Yes, 9 rounds fired from behind! It's baffling. Maybe he was trying to take out the wheelchair motor and hit the guy instead? Even then, and even though he had a knife, he's wheelchair bound! There must be a hundred possible ways to stop him without using a gun.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
At least they immediately fired the cop and released the video though, I guess that's progress?
― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
again: disarm american beat police
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
it's baffling to me that people find this baffling in 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
no personal shade intended
Even then, and even though he had a knife, he's wheelchair bound! There must be a hundred possible ways to stop him without using a gun.
The cop could literally have run over and pushed him off the scooter. But, you know, that would involve running.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
i would have used a nearby wrench to jam up the wheels, thereby stopping the perpetrator in their very tracks
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
a flying jump kick might have worked as well
Jump-kicking someone out of a motorized wheelchair would have been better than shooting them to death but also falls under the umbrella of excessive force. It would be admittedly hilarious excessive force, but still.
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
that's true. this leads us to the final idea, the most failproof but also the least practical: the door that leads to a hallway of banana peels
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
They could've just followed him around until his battery ran out.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Fucking disgusting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs
― DJI, Friday, 3 December 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
According to district attorney’s records reviewed by The Times, one officer sent a text message referring to a deposition he gave after shooting.“They believed our lies. Good job sticking to the script,” he wrote. “LMAO, that’s what they call a W.” https://t.co/1qHfKFlHIp— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 8, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 11 December 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
LATimes headline: Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases.
Better headline: Racist, homophobic Torrance police jeopardize hundreds of people with false imprisonment.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
God cops really are dumb: “congrats on lying under oath, which is a crime, which we planned to commit and indeed committed. A crime.”
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
If you're going to be evil, might as well be stupid too
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
Y'all, the conservative media is running with this for different reasons, but you cannot make this shit up.
Eric Adams’ new NYPD commissioner is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Assata Shakur. pic.twitter.com/TshnCS3U31— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) December 15, 2021
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 December 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
what a coincidence
Two Dems who support police reform carjacked less than 24 hours apart https://t.co/jushwinWqX pic.twitter.com/F3Jtfusdfl— New York Post (@nypost) December 23, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
I used to know someone who did radical anti-police/pro-BLM organizing and she ended up with cops parked on her street relentlessly ticketing her on purpose until she had to stop driving because she couldn't afford it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
kim potter verdict to be delivered shortly. manslaughter seems like a slam dunk but what do i know. also haven't watched any of this, whereas i basically saw the whole chauvin trial
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 December 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
I had to listen to my dumb sister in Prior Lake list all the ways this poor guy was in violation of various laws and how the poor lady cop’s actions were an accident bla bla bla and all I could say to her besides ‘accidents are manslaughter’ was ‘none of these things you say about him are reasons he should be dead’.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
She’s guilty
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 December 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
"Mistakes were made ..."
https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/lapd-chief-says-officers-appear-to-have-accidentally-killed-a-14-year-old-girl-in-burlington-coat-factory-dressing-room
― nickn, Friday, 24 December 2021 06:08 (two years ago) link
Shopping for her quinceañera. Brutal.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 December 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
Not their fault; it was that dastardly bullet.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHZdSREXMAUaiBt.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 25 December 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
STRAY BULLET KILLS, it was just a coincidence that police fired their guns at the same time.
So heartsick. I hate it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 25 December 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
In the session, conducted by Lexipol and titled “Arrest Related Deaths: Managing Your Medical Examiner,” he suggested that such deaths were outside the control of officers.“Decades ago we used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome, and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,” he said at one point in the training session, adding later: “Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”
“Decades ago we used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome, and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,” he said at one point in the training session, adding later: “Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
~i fucking love science~
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@billytibbsinator/video/7044760294098275589
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
Not sure if this belongs here, except for the bogus 'citizens arrest' part
Ahmaud Arbery's killers sentenced to life in prison
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ahmaud-arbery-killing-mcmichael-bryan-sentencing/index.html
Life without parole for two of them
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 January 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
omg "arrest related death syndrome" !!!!!!!
― sarahell, Friday, 7 January 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
yeah i'm still having so many thoughts about that one and some other things
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
goddamn
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
like it's such a big admission, just sitting there! i mean:
Decades ago
no, still doing this shit every day
we
"we" = cops (the people you work for)
used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome
used to use pseudoscience to put people in jail
and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,
people (not "we) were able to show they were innocent, even though "we" tried our best to hide the truth
“Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”
hopefully in the future "we" can discover a new fake syndrome so "we" don't have to be held responsible for when "we" kill someone
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
worth noting that SIDS/SUID are when you can't determine the cause, not when you know the cause but don't want to "blame the police officer"
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link
Confirmation that Seattle police were spreading fake rumors of armed Proud Boys in the area to destabilize CHAZ/CHOP: https://mynorthwest.com/3301600/spd-fake-reports-proud-boys-protesters-radio-chatter-opa/
― JoeStork, Friday, 7 January 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 7, 2022 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 7, 2022 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
basically my thoughts as i'm trying to fall asleep after getting high on a weeknight
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
this is not about police brutality as much as it is about how government operates generally, but it haunts me
By broadcasting mutually contradictory, needlessly convoluted, nonsensical policies, an institution can ensure that for each victim there is a narrative where that victim *disobeyed*— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) January 1, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
foucault is real
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
YES, and that gets to my other thought in the stream of consciousness, all of these white house/CDC messages (such as the one pre-christmas where the white house said the unvaccinated could look forward to a winter of death?) i think to myself "who the fuck is this even for?" it can't be to persuade the unvaccinated (because if so...woof) it is meant to tell a story about how these failures are anyone else's fault.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
"science is real" is "do your own research" for liberals
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
Science is really anything I want it to be based on my personal circumstances
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
^ science
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Saturday, 8 January 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
does it work the other way, like, if someone kills an on duty cop attacking them, can they also consider the cop's death "arrest related death syndrome"?
― sarahell, Saturday, 8 January 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link
just be real and say "it's not illegal when a cop does it"
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
^ the Nixon defense
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 8 January 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
Our local sheriff's department killed a guy a few years ago by hogtying him and putting him on his stomach and sitting on him. He was a huge guy, and was apparently on opioids at the time, so the official ruling was his asphyxiation was an OD death that the officers couldn't have known about because they didn't know he was high. The D.A. declined to prosecute. The family sued and won a $750,000 settlement from the county. None of the officers involved suffered any repercussions at all.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
that's such a typical story by now that it should be the plot of every cop show on television
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link