• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Now lets put you there under an attack and give you 4 seconds to decide what to do. I wanna see that Sparta kick.

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      8 months ago

      I’ll do you one better, I’ve been attacked with actual weapons dozens of times and harmed someone beyond scraped knees and elbows defusing that situation zero times. I work in mental health, we’re not allowed to hurt the people that need our help. Workers that do face legal action and internal investigation immediately, and every one of those actions stays on your record for years.

      Cops are cowards, and you’re another.

        • in4aPenny@lemmy.world
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          Because as a cop you dehumanize yourself and other people, therefore are undeserving of humanity. Ya’ll have been killing black kids long before that time ya’ll dropped C4 explosives on their homes in 1985. Cops are irredeemable fascist pigs, gun-wielding arms of the state, whom the 2nd ammendment was written to permit shooting.

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      8 months ago

      4 seconds to decide what to do.

      Isn’t that what training is for? To train the brain to react appropriately? Why do hair dressers require more training than cops?

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        The training, what little there is, is the problem in this case unfortunately. All the killology and us vs them horseshit they tell cops leads to precisely this type of situation. Proper training means that is indeed more than enough time to check down an ROE before using lethal force, but when you have a hammer and no one punishes you for hitting the wrong nail…every kid looks like a nail if they’re they wrong socioeconomic type or color and you’re constantly in “fear for your life.”

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        8 months ago

        The point is that it’s quite easy here to observe the video comfortably from your couch at home and with the power of hindsight ponder what they should’ve done instead. The officer being attacked here had no such luxury. This is in no way me saying that there’s zero issues on how policing is done in the US. There’s nuance to these things.

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      8 months ago

      Why is it important to let everyone know that you are at any given moment about 4 seconds away from killing a child?

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          8 months ago

          I was willing to give your argument consideration until this braindead-ass comment. You can fuck right off now. Goddamn boot lickers.

          • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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            8 months ago

            Describing a teenage boy as a child is just pushing a narrative to minimize the potential threath by him. Look at the pictures in the article. If someone his age and size charges at you while wielding a weapon then you should be scared for your life. That is not to say shooting is the optimal solution but you better do something and quick.

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              8 months ago

              I looked at his picture and I see a child.

              You looked at his picture and you saw his black skin, and that was all you needed to see…

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                8 months ago

                I think it’s safe to assume that of us two it’s you whose more interested about the color of his skin

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                  8 months ago

                  As an active duty member of the US Navy and specifically the submarine forces, people like you make me less and less hesitant to set condition 1SQ for nuclear launch when the time comes.

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          8 months ago

          No mother fucker. No. This was not a man. This WAS a child. Fuck off with your quotation marks.

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      8 months ago

      If you can’t handle a teenager with a gardening tool what the fuck can you handle?

      Keep in mind: these are supposed to be trained professionals with convenient access to lethal weapons and yet every. god. damn. fucking. time their response is to escalate to the point of killing.

      Cops can go fuck themselves. As a profession they’ve proven themselves as capable as a toddler and as dumb, angry, and confused as… I don’t know. I didn’t even think it was possible to be as dumb, angry, and confused as they are.