• Promethiel@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So, why aren’t we allowed to wait until there is actual information before we pick up news?

    Simple. Whence does the information come from, what benefits would said groups have from a non-timely release of information (hint: it’s the same groups caught losing footage and running out procedural clocks on FOIA requests), and how did you solve the age old question of “who watches the watchers” that you can even begin to entertain these notions?

    Came at him with a bat? What slapstick comedy do you think was this scared citizens last fractions of a second before being gunned down? How many minorities shot first and asked about never does it take for you to make a pattern?

    A sworn officer was called and shot the caller dead. Frankly, fuck off. That is enough to rage away with.

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      Everything you just said after “who watches the watchers” is purely conjecture. You have no fucking idea what happened.

      Did I ever say I didn’t want fucking news about cops shooting victims? If you could read, you would see I would like to wait until there is actual information about the shooting, so stupid mother fuckers like you don’t simply make up their own “facts”.

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        4 months ago

        you would see I would like to wait until there is actual information about the shooting

        They never release information.
        They keep shooting people.
        You keep calling everyone else a ‘stupid mother fucker’ while their family cries.
        Your life adds up to being someone who defended systems of human authorities over human lives. This is not something anyone misses.

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        4 months ago

        So many of these stories are months or even years after the fact because unless the media gets on it, the incident gets buried immediately, and by the time the media gets ahold of it any investigation is challenging because it’s either so long after the fact or police “lost” evidence.

        It being reported immediately starts the accountability and makes it much more likely that there will be an investigation in the first place. Either you are too young to remember or just weren’t noticing, but reports of police killing unarmed minorities was exceptionally rare a few decades ago. Cops got away with anything and everything. That’s where Black Lives Matter came from, getting the mainstream media (and the justice department) to care when a black person gets killed.

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          4 months ago

          As I’ve said already, I’m not opposed in the least to the immediate reporting. I’m opposed to the assumptions made based on that limited reporting.