Cops are all too ready to point their guns at people, as the incident in the story below illustrates.
I have also had a bit of personal experience with this. I once had to saw the lock off my bike after my key stopped working and I couldn't get it open, and someone saw me and assuming I was a bike thief, called the cops. Under the circumstances I do not blame the officer for thinking that I was stealing the bicycle, but I was sitting on the ground and unarmed except for a small, flimsy hacksaw that in no way posed a threat. There was no reason for him to upon arrival immediately draw and train his gun on me prior to any communication and without any evidence that I was dangerous or uncooperative.
Pointing a loaded gun at someone is putting them at lethal risk. What if one of those weapons pointed at Denise Green had accidentally gone off and wounded or killed her? Would officers have lied and said she appeared to be "reaching for a weapon" or something of that sort? That type of unsubstantiated story seems to appear more often than not in cases of police shootings of people who turn out to be unarmed and in all likelihood victims of itchy trigger fingers.
Love & Liberty,
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