Gill Sans University
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Wait… what? No! Georgia State! 
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Greatest Southern University? That should be an easy sell.
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I think we got some good things going here. We got good kids, good programs… bigger than all the other flag ship unis.
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Related:
In this thread, all under the guise of “reasonable” solutions, we have people discussing Tasers. Pepper spray. Batons. MMA takedowns. Shooting people in the fucking leg.
A non-aggressive, obviously distressed and confused person was very slowly walking forwards while holding a partially-open multitool. Nobody was being attacked.
There was not the tiniest hint of justification here to do anything other than talk to Scout while waiting for a psychiatric crisis response team to get there. That is what should happen in a normal, civilised society.
The way that many of you perceive and think about this constant police violence is not normal. It’s not your fault, but you need to realise that it isn’t right. You’ve been living inside this for too long, and it’s messed with your heads a bit.
I realise that the previous paragraph is easy to take offence to. If I could phrase it more delicately, I would. But please think about it.
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It seems pretty likely that the constant repetition of how dangerous their job is and that “cops put their lives on the line” is a contributing factor to the apparent squirrreliness.
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Loggers are approximately 10 times as likely to die on the job as cops, but we don’t cut any slack to people who go on chainsaw murder sprees just because “they put their lives on the line every day.”
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I wasn’t cutting slack, just contributing my theory to @JBird’s
But for your analogy to be work, it would be the trees who are out to get the loggers and are in turn the victims of chainsaw murder sprees.
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Naw, man. The non-lethals are for fun AFTER the perp is cuffed.
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I’ll take my chances with the shooter, thanks.
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Surprise, the shooter will be an officer.
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What about a warning shot ? or a lower leg wound. Also there were two police men who could have overpowered the
person with out risk of injury.
See above. Warning shots and limb wounding have been ruled out in cases like this as those tactics defy the laws of physics and/or endanger millions of innocent people.
Police are trained to hit center of mass. Going for shots to wound as likely more risky because they can miss and hit someone else, they can miss and have the perp rush them, they can even hit to wound and hit a vital artery and still kill the person, and even aiming for center mass in the heat of the moment it can still be easy to miss some shots. Generally the rule of thumb is, never point your gun at someone unless you want them dead.
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Ah, yes. Good point. “Dear U.S. PDs: have you considered maiming rather than killing disoriented citizens? --sincerely, concerned (but highly oriented!) native-bred-and-born American”.
Keep trying to bump up that kettle temperature.
sincerely,
A fellow frog
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The only valid reason they would ever draw their firearms at all EVER is to defend themselves or someone else in a life threatening situation.
That they drew their weapons when they were safe is completely unacceptable. Warning shots are bullshit. If you’ve taken your gun out and don’t intend to kill someone and aren’t in mortal peril, then you’ve made a terrible mistake.
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https://twitter.com/afainatl/status/911411008715010048
http://www.11alive.com/amp/news/local/mercer-investigating-posts-made-in-officers-name/477941112
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