You’d be surprised at how little damage that type of round will do to a soft target if it doesn’t hit the brain/heart etc. Obviously, he had to make sure the guy was dead so he couldn’t give contradictory testimony - that’s just Basic American Policing 101.
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That setup’s already been tried.
The result invariably goes like this:
“Officer Smith, you discharged your weapon at least 12 times into the back of a young, unarmed, black kid who was fleeing. But your body cam didn’t transmit to your car.”
“Yeah, that’s right”
“The antenna had been snapped off your car.”
“Really? I didn’t notice… Must’ve been vandalized.”
“I guess so, Officer. Don’t let it happen again *Winks and nudges*”
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Ideally, I’d like to see the payment gouged out of their flesh, just to make things fair to the people that they murder.
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I may be engaging in a little stereotyping here; but does Officer Tacticool(below, the officer involved) look like the kind of guy who picks a tool because it’s the right one for the job, or because it’s the one that makes him totally way more badass, bro?
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Hah. While I caution the use of stereotypes a lot, some times they are spot on. Reminds me of this asshole who gave me a ticket because I turned right on red - not seeing the stupid “no right on red” sign until I was already through the turn. He worked for one of those small towns engulfed into the KC Metro area and was all decked out in a tac vest. I mean the town is so small I don’t think you could get up to speed to speed through it. This ticket was the most excitement he could ever hope to have. Fucker didn’t even be cool and just give me a warning when I said I was going to the CANCER CENTER we were parked in front of (I’m full of tumors, but so far no cancer - but he didn’t know that.)
He looks really young, did the article say his age?
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I don’t think that the BBC article(which provided that image) did; but he is elsewhere reported as 25 years old. Also, the “Now you’re fucked!” message was apparently etched into his service AR-15, a fact about which the department is, belatedly, displeased.
That sounds like it would require some…dangerously innovative…8th amendment jurisprudence, so I’d be leery of it; but I’d have no problem with a more straightforward execution.
I realize that this probably makes me a weird ‘neither one group nor the other’ outlier; but I’m actually totally fine with capital punishment in concept; I just think that our application of it is more or less fractally fucked up, in every detail and at every scale; but in principle the notion of killing people for certain crimes seems just fine; and probably even more humane than jailing them; and more possible than rehabilitating them. I say ‘neither one group nor the other’ because the anti-death-penalty people would obviously find my willingness to consider the practice ethically problematic; but the pro-death-penalty people would probably be…less than pleased…when I demanded substantial improvements in the public defense system and a deemphasis on the poor, mentally subnormal, and ethnically undesirable; in favor of more executions for white collar crime, corruption, obstruction/perversion of justice, and other ‘respectable’ crimes.
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I was mostly fantasizing here.
In my own ethical framework, the only time I can justify the death penalty, is if we know with an extreme level of confidence that the perp is going to kill people if we don’t kill them first.
They’d have to be some kind of Joker-esque mastermind who just can’t be kept in prison, because they keep breaking out. It’d be a measure protecting everyone at the perp’s expense.
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It is also deeply plausible that an officer who so feared for his life that he had to act as this one did didn’t consider a cunning strategy like "have the front desk call the room in question in order to establish dialog and instruct the guy to come out with his hands up; all while being far enough away from the room that even a razor-edged specops badass, rather than an inebriated Walmart bird-control guy, couldn’t have posed any officer safety risk.
If you want to justify your immediate use of force on the basis that you are “zOMG so scared!!!”, try acting like someone who is dealing with a real potential threat. Anyone seriously think that he would have just shoved open the door and hoped for the best if he seriously expected the guy to be crouched behind whatever offered the most favorable position and ready to put 3 to center mass on whoever opened the door?
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Actually you could just cut the video into short segments, and have the remote device send back MD5 hashes of each segment to a machine that holds a private key. Then sign the hashes and publish them to a blockchain or, hell, a printed log in the DA’s office would probably do.
I’ve thought about how something like this might work a lot. The technology is pretty doable. Politically… I don’t know.
Edited: Oh, you said no to “that it can’t be done.” Yeah, I agree!
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$10 says he vapes.
(Yes, I’m feeling a little mean today. Sorry.)
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…An e-cig.
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How could he ever pass the Psych test? Since I see the rose tattoo, I am left wondering if it’s a Guns and Roses thing.
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