SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    The riots in America and the attempted overthrow of the United States
Page 1 ... 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 ... 351
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
The riots in America and the attempted overthrow of the United States Login/Join 
Unflappable Enginerd
Picture of stoic-one
posted Hide Post
Let me get this right, these 5 "officers" were part of an "elite policing unit" called the "scorpions"?

Explainer-Tyre Nichols Case: What Is Memphis' Controversial SCORPION Police Unit?

quote:
Memphis officials have said the unit comprises about 40 officers in four teams concentrating on crime hot spots. Each team has members focused on car theft, gang investigations and "crime suppression," Mayor Jim Strickland said in a speech in January 2022.

A 2021 video about the unit's launch showed several dozen officers, mostly men, going through roll call before heading on patrols. Some wore plain clothes and drove unmarked cars.

In its first few months of existence, between October 2021 and Jan. 23, 2022, SCORPION made 566 arrests. Of those, 390 were felony arrests, according to Strickland. Officers seized tens of thousands of dollars and over 250 weapons, the mayor said....

The Nichols case has raised concerns that the unit strayed from its core mission, had inadequate oversight and used tactics that increased the risk of violence.


Ya think? What exactly was the training regimen for this "elite" unit?


__________________________________

NRA Benefactor
I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident.
http://www.aufamily.com/forums/
 
Posts: 6388 | Location: Headland, AL | Registered: April 19, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie
Picture of Balzé Halzé
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by stoic-one:

Ya think? What exactly was the training regimen for this "elite" unit?


Watching Training Day apparently. Maybe more than once.


~Alan

Acta Non Verba
NRA Life Member (Patron)
God, Family, Guns, Country

Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan

 
Posts: 31139 | Location: Elv. 7,000 feet, Utah | Registered: October 29, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
My experience with "elite" or specialized units is that they require increased supervision, not less, in order to function lawfully and properly.
For example, our dope unit often had a prosecutor or prosecutors investigator present with them on operations or raids.


End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
 
Posts: 16491 | Location: Marquette MI | Registered: July 08, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
I imagine that the "Scorpion Team" is soon to be only a memory.
 
Posts: 109827 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
 
Posts: 109827 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Wait, what?
Picture of gearhounds
posted Hide Post
Dang- and they really took out all the stops coming up with that name…

Street
Crimes
Operations to
Restore
Peace
in
Our
Neighborhoods




“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
 
Posts: 15943 | Location: Martinsburg WV | Registered: April 02, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
As an aside, I hate all this acronym stuff, where, rather than creating an acronym from a logical name- NRA, for example- they create a (usually) convoluted name so that they can have a cool acronym, such as SCORPION.
 
Posts: 109827 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
semi-reformed sailor
Picture of MikeinNC
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:


That's a crazy story, wow! One on one though right? Not five on one. I have seen videos of encounters with people on PCP, they feel no pain.


1:1
The taser didn’t work, I’d never met anyone on PCP before, and I was the first cop in town who had…it was the beginning of a long PCP high fights/encounters we had.
The King incident in LA was actually a PCP fight-and that’s why it looked so bad with the cops swarming him, baton strikes, back off and give orders, swarm in…rinse repeat…
You should read the book Presumed Guilty by Sgt Coon who got arrested-he did explain the how and why what they did.
https://www.amazon.com/Presume...Affair/dp/0895265079

but yeah, 1 vs 1 there is a reason as to why deadly force was used vs 5:1

/drift



"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein

“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020

“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
 
Posts: 11535 | Location: Temple, Texas! | Registered: October 07, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
delicately calloused
Picture of darthfuster
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
As an aside, I hate all this acronym stuff, where, rather than creating an acronym from a logical name- NRA, for example- they create a (usually) convoluted name so that they can have a cool acronym, such as SCORPION.


I notice they didn't call their unit Fathers Against Incredibly Radical Imbeciles Every September.



You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
 
Posts: 29962 | Location: Norris Lake, TN | Registered: May 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
This latest incident has managed to put this thread into the Million Views Club.
 
