Why the Police Need to be more like James Shaw Jr. [View all]

I'm posting this in the AfAm Group because well - I think folks back here will get this.

Last Month - James Shaw Jr. with his bare hands stopped a half naked guy with an AR-15 at a Waffle House Restaurant down south.

He wasn't and isn't a police officer.
He's a phone tech.
In an EXTREMELY dangerous situation (four people killed by the killer) he went at the guy and saved his life and others.
The guy ran off, manhunt ensued, etc. etc.


On May 15th a Richmond VA police officer shot and killed a naked black man because his - I dunno - taser wasn't effective. The naked black man had no gun or weapon just - his naked. He (the po po ) used his taser first, and still feared for his life. I read on another thread more hands and feet killed people last year than . . .

I wish that Law Enforcement across America would try to study James Shaw Jr and figure out how they can get more people like him on their police force.

With more and more of these police shootings I'm beginning to think that the profile for a police officer is a big or little dopey wimp who is afraid of their own shadow.

If from these two incidents we can't see how clearly ill suited many of these police officers are ill suited for their career - I don't know.

I think maybe that's the key to all of the police shootings? Just too many wimps and scaredy cats on the police force combined with possible pre-conceived notions about black people? Like really - Sandra Bland was dangerous? Like - really?