I'm reminded of those guys from South Park who'd shout "it's coming right for us" before shooting an animal.
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Looks like a GLOCK. There is only the safety on the trigger.
GasBandit
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Glock's motto is "the only safety your gun needs is between your ears."
figmentPez
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The taser has a safety. If she'd trained with her equipment, she should have noticed that the safety wasn't there before she attempted to fire.
Everything about this says to me that she's trigger happy and is far more familiar with her gun than her taser.
Daunte Wright Shooting: Fmr. Officer Kim Potter Released From Jail Hours After Arrest For Manslaughter Charges
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
minnesota.cbslocal.com
figmentPez
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There’s ‘no evidence’ Tasers reduce police use of firearms, new study shows
TLDR: Cops use tasers to replace other uses of force, and this has reduced the number of injuries that cops sustain. Firearm use has remained unchanged, and overall rate of death and injury to non-police has remained the same or risen.
TLDR: Cops use tasers to replace other uses of force, and this has reduced the number of injuries that cops sustain. Firearm use has remained unchanged, and overall rate of death and injury to non-police has remained the same or risen.
It's a big enough deal that discussion on the topic is even showing up in places you previously would not expect it to.
From the creator commentary attached to today's EGS:
--Patrick
From the creator commentary attached to today's EGS:
--Patrick
I am so worn out by all the hypocrisy.
Kid gets shot and killed before he can even react because he was playing in a park with a toy gun? "The kid should have complied. It's not the officers fault he looked threatening. The officer feared for his life. #BlueLivesMatter"
Woman storms the US Capital with a mob, chanting hang Mike Pence, before getting shot trying to leap through a barricaded window. "The officer needs to be arrested for murder. #SayHerName"
Kid gets shot and killed before he can even react because he was playing in a park with a toy gun? "The kid should have complied. It's not the officers fault he looked threatening. The officer feared for his life. #BlueLivesMatter"
Woman storms the US Capital with a mob, chanting hang Mike Pence, before getting shot trying to leap through a barricaded window. "The officer needs to be arrested for murder. #SayHerName"
Well, I mean, I doubt it, because agreeing with him he's to be a sign of old age, and you seem as chipper and young as the day we met.
Would he have said that, if the offending cop was a man?
figmentPez
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I just saw a video on Twitter of a cop talking about how you'd have to be incompetent to mistake your taser for a gun, and he said "no one hates bad cops more than good cops", something I've heard before, but this time it dawned on me. When cops talk about "bad cops", they mean someone who they consider incompetent at their job. Not morally bad, but someone who makes their job harder. Sometimes that's the same thing, but more often than not the "bad cops" that "good cops" hate are not the same as the "bad cops" that civilians are rightfully terrified of.
GasBandit
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There are no good cops. Only bad cops and silent cops. If a good cop speaks out about a bad cop, they get fired and aren't a cop anymore.
figmentPez
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I agree, but there are cops who consider themselves "good cops", and I think it's important to note the distinction in what is meant. "Good cops" generally mean that they're good at being police officers. They frame good/bad in terms of their perception of what police work is, and that is a major part of copaganda. In their use of the words "good cops" speak out against "bad cops" sometimes, because police officers call out officers who are bad at being the type of police that police want to be.
As a parallel, if a conman said "There's nothing a good scam artist hates more than a bad scam artist", you and I both know that someone ceases to be good the moment they start scamming innocent people out of their money. However, I'm sure there are criminals who think they're very "good" criminals, and are very upset when "bad" criminals bring attention to their crime and make it harder to get away whatever scam they're running. And if there were some sort of organized movement trying to make people think that criminals are useful to society, and that "good scam artists" exist and should be differentiated from "bad scam artists", they might just use such tricks of language to try to confuse people.
a little late on this, sorry, and *why* I’m defending Pat Robertson I’ll never know, but he did also say that Derek Chauvin should be put “under the jail”
He's on death's door. He's trying to put out a legacy at the last minute so his followers can go "But he said..." once he's gone.
figmentPez
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So.
If the jury declares Chauvin not guilty, there will certainly be rioting in the streets.
If the jury finds Chauvin guilty, there will probably still be rioting in the streets.
The only difference is that there'll be more shootings and less police intervention in the second scenario.
If the jury declares Chauvin not guilty, there will certainly be rioting in the streets.
If the jury finds Chauvin guilty, there will probably still be rioting in the streets.
The only difference is that there'll be more shootings and less police intervention in the second scenario.
figmentPez
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