Minneapolis Area of Minnesota: Needs Calming, Repose After Exact Justice
Posted by HCN on Tuesday, April 13, 2021
There are a number of things the Minneapolis area 'needs' to do, activities or non-activities to address the current pandemonium. It seems the region would benefit from carefully guided courses of action if they happened all at once or timed well.
There is a danger with limelighting that unrest is occurring in a specific area, because in this day and age, it has been proven that individuals with no other intention but to conflagrate and exacerbate unrest, might flock to the region to do just that.
The Minneapolis area now has to confront two situations involving force by the police on a suspect.
In the recent situation, a 20 year old was shot while attempting to blatantly flee the scene after police apprehension. Fleeing police, especially knowingly and willfully is a crime in itself.
Some leniency can be given in situations where a suspect may be psychologically impaired or under a condition of extreme shock, such as already suffering from a bullet wound or trying to rescue a relative, however, the suspect is still expected to recover bearings and cooperate.
The recent incident last night, corresponding with the 20 year old male, occurred about 10 miles north of Minneapolis. Apprehension Sunday, protests Monday.
Evidently an officer with more experience than the age of the suspect, fired a firearm at the suspect. The element that a taser/tazer was available is being weighed.
Officers when they have access to both a taser and a firearm, also have to contend with the natural fight-or-flight response when in a situation where they have seconds to respond and are under stress. Over the years, different training has been introduced to respond to different situations. Decades ago, officers may have been trained to discharge a firearm, if for example a suspect fought with police and tries to flee. In the past couple of years, updated training may have recommended officers to use a taser first, in lieu of a firearm. However, if an officer has been trained to use a firearm and was the system for 10 or 15 years, then receives taser training, tasers a more recent advent, and has been lax with the tool for only 1 or 2 years, in a real emergency, one part of an officer's mind, and reaction that has built for the 10 or 15 years might take over in fight-or-flight reaction, while another part of the mind might say, use taser. What could happen sometimes, is a firearm might be discharged instead of a taser or vice versa. The apparatuses look alike, and are sometimes hard to tell the difference at night.
Although the suspect in last night's incident may have had other background giving rise for increased inquiry by law enforcement, many in the population in the region are discontented with what happened. The suspect, like George Floyd of about a month shy of a year ago, is no longer able to stand trial.
In the overflow of the Floyd case, in the same region, this incident happens.
Police and National Guard are now put in a position where they have to carry out their lawful orders to defend certain locations and disperse crowds. This despite their views on the issue.
Civilians are carrying out their views, by defying orders of law enforcement, and see police and National Guardsmen as the torch-bearers of the injustice. This is not necessarily so, and civilians need to understand that not every policeman, policewoman, and soldier, are out to see injustice and oppression for African Americans that had some criminal histories in their background.
Meanwhile, police standing trial are under a lot of pressure, to the degree the might actually be bending the rules of what is the exact status of a principle, so as not to arouse more lashing out by the people in the region.
(The scientific and medical findings of what the impact was of narcotics in the suspects body, is one matter. How much force and to what length of time an officer used on a suspect is one matter. In an event of a fatality, medical findings could determine what were the contributing factors and their exact ratios.)
The unfortunate truth, is some of what has gone on in Minneapolis, reference Floyd, and the situation that emerged last night, has occurred in other locations and times, but may not have received nearly as much media coverage.
So the Floyd hearing is considered 'historic', perhaps in part that it is addressing a situation that has occurred before, but the tolerance level for incidents like that has reached the point that people want them completely abated, as the turn in new eras of equality start to materialize. The problem is, is the totality of what occurred in actuality, a match with what occurred on the prima facie? The people want to see a judgement that reflects what the people saw, and what they might have seen at least at first, was mainly on the prima facie.
A calming down, and being collected, on both sides, is almost a must that needs to happen here. Otherwise the confusion, pandemonium, and general atmosphere of being upset will continue. Exact justice is something to consider for each and every component that has happened.
There is a danger with limelighting that unrest is occurring in a specific area, because in this day and age, it has been proven that individuals with no other intention but to conflagrate and exacerbate unrest, might flock to the region to do just that.
The Minneapolis area now has to confront two situations involving force by the police on a suspect.
In the recent situation, a 20 year old was shot while attempting to blatantly flee the scene after police apprehension. Fleeing police, especially knowingly and willfully is a crime in itself.
Some leniency can be given in situations where a suspect may be psychologically impaired or under a condition of extreme shock, such as already suffering from a bullet wound or trying to rescue a relative, however, the suspect is still expected to recover bearings and cooperate.
The recent incident last night, corresponding with the 20 year old male, occurred about 10 miles north of Minneapolis. Apprehension Sunday, protests Monday.
Evidently an officer with more experience than the age of the suspect, fired a firearm at the suspect. The element that a taser/tazer was available is being weighed.
Officers when they have access to both a taser and a firearm, also have to contend with the natural fight-or-flight response when in a situation where they have seconds to respond and are under stress. Over the years, different training has been introduced to respond to different situations. Decades ago, officers may have been trained to discharge a firearm, if for example a suspect fought with police and tries to flee. In the past couple of years, updated training may have recommended officers to use a taser first, in lieu of a firearm. However, if an officer has been trained to use a firearm and was the system for 10 or 15 years, then receives taser training, tasers a more recent advent, and has been lax with the tool for only 1 or 2 years, in a real emergency, one part of an officer's mind, and reaction that has built for the 10 or 15 years might take over in fight-or-flight reaction, while another part of the mind might say, use taser. What could happen sometimes, is a firearm might be discharged instead of a taser or vice versa. The apparatuses look alike, and are sometimes hard to tell the difference at night.
Although the suspect in last night's incident may have had other background giving rise for increased inquiry by law enforcement, many in the population in the region are discontented with what happened. The suspect, like George Floyd of about a month shy of a year ago, is no longer able to stand trial.
In the overflow of the Floyd case, in the same region, this incident happens.
Police and National Guard are now put in a position where they have to carry out their lawful orders to defend certain locations and disperse crowds. This despite their views on the issue.
Civilians are carrying out their views, by defying orders of law enforcement, and see police and National Guardsmen as the torch-bearers of the injustice. This is not necessarily so, and civilians need to understand that not every policeman, policewoman, and soldier, are out to see injustice and oppression for African Americans that had some criminal histories in their background.
Meanwhile, police standing trial are under a lot of pressure, to the degree the might actually be bending the rules of what is the exact status of a principle, so as not to arouse more lashing out by the people in the region.
(The scientific and medical findings of what the impact was of narcotics in the suspects body, is one matter. How much force and to what length of time an officer used on a suspect is one matter. In an event of a fatality, medical findings could determine what were the contributing factors and their exact ratios.)
The unfortunate truth, is some of what has gone on in Minneapolis, reference Floyd, and the situation that emerged last night, has occurred in other locations and times, but may not have received nearly as much media coverage.
So the Floyd hearing is considered 'historic', perhaps in part that it is addressing a situation that has occurred before, but the tolerance level for incidents like that has reached the point that people want them completely abated, as the turn in new eras of equality start to materialize. The problem is, is the totality of what occurred in actuality, a match with what occurred on the prima facie? The people want to see a judgement that reflects what the people saw, and what they might have seen at least at first, was mainly on the prima facie.
A calming down, and being collected, on both sides, is almost a must that needs to happen here. Otherwise the confusion, pandemonium, and general atmosphere of being upset will continue. Exact justice is something to consider for each and every component that has happened.
