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It was a "rubber" bullet, but still.

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[-] [email protected] 214 points 5 days ago

It was a rubber coated metal bullet fired at close range.

You do not shoot someone unless you want them dead.

[-] [email protected] 134 points 5 days ago

Shit, as prior military we were taught you don't point your weapon at anything or anyone unless you're prepared to pull the trigger. The fact that all the others on that line had their weapons down, but this dude has his up the whole time, tells you all you need to know about the lack of training of that individual.

[-] [email protected] 120 points 5 days ago

Lack of training

On the contrary, these pigs are doing exactly what the people in power want them to.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pay no attention to LAPD, we purposely trained them wrong... as a joke.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

Pssst...

Its not just the LAPD

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

We put too much stock in training here, for things that should be obvious. How do we know you shouldn’t do that? I haven’t had any police training.

This is related to that “qualified immunity” bullshit. Somehow we let what could have been an appropriate thing turn into cops being above the law except in rare cases they were specifically trained for and there is existing case law. Bullshit. All too many of these look interesting headline cases start with “any sane person knows …” yet cops are above the law

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

None of the other cops stopped him from firing his weapon at the innocent lady

[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that was close enough to kill. She might have internal bleeding for all we know.

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