On Sept. 12 at 8 a.m., came across a stopped vehicle with hazards on the left shoulder near John Hanson Highway and got out of his cruiser to help.
“Are you here to help her?” Sgt. Warrington asks the man.
“No, she’s taking me to the hospital,” he responded.
Moments later, he fires a single shot at the passenger who says he was getting a hat blown onto the road.
“Oh my God, what did you do? What did you do?” the driver screams out.
“He had a gun!” Warrington says.
“No, I don’t have a gun!” the man shouts, lying on the roadway.
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Officials want to be clear the man who is shot was never charged, never arrested and has fully cooperated with the investigation.
This is apparently something that needs to be said when talking about shooting unarmed people.
This is exactly why training the police as warriors instead of as civil servants is so insidious and deadly.
They aren’t “training” them. Certainly not as well as actual soldiers. But they are arming them with more and more military gear. If you were a high-school bully who never grew up or a racist who wanted to harass and maybe even kill a black person, what job would you get?
They are being trained.
To escalate, that’s why they “need” all that military kit.
They hire ex-cop contractor buddies and give them gobs of municipal money to do a ‘training’ session where they brainwash the entire force into thinking that they’re at war with an insurgency as dangerous to them as alqueda was to the military that so many of them came from.
This is one of the reasons they’re so trigger happy. Right from academy they’re taught this, and any recruits who question it get dropped. One of the more famous programs is literally called ‘Kill-ology’.
At this point we’re going to start giving the same advice for interacting with police as with soldiers in a war zone. Basically do whatever they say. And if it’s contradictory then sit on your heels and put your hands up. Make yourself as un-aggressive as possible so the scared, sleep deprived, teenager with a machine gun man child with a badge and a gun can’t possibly see you as a threat.
Lol, no. Remember when they shot the aid worker who was spread-eagle on the ground next to their charge? And then the aid worker asked the cop “why did you shoot me?” Cops response? “I dunno.”
They’ll still just shoot you for not following orders. Especially if you’re not white.
Unfortunately we can’t make it zero chance. You could always just sit there on the curb, oblivious, and get shot.
Idk what this dude coulda done different except not be there, he just was walking and the cop draws on him and fires
I kind of have the opposite advice for interacting with soldiers in a warzone.
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They are just always on-edge and terrified for their life no matter what the situation is. What does their training do to them… there was absolutely no reason to see this as some sort of well-disguised trap intended to kill the police officer, so why did his mind go there?
How many times in 2020 did I see a cop or cop apologist say “Only .000000000231% of interactions go bad why are those what you focus on??” (I’m totally making that number up, and they probably were too.)
How about this cops? Only a vanishingly small percentage of the rest of us actually intend to do you harm, so why do you treat everyone that way?
