Wait until they try to charge the suspect for the damage to the police car. (Hopefully /s)
He needs to sue them for emotional trauma and pain and suffering.
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Isn’t this literally how the traditional telling of Chicken Little starts?
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Also, casual visitors to BoingBoing who aren’t active in the bbs aren’t likely to see the user posted thread, and BoingBoing won’t post it on Facebook and whatever other social media they’re using these days. So reboing doesn’t feel appropriate because it’s not the same thing. I like Yoink, though!
On the subject of the shooting…people who go from normal to full adrenalin driven fear response that quickly have no business being in law enforcement, or owning a firearm. That cop should be thanking whatever higher power he believes in that he didn’t kill anyone, because that would have been 2nd or 3rd degree murder, or maybe voluntary manslaughter if the DA was an asshole.
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Plus, they obviously couldn’t see the guy, so they were just shooting at the car. (Which by itself is insane, even if the guy inside was a shooter.) I wonder how many shot missed the car entirely.
Sure, but the way to do better would be by not shooting in the first place. The gun-fondler fantasy is that somehow they’d be better shots than cops, because… reasons. As if the lack of training would help, somehow, when the issue is that no one is particularly accurate under that kind of fear response.
There are certainly plenty of cases where suspects were charged for the damage - and deaths - caused by the cops, and detainees beaten by the cops charged with damage to police property because their blood got on the uniforms of the cops who were beating them. If the cop hadn’t resigned in disgrace here, I’d have seriously expected those charges…
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Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. There was no threat, I wouldn’t have fired in the first place.
I or anyone else not a cop is going to be held criminally liable if you unloaded into an occupied car when there was no threat.
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As everybody seems to be very thin skinned about criticism to USA, here it goes plain data, no oppinion, no nothing, just data.
List of states where as a 18 year old kid you can buy a shotgun or long gun, but you cannot buy a beer: Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington.
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Acorns are brown…
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I agree that on the surface, it’s ludicrous.
However, that guy was in full-blown panic attack, clearly in fear for his life. I feel sympathy for him.
So it’s one thing when police behave badly through overuse of violence, cruelty, or sheer cowardice. But in this case, we have an individual who - admittedly doesn’t belong on a police force, or in any position of authority, let alone handling lethal weapons - is sorely in need of some help for emotional trauma.
My criticism would be of the system, the specific police organization, and the individuals who assessed him as fit for duty in the first place.
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See, you didn’t just post the data, though. I have no idea who you mean by “everybody” but I’m wide open to criticism about the US. I think your facts speak for themselves better if you leave out the little preface of taking a jab at the community.
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Everybody, huh? Way to be needlessly hyperbolic.
I live here, and I criticize my country and it’s leaders all the time.
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Yes, truly TERRIBLE headline writing. Going for the joke, when the ACTUAL headline should have been “Florida cop confuses acorn falling on his car with a gunshot and attempts to murder an unarmed black man, handcuffed in the back of his police car”.
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Here? What?
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You know what they say about ASSumptions.
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Looks like guy has resigned
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It’s “nuts,” because “triggered by acorns”?
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Although even if there had been a threat, the cops couldn’t see him and shooting still wasn’t a reasonable way to deal with the situation (as demonstrated by the fact that they failed to hit the guy trapped in the car).
Well, it is a true nut.
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On a different note, I’m pleasantly surprised and slightly confused that they released the body cam footage of this incident at all. They should, of course. They always should. But they so often don’t so I’m wondering, why this?
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Is that a “repost” or a “riposte”?
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