• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know…
    The guy crying while crawling through the hallway with an entire swat team screaming at him and then getting executed was also pretty bad.
    The guy shot in the back multiple times while running away from the police officer was just chilling.

    All these shooting without consequences are just bizarre.

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      The hallways one pisses me off to no extent. From the pig who killed him having “Get Fucked” or whatever it was engraved on his rifle, down to the very fact they responded with nothing but conflicting and confusing commands. He was told to crawl towards them but also keep his hands above his head, which is impossible to do, crawling requires hands and knees on the ground, shuffling only requires knees. Then, the clearly intoxicated and unarmed man crying and shuffling towards them has his pants keep falling down, and like any of us would do, instinctively kept pulling them back up. Instead of the pigs telling him to ignore his pants, y’know, to help alleviate some of the stress the poor guy is experiencing, they scream once at him to keep his hands up and then they open fire on him when he instinctively does it again. There’s one of him, and at least half a dozen fully armed and armored pigs, and pulling pants up was soooooooooooooo threatening to these pieces of shit who like to play dress up as soldiers, they riddled him with bullets and he got to bleed out on a carpet in a hotel hallway.

      The report was a man brandishing a rifle in a hotel window, and at no point did they guy give any evidence he was packing a rifle or trying to be uncooperative with the pigs. And they killed him, because he didn’t want his pants to fall. Don’t worry though, the pig that killed him was medically retired due to PTSD from the event. I bet the victim sure wishes he could’ve medically retired from PTSD, but that privilege is only for pigs apparently.

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        But we know people are subject to crowd panic. It’s not an excuse, but definitely part of the reason was they worked themselves into a frenzy until someone let loose. They’re all guilty, but it’s also a human weakness that police need to solve

        This one I can’t even see how it happened. There was no crowd, nothing that could be perceived as threatening, no real possibility of any sort of violence, not even a threat of escaping. Most importantly, she was the “victim”, she called for help, how does that turn into her being suspicious? We’re far beyond any possibility of an excuse for that behavior, but I don’t even see how

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          thats why you have training.and not the kind that convinces you you’re on a deniable black ops mission in Falujah at 4am infiltrating Al Qaeda when actually it’s Just Some Dude.

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          These mfs are basically trained to see civilians as a threat. So I’m not surprised that they randomly attack people who are not threats. Psychological conditioning can be very powerful

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          That is a reason why it is a systemic problem - because crowd panic and situative anticipation is not trained enough.

          There is a reason police training in basically all industrial nations takes multiple years. One would expect the US with a dangerous environment to even take longer… instead it is smaller than it is in most developing nations.

          Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733

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        The report was a man brandishing a rifle in a hotel window,

        Whenever this is the trigger for police involvement it always surprises me that the “2nd amendment” people that constantly caress Republicans balls have nothing to say about people being executed for owning weapons.

        They’re fine with it because it’s almost always someone from a minority group getting executed as we always hear their bullshit versions of why these people deserved it.

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          The NRA and Reagan backed gun control in California once black and brown people started arming themselves

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          The NRA had nothing to say about Philando Castile getting murdered by the cops for doing exactly what the NRA says you are supposed to do if you’re pulled over by the cops with a gun in the car.