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Originally Posted by RainMaker
So every officer should be trained to take down suspects of any size and background? Because I hate to break it to you, I could easily beat most of the women in our local police force. I've got a solid 60-70 pound weight advantage and much more muscle mass. Nothing they learn in training is going to overcome that.
I don't know what experience you have in combat but a person of Mike Brown's size will beat someone of Darren Wilson's size in hand to hand combat regardless of the training Wilson has.
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Wearing a badge and a gun doesn't make you invincible... I'm not saying Wilson should've rolled up his window and booked it out of there, but yes there plenty of things Wilson could've done so he didn't put himself in a situation where deadly force or getting his ass kicked were the only 2 options. Such as calling for backup sometime between when he initially fired his gun and when he chased him 50+ yards from the car. Or figuring out a way a place in the car to have the department issue taser that I believe he said he couldn't fit on his belt. Our military has more restrictive R.O.E. than that in war zones.
But hey, I'll also argue that quite a few of those 100 pound female cops (as well as any other cop that is scared during their beat of confronting certain suspects) shouldn't be doing certain things alone.