The former vice president said police should be trained to shoot protesters "in the leg".
ZitatPresumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Monday police should be trained to shoot at the legs of assailants, which police training experts decry as impractical and dangerous.
"We also have to fundamentally change the way police are trained," he said. "The idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person that's coming at them with a knife so they shoot him in the leg instead of in the heart, is a very different thing. There's a lot of different things that can change."
Biden addressed parishioners and local leaders at a black church in Wilmington, Delaware, as riots tore across the country following the nonshooting death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. He also said, if elected, he would try to form a police oversight committee in the first 100 days of his presidency. The comments come as Biden attempts to separate himself from President Trump on how he would respond to the rioting and deal with tensions between police and the communities they serve.
I have no problem with this so long as Joe provides a real life demonstration using a real life would be assassin coming at him with a knife, or machete, or sword, or chain saw, or whatever.
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #3Interesting observation, PzLdr. That would give Basement Boy Biden the opportunity to show how to shoot a weapon out of a bad guy's hand.
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