VIRTUALLY every week another outrageous murder is committed by American policemen who kill at the slightest provocation, as in the case of Jonathan Ferrell. This week, 19-year-old Tyler Comstock was shot dead when he fled in a pickup truck to the campus of Iowa State University after a family dispute.

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Terry Morris writes:

I note that several commenters at the Daily Mail are very supportive of the police and their actions in this case based on the contents of the story. That is a common mistake made by people way too prone to give police the benefit of the doubt. The boy is alleged to have rammed one of the police vehicles during the “chase,” among other things. That is what the police are saying; the boy isn’t alive to tell his version of what happened. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. I’d put my money on “he didn’t,” that it was probably the other way around.

If we’ve learned anything over the last several years about American law enforcement officers, we should have learned by now that not only are police forces increasingly becoming infested with trigger-happy killers who, as one ex-police officer told me privately “live for the chase,” but that they’re also quickly becoming a fraternity of liars. I do “get it,” however, I think; until you yourself have stared down the muzzle-end of several police pistols aimed at your chest, cocked and ready to fire, while the extremely hyped-up officers are all screaming at you from every direction ordering you to kill the vehicle, throw the keys out, get out of the vehicle and lay face-down on the ground, you can’t possibly imagine how confusing these situations can become for the innocent civilian who has no idea what is happening or why. Particularly when police, all jacked-up on adrenaline, mistake a dispatcher’s communications to say something she did not say at all.

I can assure everyone of this, had the boy’s father the benefit of my experience (once was enough to convince me), he would never have called police reporting his vehicle stolen by his unfortunate son; he would know, as I know by first-hand experience, that many police officers in this country are totally out of control and like ticking time bombs waiting to explode. And kill.

So my informed advice to readers is this: next time you get the urge to involve police in a relatively minor issue that is not an absolute life-or-death emergency, don’t. Otherwise you may be unwittingly sentencing someone to death.

Alex writes:

This new normal is why grass-roots conservatives are cooling on their support of the police, Dennis Mangan observes.

When grass-roots conservatives start cooling on their support of the military, which is now nothing more than the enforcer of the revolution on the global scale just like the police is domestically, it will mean they are finally starting to get a clue.

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