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.
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’.
He just fucking aims and pulls the trigger. What the fuck is going on in america.
I don’t think he even aimed. He hit a passing car. He just pulled his gun and fired.
I didn’t say he aimed well. Really shows how well those assholes are trained. He couldn’t even hit accurately at 20m.
Wait a minute. Just having a gun isn’t a reason to shoot someone in Maryland, is it? They might have a license. So the policeman would be guilty of manslaughter either way.
Well, he was indicted, so that’s a start. Just have to wait and see if he’s convicted.
And he’s a sergeant too. He should have his career ruined because of this.
Mhmm best we can do is slap on the wrist and a multi decade intimidation campaign against the victims and anyone who supports them.
The article did say that he is currently suspended without pay, so at least they’ve got that bit straight in this case.
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?
