"May have had a vape pen", I guess we'll be seeing that argument in this thread in the future.
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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Understandable. The officer obviously feared for his life and lung cancer from second hand smoke is no joke. Good shoot in my book.
We get it, you vape.
*shoots to kill*
*shoots to kill*
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The money for these things should come out of the wages and pensions for the police, not from the taxpayers money that could be better spent elsewhere. If all the police started feeling the consequences of their actions maybe something might change.
Maybe, but that's also letting the employer (the city, the county, whatever) off the hook. They're responsible for training, guidelines, etc. If people don't want their tax money to go to settling lawsuits, they should vote for people or measures that can fix the problem.
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fecking hell
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How's your memory?
It’s America, which means there is a 50% chance these are separate incidents… but yah, late night Cal?
Didn't even stay up to watch the Rays blow the lead!It’s America, which means there is a 50% chance these are separate incidents… but yah, late night Cal?
No clue how that happened. Thanks. Fixed.
I figured you might be drinking off the Rays/Red Sox double choke combo.
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American cops seem to be qualified at nothing so much as dramatic escalation.
In all honesty I don't think I would call the police unless I was in genuine fear for my life as at least at that point it's 50/50 anyways. I know not all cops are bad, but JFC there seems to be a bunch of bad shit every day.
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Reported for posting porn. Granted, it’s only porn for @Dr. Dwayne , but still porn.
Why did any of that happen? They're really concerned about a knife that nobody was in danger from. It's like an exercise in how to everything wrong. I find it mind boggling that in so many of these videos they seem to twist the situation towards an escalation that leads to the inevitable trigger pull. I've zero training in this regard but it seems fairly obvious that this is the exact opposite of what you should do in an attempt to calm a situation down.
Absolute scum.
feck's sake it was great until I saw the bottom tweet.
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Is it normal to call 911 with car trouble? Isn't there services dedicated to that? I'm not excusing the cops behaviour, to be sure.
Might not have had AAA, etc. & just started to freak out over the predicament.
Heart breaking. Hopefully she gets the justice she seeks, but we all know its highly unlikely.
I'm pretty sure in some parts of the US you're supposed to call 911 to reach the police, but I have no idea if that's the case there.
Oh I'm not questioning the phone number to the police, more that if my car broke down in Denmark I wouldn't call the police about it. It's not their job, unless there's been some kind of accident.
Most (all?) departments have a non-emergency number to call for stuck cars, or if you are in a non-injury traffic accident. In the day of cell phones it is pretty easy to find it online. Personally, I would just call a tow service and not the police, but not everyone has the money/insurance for that.
Not really an american story, but yesterday I was talking to an angolan colleague and he mentioned his church is organizing a trip to the US and a bunch of people are going, mostly black angolans. Most have very poor english so they've created a pamphlet with some tips. One of them is for their black members to not call or approach the police if something bad happens. They should talk to one of the white members and let them handle it.
I'm sure there's a level of paranoia here, but it shows how bad american police reputation is.
I'm sure there's a level of paranoia here, but it shows how bad american police reputation is.
Would you call them if you were in the USA? The chances of them escalating a minor issue into something that could possibly lead to your (those Church goers) death is very high in certain States.
Very understandable.
It would have to be something really serious and I'd probably be nervous as feck.
Oh yeah, for sure. In Norway the police aren't even involved in accidents unless someone's been injured or someone broke the law.
Here they are involved in almost every one as a police report is needed by most insurance companies to process a claim. Stupid use of resources.
That’s really sad to hear
