MY FRIEND RACIALLY PROFILED AND SHOT BY COPS

[LORD LUCAN]

I see it this way. Maomans friend must have had a bump on his head and thought he was Big John McCarthy when he took on those cops. After all his name is pretty close

JOHN MC CARTY and only 0.56毫克

[MAOMAN]

This guy displayed the worst kind of criminal behaviour and showed total disregard for the safety of others. He deserves condemnation, not praise.

It was only a 10km Police chase. It's not like he was OJ Simpson or they had police helicopters with search lights following him along.

[tainancowboy]

Shot in the leg? If it didn't hit a major (femoral) artery he'll live. Maybe have a limp for a while.
Scars to a) brag about to the ladies B) illustrate his stupidity while drunk c)cage drinks from his mates while they pound him in his haid for being a right dumbass.

If he's your friend and he did his damage only to himself and/or property - You stick by your friend. Yeah, ya tell him he's a dumbass and all that; but it's not like you never did something really stupid...and didn't get caught. That is what friends do when stupid shit like this happens.
Chances are, he knows he fucked up royal - and it will cost him in many ways for a long time.

If he's not your friend - Nothing you can say or ejaculate on the interwebs about it really means all that much to anyone. So...Have at it. Join the 'holier than thou crowd' and pound your keyboard in "sincere outrage."

This could have happened just about anywhere in the world. The results may have been different - but that's all speculation. Take that speculation and NT$25.00 to 7-Eleven and they'll give you a cup of coffee for it.
Same value here.

Glad no one else was hurt. The local cop was just doping his job. (Showed restraint by firing only one (1) round - maybe that's all they let him carry in his magazine?).

Life goes on - The fun never stops.

Added: So...who is going to cover his engrish classes?

[LORD LUCAN]

Just reading the comments here...

That's the thing about the internet... no shortage of sanctimonious comments from people who don't give a shit. I'm sure I've done this in the past myself. It's fascinating, and slightly depressing, to behold when the subject of the commentary is someone who's been a good friend for over 20 years.

Maybe we should have a "get it out of your system" thread for all the "he's a wanker" and the "oh yeah I heard about this guy yeah he had it coming" comments?

Surprised to hear people think it is normal police procedure to shoot someone who evades a DUI stop. I regard cops like this as the scum of the earth. What a big hero. Is there a special medal for this in Taiwan? "Shooting Unarmed Foreigner Cross"? Sad to hear that some of the commentators come from countries where getting shot by the police for failure to stop is normal. Tough break. I didn't think Taiwan was one of those places, but I now stand corrected.

Who gave the police here guns anyway? The stories of police abuse of firearms here are legendary, but my all-time favourite has to be the warning shot that killed the kid on the balcony. Corrupt and useless cops are scary enough, but trigger-happy corrupt and useless cops who can't shoot straight is terrifying.

Anyway, let the court of public opinion open session.

I see Bo Xi Lai's trial is up for Thursday. Who will get the fairer hearing? Let the nonsense roll.

[REPLICANT]

I doubt the cop was trigger happy. I have never seen the police here pull out a gun and to have done so would only be as a last resort.

After all the guy fled on a chase going for 10km then fought with the police when caught. Lucky he wasn't shot in the chest.

[HEADHONCHO11]

The cops here are low lives, and poorly trained, I don't see why shots were fired in this instance as there was no danger to his life as far as I could tell. The interview with the dirty racist cops really pissed me off.

But I've ways been aware that if you run a road block here there is a small and real chance of getting shot at. I recall an incident where one lady went through one without noticing and her car had been shot up, she only noticed the bullet holes later.

[LORD LUCAN]

Apart from the fact that I know the guy, it's quite shaken me up. But it is clear now that a failure to stop for police may lead to being shot, especially if you're a foreigner. Failures to stop happen all the time in Taiwan. Very few people end up shot as a result. And of course the cop's a hero. It's like 19th Century Africa, and he shot a lion. Well done!

The cop of course, "defending his life", hasn't a mark on him. No question of going round the address of the bike in an hour or two. Nope. I've got myself a foreigner here and after I've bent my nightstick on him I'm going to shoot him. I mean, he ripped the pocket off my shirt, goddammit! (Although how he managed that when I was wearing a flak jacket remains unclear)

And he "rammed me", er, from in front. After I bravely crashed into him from behind, I bravely battered the shite out of him with my nightstick whilst he held his arms above his head until the steel nightstick was all bent and useless (causing massive injury to his forearms rather than the head I was aiming for), and then I bravely shot him. I did this because he was bigger than me. As I find most people are in fact bigger than me, I intend to go on battering and shooting traffic offenders as the first course of action until I get promoted to Sergeant by the Apple Daily. Luckily I escaped completely unscathed and without injury during the prisoner's "vicious attack" which justifies all the more my policy of "shoot first and ask questions later".

