiell Hammett (born 27 May 1894, died 10 January 1961) was an American author who was famous for his hard-boiled detective novels, short stories, and screenplays. Hammett is regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time and his works of fiction include titles like The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.

There was an automatic revolver, the Webley-Fosbery, made in England some years ago. The ordinary automatic pistol, however, is not a revolver. A pistol, to be a revolver, must have something on it that revolves.

The Colt’s .45 automatic pistol has no chambers. The cartridges are put in a magazine.

A silencer may be attached to a revolver, but the effect will be altogether negligible. I have never seen a silencer used on an automatic pistol, but am told it would still make quite a bit of noise. “Silencer” is a rather optimistic name for this device which has generally fallen into disuse.

When a bullet from a Colt’s .45, or any firearm of approximately the same size and power, hits you, even if not in a fatal spot, it usually knocks you over. It is quite upsetting at any reasonable range.

A shot or stab wound is simply felt as a blow or push at first. It is some little time before any burning or other painful sensation begins.

When you are knocked unconscious you do not feel the blow that does it.

A wound made after death of the wounded is usually recognizable as such.

Fingerprints of any value to the police are seldom found on anybody’s skin.

The pupils of many drug addicts’ eyes are apparently normal.

It is impossible to see anything by the flash of an ordinary gun, though it is easy to imagine you have seen things.

Not nearly so much can be seen by moonlight as you imagine. This is especially true of colours.

All Federal snoopers are not members of the Secret Service. That branch is chiefly occupied with pursuing counterfeiters and guarding Presidents and prominent visitors to our shores.

A sheriff is a county officer who usually has no official connection with city, town or state police.

Federal prisoners convicted in Washington, D.C., are usually sent to the Atlanta prison and not to Leavenworth.

The California State prison at San Quentin is used for convicts serving first terms. Two-time losers are usually sent to Folsom.

Ventriloquists do not actually “throw” their voices and such doubtful illusions as they manage depend on their gestures. Nothing at all could be done by a ventriloquist standing behind his audience.

Even detectives who drop their final g’s should not be made to say “anythin'” an oddity that calls for vocal acrobatics.

“Youse” is the plural of “you”.

A trained detective shadowing a subject does not ordinarily leap from doorway to doorway and does not hide behind trees and poles. He knows no harm is done if the subject sees him now and then.

The current practice in most places in the United States is to make the coroner’s inquest an empty formality in which nothing much is brought out except that somebody has died.

Fingerprints are fragile affairs. Wrapping a pistol or other small object up in a handkerchief is much more likely to obliterate than to preserve any prints it may have.

When an automatic pistol is fired the empty cartridge shell flies out the right-hand side. The empty cartridge case remains in a revolver until ejected by hand.

A lawyer cannot impeach his own witness.

The length of time a corpse has been a corpse can be approximated by an experienced physician, but only approximated, and the longer it has been a corpse, the less accurate the approximation is likely to be.

[humble-boness]

References on International Police Conduct

22.04.2021

Dear all,

Today I planned to come back after dealing with personal issues, thinking I would be posting my usual journal spreads. But Mod Goldfish had directed my attention to another police killing taking part in Ohio of Ma'Khia Bryant. Police has released a body cam video with unprecedented speed to support one side of the narrative, as opinions remain varied and divided. Witnesses interviewed by NY Times (just stop the refresh button to avoid the paywall) gave an account on Ma'Khia Bryant as a 16-year-old student, a teenager, and a foster child.

This blog has been intended by Goldfish and me to be educational and we will not provide personal opinions until more information comes to light (other witnesses are accounting in the Ohio Bureaucracy of Crime Investigation).

Therefore, our part in this event will be to provide further information while acknowledging the tension and anger over police killing. Goldfish is from Taiwan and lives in the U.S. I am from Vietnam and live in the Netherlands. As you can see, we have wide experiences with differences in the legal enforcement.

Read below for our references where we compare the U.S police in training, firearm use, and spending to other countries (OECD, EU, etc).

Why does the treatment of the police discriminate between mass-shooters responsible for the Indianapolis FedEx facility, Atlanta Spa, and Charleston Church Shootings and Ma'Khia Bryant?

Why are the officer's responses to calls so excessive to many of us, but not to others?

This reference will provide insight into the two questions above. It provided comparisons between the U.S and different democratic countries. In this article, you will also find...

The U.S police killed 16 times more than Dutch police per 10 million people in 2019, and had 1099 total killings compared to Dutch Police's 4 cases. The second country on the chart, Canada, reported 36 total killings in the same year (2019).

Training duration: U.S police training programs are 21-week long in average while equivalent European trainings take 3 years.

