Mr. Noir penned a stupid missive wondering if Philando Castille wouldn't have gotten shot if he was white.

Because, you know, white people never get accidentally shot by the police or incorrectly perceived as a threat by the police.

I have no sound on my computer at the moment, so I cannot confirm it, but I think this is the video:

The only thing I have heard along those lines is some admins don't want cops getting any training outside the department or some official POST certified training.

The thought process was they don't want you using some technique you learned in some class that has not been vetted by official LE channels because then if you use it and get sued it's difficult to prove it is LE certified.

It boils down to this:

Police are, for the most part, poorly trained.

They are held to dogshit standards (sometimes enforced by court orders because actual standards are "discriminatory") that would be considered deplorable for just about any other profession. In most states it takes more training time to become a fucking barber than it does to be someone who is issued a lethal weapon and arrest powers.

Baltimore just had 1/3 of its latest recruit class fail the final exams to become a police officer...but fuck it, we'll put them on the street anyway:

https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/1-3-baltimore-recruits-fail-final-academy-tests-so-they-get-rid-of-it-J81uinRV6kO2zEkquwm9aw

It is virtually guaranteed that the vast majority of those who failed those exams are women and/or racial minorities.

But fuck it, put them on the street anyway.

So here you have these poorly trained, poorly prepared individuals shoved into literally lethal situations. Situations full of ambiguity and bad information where they don't know who the good guys and bad guys are. Their training has been mostly dogshit. They know this. Because the second you are confronted with actual danger you can't fucking Stuart Smalley your way into handling it. You cannot bullshit yourself, not when shit gets real.

So these poorly trained people who do not have the skills to prevail in a real fight find themselves facing a real fight or the possibility of a real fight and they are not confident their dogshit skills will see them through.

This sets off a chain reaction of fucktardery.

See, a prepared, well-trained individual stays in the rational part of his/her mind. When shit is going sideways and they have a plan for this, they stay on that plan and they stay in the part of their brain that is capable of rationally thinking through a problem. This is why we spend shitloads of money weeding out the unsuitable and repeatedly exposing pilots to every possible fucked up scenario imaginable...so that when shit happens they stick to the part of their brain that is capable of recognizing, understanding, and appropriately reacting to new information.

We train combat medics by strapping down a pig, cutting its femoral artery and then making them actually stop the bleed. Why? Because the first time they experience arterial blood spray and a squirming squealing patient shouldn't be when a person's actual life is on the line.

For the most part, WE DO NOT DO THIS WITH POLICE OFFICERS.

We do not require them to demonstrate a high level of skill with a firearm before putting them on the street. We do not require them to demonstrate a high level of skill in combatives before putting them on the street. What scenario based training they do receive is often either far too soft with "red man" suits they hit weakly and get instant compliance from, or it's no-win scenarios that they end up shot with sims no matter what they do.

So these poorly trained, poorly prepared people are staring down the barrel of a situation that they do not believe they can handle...and that shifts them out of that rational part of the brain into the lizard brain. That angry walnut-sized area of your brain at the base of it that is responsible for one thing: KEEP. YOU. ALIVE.

If there is a gun in your hand when that part of your brain is all that is running, you will pull the trigger. A lot. And on the slightest provocation.

Most citizens are there when they use a gun in self defense...but this doesn't pose too much of a problem because they are in that state because they are the victim of a criminal assault. There's no question about it. Dude stuck a gun in their face. It makes for a simple decision tree.

Police officers are often in a very different circumstance. They have to go deal with potentially violent criminals without being the direct victim of hostility. And they have to routinely sort out the violent criminal actors from honest citizens who mean them no harm. When a situation starts to overwhelm them (which can be instantaneous) their panic program starts up and that thing on their hip isn't plan A or plan B or plan C, it's THE. PLAN. PERIOD.

...and so they shoot people. Sometimes people who need to be shot. Sometimes people who didn't need to be shot.

And that's just the deliberate shootings. That doesn't even count the accidental shootings that result from dogshit gun handling that isn't corrected. I know of examples of police officers who fired a weapon accidentally, narrowly missing causing a fatal wound to another police officer, who received no discipline whatsoever for gross negligence in handling a lethal weapon because the admin types were worried about a discrimination lawsuit.

You cannot have that kind of bullshit taking priority and still have competent professionals handling guns and potentially dangerous situations.

The only reason it isn't 100 times worse is because most bad guys are fucking pussies. If even another 25% of criminals hardens the fuck up tomorrow society will be a fucking bloodbath.

It goes beyond that.

There are departments out there deliberately hiring "non-threatening" looking officers and avoiding teaching more effective combatives because they don't want to "send the wrong message"

Police administrators, a significant number of them anyway, do not want to have actual fighters in their ranks. Because it is expensive and time consuming to make them, and because eventually those trained fighters are going to hurt somebody!

The fact that hiring weak, timid, and utterly ineffectual dumbfucks and handing them the awesome responsibility of being a police officer turns into more shootings and injuries is fucking invisible to them. They wouldn't have been promoted to that position if they weren't company men and dogshit leaders.

https://www.facebook.com/COLIONNOIR/posts/1386059818110438

From the article in the OP

I can see where the officer(s) on scene might have thought that Becker was was complicit in the armed robbery. Both were armed when they got there. I wonder what info was relayed to the police once they were on scene and giving him commands. Once the actual armed robber started shooting at the police, as reported in the article, it seems everything turned to crap.

I hope Becker heals but I think it was a poor idea for him to run over and confront an armed robber at a place he wasn't originally in. I understand why he did it though.