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Those wounded Ferguson police

I’m sorry the two Ferguson policemen were shot (one of them in the face), but even more sorry that the issue of police killings has turned from a problem many agreed needed solving to an Hussein Obama-Al Sharpton controversy. I agree the latter have made things worse, but that’s all you could really expect from them.

It’s simply past time for police across the country to begin training on how to subdue people who are resisting arrest without killing them. Then there’d have been no Ferguson rioting and probably these two wounded officers would not be. Keep up the police killings of recent years and there’ll be more shootings of police. Ipso facto.

UPDATE:  Or perhaps better yet, as JAY352 says in the comments here: the bar on use of force needs to be raised.