The Syrian man who blew himself up in Ansbach made a video pledging allegiance to the leader of so-called Islamic State, Bavaria's interior minister says.
The attacker announced in the video "in the name of Allah that he pledged allegiance to [IS chief] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... and announced an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam," Mr Hermann said.
Logic then dictates syrians refugees must be always accepted, because if not the government is responsible for them suicide-bombing their citizens to death in justified retaliation!
It might be that the decision to deport was too much for a highly unstable individual to take, but that would hardly make it justified to kill innocent festival-goers. What I've read points to him not having the best of head-health.
No evidence of contact with terror groups at this time. But; "The government department responsible for migrants and refugees was expected to give more information later in the day as to why the man’s asylum application had been turned down. Since last summer, when Merkel said no one from Syria would be turned away, it is highly unusual for a Syrian citizen to not receive asylum in Germany."
Not helped by the fact that people are now, actively trying to target police due to political establishment focusing massive hate on it. Many police are on edge.
The establishment is focusing massive hate on the police?
Thanks and yes I know, just trying to be as witty as you
The different variations of "the people are just asking to not be shot everytime they go out!" is like the best meme of all time regarding the US police - public FUBAR relationship today and shows the retardness of anti-police movement
Police is one of the toughest, most demanding and codified job, especially so with the US history of public scrutiny.
Like Lt_Anders said the impact of the public on how police operates can be a two edged sword: it probably pushed the police to become way better than before but at the same time it can stop police from doing police. From what I've seen, read, felt, the US police is almost as good as it can get under the immense and still growing pressure and hate from the people they serve, mostly blacks in the wrong neighoboroud and white liberals with a passion for unearthing injustice even where there is none.
When the "political action" you mentionned becomes harassment, obstruction and hate toward those who impose law and order (policemen), what happens is what you see today in the US: people do not respect police work, hinder their actions, resist lawful intervention and see all perps as victims of a pre-supposed wrongful police before thinking up of anything. Add gender/race/identity/what have you, social media SJW's bubbles, and humans being the usual generalization machines, mixing up the bad and the good and proclaiming that everything is either bad or good, and you got the US police work environment today. A bigoted shitfest that is in great need of political support from the government.... not more "political action" from extremists retards (not saying you are, but you seem to be part of the misguided bunch at the very least).
Peaceful politics. If just "political action" sounds violent.
... Someone important like the US president need to step up and say "we love our police" while keeping it strictly under control (it always need to be), and start actively building government-police and police-civilian trust ASAP.
That would be easy if the police were under control like that. The reality is something different. The police form an entity with quite a bit of political power for themselves in the US. This is why some practices with extremely unfortunate effects for police-civilian trust are not so easy to stop. Take civil forfeiture for example:
I don't think it's misguided to be aware that there are some things in law enforcement that should be changed, for the good of all of us. To read this as hating the police is to miss something essential. And it should go without saying that murdering the police doesn't make it better.
The first decree signed by Erdogan authorizes the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions over suspected links to the Gulen movement.
Critics of Erdogan fear he is using the abortive coup to wage an indiscriminate crackdown on dissent. The foundations targeted include, for example, the Association of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), a secular group that criticized a recent judicial law drafted by Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party.
Honestly, it's probably something as simple as that cop being scared shitless. Police are humans as well, we shouldn't forget how susceptible many of us can be to fear. He could have panicked at something stupid, even a thought, and fired as a knee-jerk reaction. This seems like the most likely case considering the baffling "I don't know" comment.
There's no doubt that there was fear. It's a tough job and anybody would be afraid in the situation. The problem is how often that fear is allowed to translate into completely nonviolent people being shot and killed.
That's also why the Dallas shooting was doubly tragic. Not only the loss of life, but it and actions like that make the police fear even more.
I think there is more probability that the police officer who shot had a reason (beside the laughing "I dont know" portrayed in the articles) than the moon being made of pudding. Equating both would be a lack of common sense.
Haha, that's a fine judgement of probability! Though, it's not the probability, it's the pertinence.
The only trend I've seen so far is a political war on US police. The popular perception of a perpetual increase of unjustified excessive force is just that, a popular perception. US police has moved way past the seventies methods, adding new strict ones past 9/11, while the people is growing even more retardedly bigoted than before in their view of it.
People don't want to be shot when they are doing everything the police tell them to. Asking for that is not waging a political war on the police.
If the police think that this is acceptable, then the initiative for correcting this state of affairs must come from outside the police force. By political action.
Maybe they didn't. Maybe there is. Maybe the moon is made of pudding.
I won't say that extenuating circumstances cannot be found, but even if they are there, this is definitely a failure of police enforcement. It's not an isolated incident either, there's a trend of people being shot even when they comply with police orders. And that's not great.
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