Daily Topics - Monday November 23rd, 2015
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Interesting police incident.
Mention of the Tamir Rice shooting reminded me of an incident that happened in San Diego a bit over a year ago. The article at http://sdcitybeat.com/article-13447-city-heights-incident-raises-questions-about-police-response.html includes a link to a video. SDPD respond to an incident and hold a man at gunpoint for about 10 minutes; and they were at the wrong apartment. It was a quasi-comedy of errors in that the person who reported the incident was relaying secondhand --- which should have been an indicator that the incident was no longer in progress; yet police responded as if it was. Any-brown-person-will-do, might have been a factor in how things unfolded. The video could be a case study; it shows events from near beginning to end. Luckily nobody got hurt --- which could have easily happened if a car had backfired or something, and PD had itchy trigger fingers.
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