Posts: 109827 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I have never seen anything like the media frenzy over this. They are bound and determined to make this bigger than George Floyd. Everyone from the President down to my local Governor is supposed to comment. I suppose they figure, the more people they approach, the more chance they have of someone making a statement they can exploit, that doesn't fit the racist cop scenario. Why is my Virginia governor expected to comment on a police incident in another state? The more you see of this coverage, the more obvious, that it's being orchestrated by George Soros types, bent on dividing the races to the detriment of the country.
 
Posts: 2560 | Location: Central Virginia | Registered: July 20, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Fighting the good fight
Picture of RogueJSK
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
As an aside, I hate all this acronym stuff, where, rather than creating an acronym from a logical name- NRA, for example- they create a (usually) convoluted name so that they can have a cool acronym, such as SCORPION.


Yeah, it's becoming increasingly common in all sectors/industries, including politics (as you know): https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/4510002894
 
Posts: 33324 | Location: Northwest Arkansas | Registered: January 06, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Frangas non Flectes
Picture of P220 Smudge
posted Hide Post
Well, I finally watched it. Or at least until the medics arrived. That was tough to sit through. Let's be frank: If that was six white cops, Memphis would be a smoking pile of rubble right now.


______________________________________________
Carthago delenda est
 
Posts: 17835 | Location: Sonoran Desert | Registered: February 10, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Step by step walk the thousand mile road
Picture of Sig2340
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
...

There's no excuse for a 20 minute scene time there.



I agree, especially with someone clearly beaten to a pulp.





Nice is overrated

"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
 
Posts: 32323 | Location: Loudoun County, Virginia | Registered: May 17, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Partial dichotomy
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Well, I finally watched it. Or at least until the medics arrived. That was tough to sit through. Let's be frank: If that was six white cops, Memphis would be a smoking pile of rubble right now.


I still haven't seen it and can't find it. Maybe I shouldn't.




SIGforum: For all your needs!
Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>
 
Posts: 39437 | Location: SC Lowcountry/Cape Cod | Registered: November 22, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Frangas non Flectes
Picture of P220 Smudge
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns:
I still haven't seen it and can't find it. Maybe I shouldn't.


Better to enjoy your Saturday evening and seek alternate things to think about. This one's just all bad.


______________________________________________
Carthago delenda est
 
Posts: 17835 | Location: Sonoran Desert | Registered: February 10, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
You have cow?
I lift cow!
posted Hide Post
Did he really just refuse to bend his wrist and allow the cuffs? Holding out until the end?

Or was this a target?

And what's this crap about "pole cams?" If the street light outside my house is filming me, well there's been a lot of weather and stuff that could damage such things lately.


------------------------------
http://defendersoffreedom.us/
 
Posts: 7044 | Location: Bay Area | Registered: December 09, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie
Picture of Balzé Halzé
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns:


I still haven't seen it and can't find it. Maybe I shouldn't.


You can watch with our friend Donut Operator. This was his livestream from last night so his first viewing as well. I think he starts viewing the content around the 6 minute mark.

I won't bother embedding since it's age restricted.

https://youtu.be/qbmewKE0uOg


~Alan

Acta Non Verba
NRA Life Member (Patron)
God, Family, Guns, Country

Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan

 
Posts: 31139 | Location: Elv. 7,000 feet, Utah | Registered: October 29, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Partial dichotomy
posted Hide Post
Yeah, I should have passed on that.

But it confirms that some of humanity regardless of occupation, shouldn't be participating in life.




SIGforum: For all your needs!
Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>
 
Posts: 39437 | Location: SC Lowcountry/Cape Cod | Registered: November 22, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
semi-reformed sailor
Picture of MikeinNC
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Slippery Pete:

And what's this crap about "pole cams?" If the street light outside my house is filming me, well there's been a lot of weather and stuff that could damage such things lately.


Where I worked, pole cameras were installed when we began having serious violent crimes in the areas. If you pay attention when you are driving around you might see “trespassing “ signs that empower the local police. Then further down the road you will start seeing cameras-or not. We had a pole at a big intersection that we (police) had the city power guys install it and it looked like a transformer. Several others were inside a mesh box on the pole the same color as transformers.

A few locals figured out what they were, even knowing, they began to forget them…consciously.



"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein

“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020

“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
 
Posts: 11535 | Location: Temple, Texas! | Registered: October 07, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 ... 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 ... 351 
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    The riots in America and the attempted overthrow of the United States

© SIGforum 2024