The training focus of the U.S also differs from other countries:

U.S academies on average spent the most time—71 hours—on firearm skills, compared with 21 hours on de-escalation training and crisis-intervention strategies. In comparison, the time spent on non-violent responses were less than one-third of the time spent on violent skills. In Germany, firearms training focuses on how to avoid using force. Skye had personally calculated the hours spent through 3 training sections of the German force and found that 96 hours in total were spent on social skills while 124 hours were spent on firearm training. HOWEVER, 162 hours were spent on intervention skills and self-defense. Summing up hours on non-violent deescalation skills yielded a total 258 hours, more than twice the hours spent on firearm training. Japanese officers are trained to use martial arts.

Here is the pdf references not just on Germany but other countries, U.S included for you to research and come to your own conclusions.

This is not to say other countries' police forces are free of corruption and violence (pdf) but our information had shown very strong differences in the U.S police force that has been responsible for the over-represented number of Black civilians in police killing.

Here are more resources:

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summarizes law enforcement structures in fifty-seven countries.

Dutch Police firearms use- where you find that if the officer fired their firearm one or more times, they still need to report it even if the shots had no consequences. Even the use of handcuffs is highly regulated by the law; not all officers (peace officers, etc) are permitted to use handcuffs.

This list is not exhaustive and humble-boness are open for conversations related to this human issue that has been psychologically proven to be influenced by racial discrimination and violence exposure. As academics, we want to provide understanding and encourage others to be more active in changing the realities in their local communities.

[that-enby-who-supports-everyone]

Rayshard Brooks

Who Is Rayshard Brooks??

Rayshard was a 27 year old African American restaurant worker from Atlanta. He was married for eight ears and has 3 daughters- 1,2 and 8 and a stepson-13. In August 2014 he was convicted and sentenced to 1 year in prison on four counts, these included false imprisonment and cruelty to children. 2 years later he was sentenced to another year for violating his probation. February 2020 he spoke in an interview about life in and outside of prison. He discussed the difficulty to find work after being released and other other difficulties people faced after prison.

Who Is Garrett Rolfe?

He had been a police officer in Atlanta Police Department since 2013 and was part of the 'driving under the influence' department. He received a written reprimand for aiming his gun at a stolen car being pursued in 2016, a firearm was recovered from the stolen car later on. He was honoured by 'Mothers Against Drunk Driving' in May 2019 for over 50 DUI arrests in 2018. Early 2020 he undertook training in the use of deadly force and in de-escalation.

What Happened??

THE DRIVE THROUGH Officers were called out to a Wendy's drive-through in South Atlanta around 22:33 on 12th June 2020. Rayshard had fallen asleep in his car, blocking access to the drive-through. Devin Brosnan arrived at the scene at 22:41, time taken from bodycam. Brosnan approached the car and knocked multiple times before he opened the door. Brosnan tells Brooks that he's parked in the middle of the drive-thru lane. It takes Brooks a moment to wake up, once he does he is instructed to pull over in a parking spot. Brooks followed the instructions, Brosnan asks Brooks how much he has had to drink. Brooks responded with not much about one drink. Brosnan checked his licence and a few minutes later radioed for back up from another officer. 22:56 Garrett Rolfe arrived. Rolfe interviewed Brooks and asked him what happened that night. Brooks stated that he was dropped off by a friend in another car but Rolfe was unconvinced by this. Both officers checked Brooks making sure he wasn't armed then asked him to do a sobriety test. Rolfe conducted the test, which started 23:00 and lasted around seven minutes, throughout this Brooks appeared calm. Brooks is asked to use a breathalyser, part of test. Whilst waiting for the results Brooks said that he had been drinking at his daughter's birthday party. During the 41 minutes of questioning Brooks complied with the officers. Once the test was completed Rolfe informed Brooks that he'd had too much to drink and to put his hands behind his back. THE ARREST Rolfe attempted to handcuff Brooks, a struggle followed. 23:23, the bodycams worn by both Rolfe and Brosnan fell to the floor. A dashcam from one of the officer's cars and several bystanders documented what followed. The officers wrestled Brooks to the floor shouting "stop fighting" and "hands off the taser." One of them shouted "you're going to get tased." Brooks managed to wriggle free, grabbing Brosnan's taser and punching Rolfe in the process. Brooks turned and ran clutching the taser in one hand. THE SHOOTING The only known footage of the fatal shooting came from a CCTV camera at Wendy's. During the chase, Rolfe switched the taser from his right hand to his left as he reached for his handgun. Brooks turned around and pointed the taser at Rolfe before he fired it. Rolfe drew his gun, dropped his taser and shot at Brooks. 3 shots were heard at the same time on the video captured by the dashcam. Brooks was 18ft from the officers when he was hit in the back twice. The third bullet hit a witness' vehicle. In the CCTV footage Brooks slumped to the ground. He remained on the floor for the rest of the video, the officers stood over his body. From the video it's unclear whether they attempted to provide medical help. Prosecutors have said Rolfe kicked Brooks as he lay on the ground, and accused Brosnan of standing on Brooks' shoulder after the shooting; he faced charges of assault. Prosecutors said that neither officers provided medical assistance for over 2 minutes. Minutes later an ambulance arrived and Brooks was taken to hospital. Sadly, he later died, after surgery, due to organ injuries and blood loss. Brooks had celebrated his daughter's birthday that night. He had planned to take his 8 year old ice skating for her birthday, his lawyer said. Chris Stewart, Brooks' family lawyer, said "She had her birthday dress on. She was waiting for her ad to come pick her up and take her skating." When Brooks didn't arrive his children were oblivious to what had happened the previous night.

