{"id":1776,"date":"2020-09-15T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2020-09-15T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:44:28","slug":"game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Game-changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walk a mile in my shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A video from 2015 has gone viral, showing a black anti-police activist accepting an invitation from Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Arizona to participate in police use of force simulation training sessions to better understand the stresses and split-second decisions police officers are faced with on a daily basis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was Sheriff Joe Arpaio still in charge in Maricopa back then? Ah well, no matter. Onwards.<\/p>\n

Reverend Jarrett Maupin, who organized #BlackLivesMatter protests following the officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, participated in three scenarios, each one followed by a discussion of when he sensed a threat and why he chose to draw his weapon.<\/p>\n

In the first scenario, Maupin approached a suspect in a parking lot and was \u2018shot\u2019 almost instantly. In the second, the reverend approached two men fighting, and fired his weapon when one of the men charged him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shot because he was in that zone,\u201d Maupin explained to a police trainer. \u201cI felt that was an imminent threat \u2013 I didn\u2019t necessarily see him armed but he came clearly to do some harm to the officer \u2013 to my person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man who Maupin shot at was unarmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the third scenario, Maupin received a call about a possible burglary and was able to get the suspect to the ground, without any shots fired.<\/p>\n

Maupin stated that the training scenarios changed his way of thinking, saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t understand how important compliance was\u2026 people need to comply with the orders of law enforcement officers, for their own safety.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somehow I missed this back in June when Hoft first posted it, but I’m glad to have finally run across it….via The People’s Cube<\/a>, of all places.<\/p>\n

Trump should be pushing hard for the implementation of this program in his second term, and provide any amount of federal money to support it too. In fact, it ought to be a mandatory course of instruction for every ghetto hood-rat arrested for crimes against either property or person, before bail is even set, all across America. If he did so, this country could possibly end up looking like a completely different place after only a few short years.<\/p>\n

Of course you’re not going to change every mind with this program, nor will every Negro heart be liberated from the inchoate hatred and mistrust of da po-po instilled so meticulously by Proggy and his Pet Media. In fact, it may well be that it wouldn’t make much real difference at all in the end. But if it didn’t, well, so what? We can always give “midnight basketball<\/a>” another try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walk a mile in my shoes. A video from 2015 has gone viral, showing a black anti-police activist accepting an invitation from Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Arizona to participate in police use of force simulation training sessions to better understand the stresses and split-second…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Game-changer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,20,48,61,64,89,90,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-begins-at-home","category-believe-it-or-else","category-brilliant","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-hmmm","category-in-it-to-win-it","category-read-and-heed","category-real-men-of-genius","category-or-losing","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-64-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-90-id","wpcat-125-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}