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State police said body camera video and other information tied to the case is not immediately being released to “protect the integrity of the legal process”

“We need time to plausibly lose this.”

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However, when it’s the very rare occasion that it exonerates the cops, it’s released immediately.

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Were you trying to say “exonerates?”

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Yes…yes i was. Thank you.

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With edits, like red circles around what’s supposedly a weapon. 🙄

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meanwhile, cops also say “oops pardon the intrusion mr white man assassin, please carry on” and climb back down the ladder

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Yeah that was a crazy story. With all the police militarization in this country you’d think they would have some training to go along with it.

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I once got sucked into a copaganda thing in Vegas. (I thought they had Tommy guns). The whole point was to put you on the officer’s shoes to make snap decisions to show why we need to be less critical of police when they kill civilians. I argued with her that this was why we need to increase training and job requirements. The guide did not like that.

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Fun fact, they hate it when a combat veteran comes through and uses military de-escalation ROE. It generally completely exposes them as forcing the scenario.

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… what in the fresh 7 hells? how does putting a civilian in life or death simulations compare at all to a TRAINED “professional” doing what they literally signed up for? lmfao.

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The only thing that can stop a bad guy (read: minority) with a gun is a good guy (read: straight white male) with a gun.

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Is this a Hip Hop Hood reference?

Edit: It just occurred to me that we are living in a stupid 90s comedy.

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Just in case anyone else is wondering: allegedly a police officer confronted the shooter before the shots and when the shooter pointed the gun at him he retreated down the ladder instead of firing at the shooter.

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Cop was like “oh he gonna shoot trump. Carry on.”

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I don’t blame the cop there. He has a gun already on him. Trying to pull his gun would have simply gotten him killed.

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This a “first trump assassination attempt of 2024” reference

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first

Don’t get my hopes up like that

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No deputies were injured, the sheriff’s office said.

Cowards with guns and itchy trigger fingers. Watching bodycam videos on YT, it’s incredible how risk-averse they are. It makes the inaction at Uvalde clearer.

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The Uvalde cops saved lives. Imagine how many kids they would have shot if they had entered the school.

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I would say all of them, but I imagine their marksmanship is terrible.

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I watched one the other day where a black soldier in uniform was pulled over at night so he pulled into a gas station instead of stopping on the side of the dark road and the cops who pulled him over were super aggro about it and from the jump were pointing guns and yelling at him to get out of the vehicle. He put his hands out the window and was asking them what was going on and all they would do was continue screaming at him to do what they say and get out. One of the cops eventually walked all the way up to his window and pepper sprayed him. I think they cops got in trouble for it afterwards but it was so stupid. All they had to do was talk to the dude.

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I believe I’ve seen it and the soldier filed a lawsuit.

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And he’s the lucky one. He survived.

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The best part is, is that pretty much every police department says to…if you get pulled over, to acknowledge the officer, and pull over where its safe, and to drive at low speed, to the nearest illuminated area.

and the second you do exactly that, the swat team is deployed and, if you manage to fucking survive, you end up on the ER with chemical burns at best, broken bones or gunshot at worst.

Following orders is not a guarantee to prevent being murdered, just look at Daniel Shaver.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

The cops have classes that teach them to murder first because protect and serve is bullshit.

There are several of these “classes” that PD pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to train cops to be fascist fuck machines.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-trainer-best-sex-killing/

Historically, all the force, money, and power the cops abuse are why the Templar Knights were eventually tried and burned at the stake for sex crimes, theft, and satanism. Same shit; different century.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/five-officers-fired-sex-scandal-roils-tennessee-police-department-rcna65121

Oddly enough the Knights were tortured to death for their hypocritically evil sexually perverse behavior. I don’t see that happened to these pigs any time soon though. But they will torture and murder you for doing nothing but having a bad day.

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if they acted on the uvalde shooting the number of casualties would have probably tripled.

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That is what corrupts you.

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“It is extremely hard to imagine how a woman who calls the police out of fear of an intruder ends up shot in the head by police at her own home,”

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No, no it’s not. Especially for certain skin tones.

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Was she black? i assume she was black.

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While not a guarantee, it does increase probability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Justine_Damond?wprov=sfla1

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Looking at the picture of the protesters and her grieving mother, it does seem quite possible.

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When she had one problem, then she got herself a fatal one.

Society is so accepting of this, nothing will be done. This is just a part of living the American Dream.

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