New Posts For Thread: Homeless man shot dead in LA.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-lahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31688942My brother is a senior policeman, on Friday he is getting an award for services rendered after 20 years of working the tough streets of London and all that entails. Not once in all that time has he shot or tasered anyone. That video was simply horrifhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543784801#543784801My brother is a senior policeman, on Friday he is getting an award for services rendered after 20 years of working the tough streets of London and all that entails. Not once in all that time has he shot or tasered anyone. That video was simply horrifTue, 03 Mar 2015 13:07:38 -0600I would agree with that fozwaldLAPD seem to have a policy of bring them inDead or Alivethis is hardly a good advert for themhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543780227#543780227I would agree with that fozwaldLAPD seem to have a policy of bring them inDead or Alivethis is hardly a good advert for themTue, 03 Mar 2015 05:33:41 -0600very true clungehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543777691#543777691very true clungeMon, 02 Mar 2015 18:41:42 -0600Sad story, again. Life becomes cheap when you let everyone have a gun, including the police. Priority should have been to look after him.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543777683#543777683Sad story, again. Life becomes cheap when you let everyone have a gun, including the police. Priority should have been to look after him.Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:41:19 -0600The police are in front line in the ever ending problems between black and white in AmericaBut things like this do not helpI have no answer to Americas cultural problems, cultures are notoriously difficult to changeAs indeed is America's own gun culthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543777677#543777677The police are in front line in the ever ending problems between black and white in AmericaBut things like this do not helpI have no answer to Americas cultural problems, cultures are notoriously difficult to changeAs indeed is America's own gun cultMon, 02 Mar 2015 18:41:06 -0600The man had been living 10 years in a mental institutionProbably a strong man, a difficult manHis mental state was poor, doubt he wanted to kill the policeI regard this as a failure myself, surely they should have been able to subdue and arrest him,https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543777635#543777635The man had been living 10 years in a mental institutionProbably a strong man, a difficult manHis mental state was poor, doubt he wanted to kill the policeI regard this as a failure myself, surely they should have been able to subdue and arrest him,Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:36:05 -0600yellowhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543776995#543776995yellowMon, 02 Mar 2015 17:34:23 -0600Surprised no one has mentioned the colour of the yank policeman.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543776005#543776005Surprised no one has mentioned the colour of the yank policeman.Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:12:09 -0600As a rule I like americans. Met many over the years. Sound people in the main.However, the police are something else. The seem to take pleasure from inflicting pain (or worse) on the vulnerable -and are always exonerated.The black guy taken down a whhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543775941#543775941As a rule I like americans. Met many over the years. Sound people in the main.However, the police are something else. The seem to take pleasure from inflicting pain (or worse) on the vulnerable -and are always exonerated.The black guy taken down a whMon, 02 Mar 2015 16:06:58 -0600He supposedly "reached" for one of the officers guns. I have seen nothing from anywhere that says he had hold of one of them. Of course when there is two of them on yer legs and 2 on yer chest, it could be conceivable that the deceased was just tryinhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30449663/homeless-man-shot-dead-in-la?post_id=543775751#543775751He supposedly "reached" for one of the officers guns. I have seen nothing from anywhere that says he had hold of one of them. Of course when there is two of them on yer legs and 2 on yer chest, it could be conceivable that the deceased was just tryinMon, 02 Mar 2015 15:51:43 -0600