[thesaltyseaturtle]

Come; pull up a seat and listen to my talk. If at any point you do not like what I have to say, then by all means, keep scrolling or leave a hate comment (quite frankly, I do not care).

I think everyone (of sound mind and judgement) knows the killing of George Floyd was an abuse of power and excessive force. This is not a post that is trying to diminish the severity of this event or stating that in some way Derek Chauvin is innocent. However, this is a post that, I hope, sheds light on what I believe that a lot of Americans are forgetting or may just be unaware of.

There are so many different things that I feel like need to be addressed, it’s hard to decide where to start. I’ll just start.

First, it is important to know what the laws are. Read the elements of the crime and understand that each element must be met to gain a conviction. Shouting out and rioting to charge someone with a crime to just to get a charge, I must ask “do you want to see a perpetrator charged with a crime or convicted of a crime?” My guess, you would rather see a conviction. Each state has different crimes. The crimes that a subject can be charged with for killing someone in Georgia are different than those charges in Minnesota. I understand that Derek Chauvin unjustly and wrongly killed George Floyd, but do not be mad with the Third-Degree murder charge if that is the appropriate charge to get a conviction with. First Degree Murder (or whatever the equivalent charge is in that state) sounds great, but in almost every state, that charge requires the State to prove prior intent. That means that prosecutors would have to go into court and present credible evidence to prove that Chauvin went to that location that day with the preconceived intent to kill Floyd. This would be almost impossible to prove and could result in Chauvin going free.

Speaking of the laws being different, law enforcement also varies state to state, even county to county in some situations. There is not one central body for all law enforcement agencies to respond to. That means the officer’s here in Texas, or Georgia do not have anything to do with the officers in Minnesota. Furthermore, I have not seen one officer speak on the behalf of Derek Chauvin, every officer I have spoken with has condemned the actions of Chauvin, and many police chiefs are telling their officers to resign if they agree with the actions displayed. Rioting (because that is what all the peaceful protests have turned into) in Atlanta, and all the other locations, will not help the situation in Minnesota.

I understand the want for “better officers'' across the country. Anyone can recognize there are bad officers, just as there are bad priests, bad teachers, and bad doctors. I understand that we (as a country) can hire better. Here is the thing though, departments need to establish tougher hiring requirements and stick to them (this means no more hiring under qualified personnel just to meet some quota). Then establish tougher more realistic training standards (this includes legal and procedural training as well as firearms and combatives). There are still police academies that are as short as 6 weeks and include NO combative training. Then after the academy mandate regular recurrent in-service training. Finally, we need to provide officer’s with better pay. We cannot expect to pay someone nearly minimum wage and expect them to perform a job that the average citizen could not do or would not want to do. In Minnesota specifically the average state income is $62,876, the average police officer in Minnesota makes $57,706. There are many departments in the country that pay less than entry-level retail employees make. We call on these men and women to protect and serve daily, yet we don’t pay them for the vast amount of knowledge and skill we expect them to have or for how much they have to go through. One of the biggest contributing factors of short retention in departments is lack of pay and who would blame them? There is an old saying, “You get what you pay for.” And this is certainly no exception.

Now all that being said, know that all of that comes with a price tag and ultimately the person paying for that is you, the taxpayer. So, it’s fine to rant about what you want, but are you willing to write the check to pay for it.

I promise you, no one hates a bad cop more than the good cops, because law enforcement officer’s all across the country are having to deal with the backlash of the actions taken by one officer. Remember, as of 2018 (2 years ago) there were almost 700,000 police officers in the U.S.. This was one person out of 700,000. Be careful painting all police with the same brush.

I understand the hurt, the frustration, but I do not understand the rioting. The money that could have been used to help reform police departments will now be spent on city repairs and replacing patrol cars. What good has this done? How many of those rioting have taken the time to sit down with those who can actually make a change? The beat cops that are taking a lashing right now, cannot make the change that is being requested. Make time to be heard. Demand to be heard in a useful way. Change is possible, and it is inevitable when there is a large push for it, but when you cause destruction in the midst of the fight it delays the process.