[MAOMAN]

Jaboney wrote:
So, according to the always accurate initial media report, buddy was stopped at a drinking and driving check point, took off, was chased, stopped, took off again, managed to cause a couple of cops to wipe out, there was a scuffle, somehow a police baton ended up nicely bent, and buddy was shot in the leg. That about right?

Not quite. Stopped at a checkpoint, drove straight through, headed up into the hills, crashed his scooter (or the cops crashed into him, I'm not sure), there was a scuffle, the police baton was bent when he was struck on the arms, and then he was shot in the right thigh and the left calf. One bullet, two legs.

TainanCowboy wrote:
Shot in the leg? If it didn't hit a major (femoral) artery he'll live. Maybe have a limp for a while.

He was lucky in the sense that the bullet missed bone and major arteries in both legs, and made a clean exit. He can't walk right now, but the doctors are optimistic about an eventual full recovery.

[LORD LUCAN]

I can't agree. Discharging firearms against unarmed civilians over traffic offences is not a cop doing his job. Cops are not given firearms for the purposes of disabling suspects they cannot arrest by other means. They are given them as personal security to protect life in a last resort. Police are under the same restrictions as civilians when choosing to shoot someone. Justice, in a civilised society, is not served by allowing the police to shoot whomsoever they please simply because they cannot effect an arrest by any other means. Punishment is the business of the courts, not the police. It is NOT their "job".

Inevitable comparisons will be made with America. Even there, cops have been known not to discharge their weapons after drawing them. In Taiwan it is clear, that once the gun comes out, someone must be shot.

Police in Ireland and the UK manage to arrest quite difficult criminals on a daily basis without shooting them first. I'm sure they too would love to go around shooting people willy nilly, but based on previous bad experience, they're not allowed to have guns. They also have learnt, the hard way, that high-speed chases through dimly lit tight urban streets are a risk not worth taking. Although, in fairness, they have helicopters. Can you imagine the mayhem if the Taiwanese police were allowed a helicopter? Pot-shots from the sky. Reminds me of home....

[Armed cops in my family have taken fairly serious beatings and not pulled out the service pistol. The risk of injury is considered part of the job. I have sympathy for cops in certain countries where cops get pinged off without notice and yet who still keep cool. I have no respect for cops who go to the gun at the first time of asking. Any twat can do that.]

[Deuce Eater]

Come on, LL. Why are you talking about cops? :idunno:

His bac was.56? Gtfooh cops.

How do you know what occurred after they crashed? I saw one guy on the scooter in front of the cop, not two.

How does HE even know?

Drunk drivers abound in Taiwan, and many of them are nailed for it. The impression I get is that you are defending your friend's really stupid irresponsible fucking behavior by focusing on the cop not only chasing him, but shooting him. :thumbsdown:

The cop is a pencil dick for shooting a gun at a much larger man who probably, a safe guess I think, walked through getting smashed with a metal rod on the arm? Oh? So what, the scooter driver is big swinging cowboy dick for thinking he could drive through a massive cloud of inebriation on a scooter WITHOUT a cop chasing him? :confused:

Nonsense. :thumbsdown:

All you "He's a great guy" people, go put your kid on the back of that scooter. Oh no, you'd say. He wouldn't have done that. Yeah, he'd just do it to himself. :confused:

And you think this was the first time? Please. I'm glad he wrote his letter and begged for mercy. If he's lucky they'll just throw him out. but twenty years here and that's it? Fuck man. That sucks so bad. You all seem to love him so much, he must have had some good qualities, but damn. Damn. Shame on him.

And TC, my holier than thou attitude comes seeing another really great guy whose fucking skull was caved in so badly the docs couldn't repair or replace it. He looked like a flattened basketball. Drunk on a scooter, no collision. It ruined his family. :confused:

Folks, your friend is so lucky in so many ways. How about a nice 28 day vacation recommendation IF he ever gets out. Come to think of it, how about one for the other guy you know is headed down the same fucking path. :thumbsup:

As it is, the cop shows no signs of anything more than an enjoyable evening out on the beat shooting civilians.

That's fucking ridiculous and completely baseless. Your buddy showed no sign of anything close to reasonable drinking or personal control and anyone who was there when he drove off and could have prevented it is reprehensible.