• WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I feel like if police arrive on scene, they’re probably shooting whoever has a gun, “good guy” or “bad guy.” Cops seem pretty jumpy. Perhaps if we could make the good guys and bad guys wear differently colored hats?

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        11 days ago

        Not just empty his clip, but also fatally wounded the person he was transporting at the time. He thought that the guy in the backseat, having already been patted down twice, handcuffed and detained; had a gun.

        This was definitely a reasonable amount of anxiety for a state-sponsored bully to have /s

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          11 days ago

          In the link it specifically states the person wasn’t harmed (somehow). Unless there was a new development in the story this is false. ACAB and all that but we can’t spread misinformation.

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            11 days ago

            Either I’m misremembering or one of the things I’ve seen on it was wrong then. I watched this video earlier this week and I thought I remembered seeing body cam footage of them actually going to check on the guy after the shooting and the dude was dead in the backseat

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      11 days ago

      This was basically the active shooter training I had to attend when I worked at a big office. Even if you’re a “good guy with a gun” when the officials, armed site security or police, roll in they have no idea and you run a huge risk of being assumed to be the aggressor.

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        11 days ago

        Hell, they have a tendency to shoot each other, too. Cops shooting cops and cops shooting security guards are both things that happen.

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      11 days ago

      Uvalde cops be like:

      He also violated the dress code, so we waited to let him get it right. Shooters have this one obligation goddamit.