[copenhagenpimp]

CONCERNING THE ATLANTA PD SHOOTING AT WENDY'S.

"APD SHOOTING EXPLAINED

Before reading below, remember that officers are afforded the same constitutional rights as citizens, so whether they’re charged for political reasons or not, the facts of the case remain the same until their day in court:

In order to understand this situation, you’ve got to set feelings and emotions aside to understand objective reasonableness.

So looking at this case, what do we know?

A DUI investigation determined that he was too intoxicated to drive. The bodycam showed the officers being overly nice and polite to him the entire time all the way up until the handcuffs were about to go on, as they should’ve been.

As soon as they tried to cuff him, an all out brawl took place. Not just resisting, but punching them in the face and throwing them around.

He took one officer’s taser, threw him face first into the asphalt, stood up, and took off.

_____________

So let’s pause there and see where we’re at legally.

Charges:

DUI

Obstruction X2 - Felony

Battery on an officer X2

Aggravated assault X2 - Felony

Strong Armed Robbery - Felony

And believe it or not....

Possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime - Felony

Per Georgia Law, a taser is classified as a “less-lethal” FIREARM as they do occasionally cause death.

(OCGA 16-11-106)

________________

These offenses are important because there is a case law called Tennessee v Garner

What Tennessee v Garner states is:

“When a non-violent felon is ordered to stop and submit to police, ignoring that order does not give rise to a reasonable good-faith belief that the use of deadly force is necessary, UNLESS it has been threatened.”

So this goes back to the taser being classified as a firearm that can cause death or great bodily harm.

___________

So,

They fought

He stole the taser

He got up and ran

The 2nd officer chased after him and tried to use his own taser against him, but he didn’t get a good connection.

Brooks then turns, aims the taser at the officer, and fires. Statutorily, this is no different than firing a gun.

(The taser that APD carries has 2 cartridges, so Brooks could have potentially shot the officer twice.)

The officer dropped his taser from his left hand after it appears he was hit by a barb on the video, draws his sidearm, fires 3 shots, falls against a car in the parking lot and Brooks goes down.

Brooks was not only a continuing threat to the officer since he could still fire the taser again, but he also showed and EXTREME desire to get away, with a weapon. So it is not unreasonable to have the fear that he would use that weapon to carjack a motorist sitting in the drive-thru line, take a hostage, or otherwise hurt another innocent party.

What does Georgia Law say about deadly force?

OCGA 17-4-20 (b):

Sheriffs and peace officers may use deadly force:

1.) to apprehend a suspected felon only when the officer reasonably believes that the suspect possesses a deadly weapon. (He did)

2.) to apprehend a suspected felon who possesses any object, device, or instrument which, when used offensively against a person, is likely to or actually does result in serious bodily injury. (He did)

3.) to apprehend a suspected felon when the officer reasonably believes that the suspect poses an immediate threat of physical violence to the officer or others (He did)

4.) to apprehend a suspected felon when there is probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm (He did)

The officer only needed one of those requirements, but he had all 4........

Now the reason taser’s are considered “less-lethal” is because when used appropriately, you are “less likely” to kill someone vs using a gun. But Brooks hasn’t been through the training to know how to avoid certain vulnerable parts of the body, and he doesn’t understand how neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI) works, which makes it MORE likely for him to cause great bodily injury or death than if an officer used it.

And just to support the fact that tasers can and do kill, there is an East Point Officer currently sitting in prison for improperly using a taser and killing a man a few years ago.

(Eberhart v Georgia)

“He could’ve shot him in the leg!”

Right off the top, it is unconstitutional to do so. It is considered cruel and unusual punishment to employ a gun in that manner. Either an officer felt deadly force was necessary, or he should use a lesser response.

We could just leave it at that, but that's too much of a cop out, so let's discuss WHY it has been deemed unconstitutional. For one thing, that's an extremely difficult shot to make. The target is quite narrow, and in continuous motion as the suspect runs away/charges the officer. Under the best of conditions trying to hit the leg is challenging...to be generous about it. But in a life or death encounter, the officer's fine motor skills will be eroded by the stress of the encounter making the shot, turning a leg shot into a very low probability feat.

Assuming a round does hit the leg, then what? The only way a shot to the leg would immediately stop a threat is by shattering one of the bones, and stopping the threat is the ultimate goal. While it is very difficult to find a shot to the leg that will immediately stop a threat, it is actually comparatively easy to find shots to the leg which eventually prove fatal. Human legs have very large blood vessels which are essentially unprotected (femoral artery)

Now remember, we’ve had days to sit back, watch videos, discuss, and analyze this entire thing. The officers had less than a minute from the time the fight started, and less than 5 seconds to interpret EVERYTHING you just read while running, getting shot at with a taser, and returning fire.

-Greg James

Founder/Executive Director

Georgia Law Enforcement Organization"

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