• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    No one has claimed it looked like a gun. He was running towards the police with a gardening hoe with a clear intention to hit him. There’s video of it in this thread. This is not an example of a police shooting an innocent person. They shot someone that was attacking them with a lethal weapon.

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      8 months ago

      Billy club, taser, or just a good old Sparta kick to the chest. If lethal force is your first instinct when a child comes at you with a stick, you should in no way be allowed to carry a weapon.

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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

          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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            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

      You sure this was what set him off? You sure he didn’t hear an acorn drop?

      Either one can apparently trigger police officer Psycho Mode.