Geez, unbelievable the lengths they will go. The fact that they do it clearly means they know they may do some shady shite so want to find a way to cover themselves, but I suspect that something like that would be lifted if the crime is clearly caught on camera.
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
If I speak, I'm in big trouble, in big trouble.
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Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all.
@Skizzo , remember this being my top 5 closeness to death despite never bring stopped? 600 people, Sheesh.
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but those people WERE stopped. Your fear falls into the millions of people driving who didn’t get pulled over. Then you’d be in a huge group of people who get pulled over and nothing happens to.
but yes I get what you’re saying.
I clicked on two of the links in the Twitter thread and one had a passenger shot when he was pulling a gun out of his waistband, and another had someone with PCP in their system flee from a traffic stop, including driving wrong way, and then wrestle with an officer, bite him, and get control of his taser.Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all.
So it’s not that 600 traffic stops resulted in someone randomly being shot after the officer walked up to the car and decided to kill someone instead of giving a ticket.
Edit: Since it probably needs saying to avoid assumptions to the contrary, but no I don’t think anyone driving along minding their own business deserves to be shot and killed. Whenever numbers are used in terms of police shootings, killings etc, uses of force etc, it just groups everything into one, ignoring justified uses of force etc.
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If true then this is a gross misuse of power by the Sheriff. If what the reporter claimed in her story is true he needs to be in jail.
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Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all.
Better ratio than that one at least.
disgusting and scary stat, but not surprising. It seems our countries level of civility and empathy is crumbling across all sectors. Hope You stay safe!
Its certainly not limited to interactions with law enforcement, generally everything seems to be trending downwards across the country unfortunately. Appreciate that though! Hopefully the pendulum swings back up again at some point soon.
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Christ
Is that the Don CeSar?
I looked it up! My other guess was going to be the Scientology church but that's not on/that near a big beach and you don't strike me as the Scientology type.
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Not exactly cops but the criminal justice system
Geez man, such a pointless death.
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Absolutely horrifying. Poor man..
saw this too. honestly even though the cops did most of the damage, the initial nurses/docs are as much to blame here.
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Sickening shite again. So terrible.
Having been a police officer myself I wonder what kind of training these officers get, if any? I am not defending them but it's mind-blowing to me that they advanced like they did.
If they suspect him of being armed why do they move towards him in the open, leaving themselves completely exposed? They shouldn't even put themselves in a position where they feel so threatened that they have to shoot.
They want to kill. That's why.
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So glad to see it got handled properly after that dispicable behavior. Shocking that he was fired elsewhere for similar behavior and still got a job again, wonder what happened that they still employed him despite that.
Wonder if that initial hand movement to the chest was to try to disable the body cam?