The Minneapolis Police Choke an Unarmed Handcuffed Black Man to Death

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Cuz they'll put them in the showers?
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Palmetto State Armory has used LE trade in full size M&P 40 on sale for $269, they have one 15 round magazine and night sights. I need to pick one up already lol, have a compact 40 already with some extra FS magazines.

Was actually looking at those today. I'm a newb with hand guns. So sorting through the endless info and lists online is time consuming. Thanks for the info. That's a great price
 

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Find a police trade in (if you can) and get a barely fired weapon (most cases) with holster wear. Example:
My PX4 Storm is a police trade in and my M&P 40 is a Detroit Police trade in.

I didn't notice if they say how many times they have been fired. I would imagine all LE weapons have been fired many many times, just from practice. I would assume LE weapons would be of high quality dependable weapons
 

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I didn't notice if they say how many times they have been fired. I would imagine all LE weapons have been fired many many times, just from practice. I would assume LE weapons would be of high quality dependable weapons

The vast majority will be in great shape, well cared for. The majority of the wear is mostly from the holster. FWIW not all officers live at the range, some just do the bare minimum.
 

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I didn't notice if they say how many times they have been fired. I would imagine all LE weapons have been fired many many times, just from practice. I would assume LE weapons would be of high quality dependable weapons



my wife recently picked up a LEO buyback Glock 22

her agency just switched from HK40 to Glock 9mm. everyone is saying they like the new Glocks much better.
 

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The vast majority will be in great shape, well cared for. The majority of the wear is mostly from the holster. FWIW not all officers live at the range, some just do the bare minimum.


And some their reputation proceeds them, on my counties Sheriff they had an ex tunnel rat when he was doing his 3 tours in Nam 66-71. He was credited with about 45 kills doing his trade and so when he became a deputy, no one and I mean no one stepped over the line and if they did they quickly got back in line. He said to one bar ruffian that was being detained for disorderly conduct, I ripped 2 gooks heads clean off with my hands and if you don't want me to demonstrate then shut up sit down and wait for the cruiser. He was no bad ass as he said he done things that'll always haunt him and so he was more of a humorist type than anything else. He never once unholstered his Security 6 that he bought for his patrol side arm from 1980-92 before finally retiring. Yes he only had 12 years but between what he was getting for his veteran pay and LEO it was enough to live comfortably on.
 

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Taurus worth considering? Local gun shop has a PT92 AF 9mm for 350. Taurus g2c 9mm are $300.
 

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If getting a tactical shotgun, go with a semi-auto over a pump. Racking a pump makes the perp leave a nasty smelling mess in his pants and it sometimes lingers after the body is removed.
 

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"That arrest looked pretty bad, too. The jury forewoman on the first trial said that when she saw the King video on television, “I was revulsed. … I thought they were hitting that poor man too hard and too long.”

But at the trial a year later, she got to see the 13 seconds of video that had been deliberately edited out by the media: the 6-foot-4, 240-pound King rising like a phoenix and charging at one of the officers.

The video that played on an endless loop on TV showed only the tail end of the encounter, when officers were whacking King with their batons.

In fact, however, the beating was the officers’ last resort for subduing King, who’d just led them on a high-speed car chase, at times reaching speeds of up to 115 mph, drawing several police cars and a police helicopter.

Once stopped, King’s two (black) passengers exited the car and got on the ground, as instructed. They went home without a scratch that night.

But King leapt out and began dancing and babbling, crouching, kneeling, laughing and waving to the police helicopter overhead. Both the officers and King’s passengers believed he was high on angel dust.

The senior officer, Sgt. Stacey Koon, ordered the officers to back away and holster their guns. He didn’t want to risk a fatal encounter.

Four officers tried swarming King — he threw them off his back like rag dolls. A dart from a Taser gun did nothing. Then another — also nothing. King lunged at an officer and got hit with a baton, but kept on raging. The police were running out of options that would allow everyone to stay alive.

That’s when three officers began hitting King with their metal batons, under the supervision of Sgt. Koon. If King moved, they whacked him. Finally, they managed to double-cuff him — the procedure for suspects on PCP — and put him in an ambulance to the hospital."

I never heard this. I just heard that there was no way they could convict those officers once the evidence was shown. But no one ever reported the actual evidence even after the trial.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE’S RODNEY KING … - Ann Coulter

Is there anything we do not know in this instance? We just found out he had multiple high doses of illegal drugs in him and had both coronary and hypertension heart disease....
Im still wondering why they sat on him for so long after they cuffed him? Did they wait for him to stop moving?
 

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