CHICAGO (CBS) – It was a broken window complaint that led to a 14-year-old boy being shot by a police officer.

But before being shot, the teen had been repeatedly tasered. The intense pain caused the teen to run.

Dave Savini and the CBS 2 Investigators reveal a disturbing trend of who officers are more likely to use Tasers on.

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    10 months ago

    a police disciplinary investigation into the incident didn’t even begin until last month - a year and a half after the teen was tasered and shot.

    And this is why ACAB. If it takes the cops that long to even start looking into a problem, then they don’t see it as a problem.

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    10 months ago

    We have reviewed the footage and concluded we didn’t do anything wrong. The officer is now on paid leave (nice vacation) and any damages caused will be paid for by the tax payers.

    We now consider the matter closed.

    Huge /s just in case.

    ACAB

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    10 months ago

    Jesus what an awkwardly worded headline. Who’s being hired as journalists these days?

    How about

    “They tortured him”; police Tased, then shot a special needs teen who broke a window

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        Are you sure? I asked chatGPT to come up with some headlines and they’re all fine.

        1. “CBS Investigates Disturbing Trend: Police Shooting of 14-Year-Old Follows Taser Incident”
        1. “Exclusive: CBS 2 Uncovers Troubling Pattern in Police Taser Use on Teens”
        1. “Chicago Police Shooting Reveals Alarming Taser Use on Youth: CBS Investigation”
        1. “Disturbing CBS Report: 14-Year-Old Shot by Police After Taser Incident”
        1. “CBS Investigation Exposes Police Taser Use on Teens: Shooting of 14-Year-Old Sparks Outrage”
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        10 months ago

        AI does a better job than this. You can literally copy and paste this article into Chat GPT and ask it to write a headline and everything it spits out is better than this.

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    There needs to be a special needs awareness campaign in the US.

    Too many times I’ve come across people in my adult life who should know better how to address people with special needs and they just don’t understand it.

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      Sure, that would be a nice thing to have. But let’s not even imply that this isn’t 100% on the cops. Anyone would have run away if they got tased and were still conscious/mobile. It’s human instinct.

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      Do you really thing people are “unaware” or simply don’t give a fuck? Because if someone is not aware the world is FULL of people with “special needs”(such a patronizing euphemism.) then their problem is they are a fucking idiot who should not be anywhere near a gun. Fuck pigs soooooo much.

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    10 months ago

    This sort of thing terrifies me. I don’t think my daughter, despite her various psychological issues, would ever get to a point that we would have to call the police, and she does have the privilege of being white, but it’s at least within the realm of possibility.

    I can’t think of anything that scares me more than the possibility of outliving my daughter. This poor boy’s parents…

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      10 months ago

      There’s one scenario I can think of that might be worse than outliving my own children. Outliving everyone. If I were to outlive any hypothetical children I might have, I’d be shattered, and probably depressed until I died. If I was a lone survivor of a nuclear or viral apocalypse, I’d probably go completely insane quite quickly. Permanent solitary confinement that has no hope of ending. Quite bleak.

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        10 months ago

        I’m good at solitary, so I wouldn’t go insane, I’d become extremely lonely and suffer from prolonged depression, but carry on none the less.

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    10 months ago

    WHY SHOOT SOMEONE AFTER YOU TAZED THEM‽ That shit just immediately stops them doesn’t it‽

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      10 months ago

      Read the article. He ran away after being tased, which, according to murderous thugs warrants lethal force .

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        The way cops run when there’s an actual threat we should be shooting these shit cops as well, fucking cowards.

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      I think we’ve seen cases where mortal fear and the associated adrenalin causes people to actually get up to save their own lives from this painful threat and try to flee to safety. There’s no actual reasoning going on at that point, from what I hear. But the cops are in their own uncontrolled fight/flight mode, albeit the other side of the coin, and the target is still twitching/running and therefore not subdued. Bad cops escalate to another weapon.