Peace is The Goal
The following video is a dramatization of an event that actually occurred, and it illustrates the reason why police officers take immediate and aggressive action toward suspects that don’t comply with lawful orders—by showing what can happen when things are allowed to escalate.
A police officer nowadays most likely won’t, nor should they, let a suspect do anything that could result in the suspect's getting the upper hand. The penalty can be severe.
On Monday, January 12, 1998, near the end of his shift, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff's Office (LCSO), state of Georgia, pulled over motorist Andrew Howard Brannan, for speeding. A verbal confrontation escalated to a shootout resulting in Brannan murdering the Deputy. Dinkheller's murder continues to get national attention (e.g., training in police academies) because the stop and shootout were captured on a personal video recorder Deputy Dinkheller had placed on his patrol car dashboard.
It’s not a game, and there are no Marquess of Queensberry rules. The law gives a police officer the benefit of the doubt, and allows the use of deadly force—even in cases when the suspect was unarmed—when reasonable.
The attempt, by some politicians, to use incidents like this to benefit from racial unrest is the personification of deplorable.
Epilog: Andrew Howard Brannan was executed by lethal injection at 8:33 p.m. (EST) on January 13, 2015. He was 66 years old at the time of his death at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison near Jackson, Georgia. He made a final statement, in which he said "I extend my condolences to the Dinkheller family, especially Kyle's parents and his wife and his two children" and "I feel like my status was slow torture for the last 15 years. I had to say that with them here. I have to tell the truth. I'm certainly glad to be leaving." A pastor then delivered a prayer, and Brannan was executed. Reference.
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