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vague-humanoid · 7 months
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"I got flagged down. I guess there's a bunch of kids jumping around on the edge of the [inaudible] parking garage. Ellsworth and Fenton," Bomba told the dispatcher. He sounded calm. 
Fellow officers reached him in three to four minutes and found him suffering from a gunshot wound, acting Police Chief Marcus Jones said. 
Bomba's own gun was found at the scene. He was wearing his body camera, but it was not recording at the time.
Police continue to investigate the death.
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ramsesja · 5 months
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johncory9mm · 9 months
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My Advice for France
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If any of the rioters arrested during the protests are in France illegally, they should be immediately deported.
Those individuals can go back and burn and loot their own country.
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A family is searching for answers after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot by Winnipeg police on Sunday. On New Year’s Eve, Winnipeg police were called to an apartment building on University Crescent for a report of an armed man who was acting erratically. Officers say they were confronted by an armed man at the suite and that during the encounter, an officer shot him. The man was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died of his injuries. Jean-René Dominique Kwilu, a lawyer for the family, has identified the man as 19-year-old Afolabi Stephen Opaso, an international student from Nigeria who was studying economics at the University of Manitoba.
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Link: How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing? (skeptic.com)
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FYI, 2019 survey.
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Difference between 2019 and 2021:
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Note: "unarmed" does not mean "not dangerous."
https://boghossian.substack.com/p/wokeness-public-safety-blm-and-antifa
According to the Washington Post’s comprehensive database of police killings, police shot and killed 54 unarmed people in 2019, 26 were listed as white, 12 black, 11 Hispanic, and 5 “other.”
It’s also important to note that the majority of the twelve shot were actively trying to hurt or kill the officer. For example, in at least two of the twelve cases involving black men, the perpetrators were killed while trying to run over an officer with a car. In another, an individual took and used the officer’s taser on him. In another, a female officer was being physically beaten by a suspect when she fired. All those cases were classified as “unarmed.”
“Unarmed” never means “not deadly.” There is always a gun involved—the officer’s. In many encounters, the suspect is fighting to get ahold of it. In the Ferguson case, it was claimed that Michael Brown had his hands up when Officer Darren Wilson shot him, in cold blood, in the middle of the street. Upon investigation, the forensic evidence as well as a half-dozen black witnesses confirmed Officer Wilson’s account. Michael Brown tried to take Officer Wilson’s gun and was charging at him when shot. The “Hands up, don’t shoot!’ slogan was a lie.
Actual unarmed, unjustified killings are extremely rare; in the low single digits.
https://boghossian.substack.com/p/race-homicide-and-data
In reality, when you remove those cases from the data, you're left with one or two. One or two cases every year, out of a country of 350 million some odd people. One or two cases. That's what Black Lives Matter is focusing on. They have things to say about just about everything except the 7000 to 8000 homicides per year of young black Americans.
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 5 months
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"CONSTABLE DISMISSED," Ottawa Citizen. October 15, 1913. Page 1. ---- Use of Revolver Not Justified by Circumstances. ---- Arthur Ainscough, the police constable who fired three shots at a man in front of Wah Lee's laundry, corner of St. Patrick street and King Edward avenue, about 2.30 last Monday morning, was today dismissed from force. His use of the weapon was reckless, since he says that the man had not entered the laundry. There was not sufficient provocation to warrant the use of a revolver. Ainscough came here three weeks ago from New Bedford, Mass., where he was employed for some time on the police force. He will leave for New Bedford today. He has lost his taste for police experience and intends to try some other line. The man at whom the constable fired got away and the police have not any good clue as to who he is.
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wren-der · 1 year
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Guns in the classroom.... Thought they said it made kids safe? Who could have predicted things like this would happen?
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tearsofrefugees · 2 years
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Lyoya, 26, was a Congolese refugee and came to America in 2014 to escape violence. On April 4, he was sitting in his car, parked by a curb, when the officer approached him and asked for identification.
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rapeculturerealities · 11 months
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Banko Brown: Protesters Decry DA’s Decision On Guard's Charges
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins released video footage Monday of the fatal shooting of Banko Brown, reaffirming her decision not to charge the security guard who shot Brown at a Downtown San Francisco Walgreens in late April.
Community members gathered Monday afternoon at the Walgreens at Market and Fourth streets where Brown was fatally shot, rallying against Jenkins’ decision to not file charges.
Activists, politicians and others who reviewed footage of Brown’s death say the video proves Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, the private security guard, did not act in self-defense—contrary to the district attorney’s decision.
Protesters demanded that DA Jenkins press charges against Anthony and that security guards should not legally be allowed to carry firearms.
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When no one was actively in danger, the killing shot came to the back of his head, and the whole reason cops were there was because of the senseless prohibition of arbitrary substances, how can anyone deem this justified?
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They were too cowardly to confront a mass shooter but "brave" enough to shoot the hero who stopped it in the back. Despite claiming it was justified cops have refused to release the footage, now the family has filed a lawsuit.
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ramsesja · 6 months
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Evidence shows that better training doesn't lead to better officers. It is a persistent myth and narrative that prevents real, necessary reform when it comes to policing and public safety.
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americanredragger · 8 months
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Here's a fun take that ought to get some lively opinions and that I will almost certainly regret expressing at some point in the near and VERY predictable future:
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD REGULAR PATROL COPS BE ARMED WITH LETHAL WEAPONRY SUCH AS FIREARMS. IT IS NOT THEIR DUTY TO BE JUDGE, JURY, OR EXECUTIONER.
Those jobs belong to, believe it or not, Judges, Juries, and Executioners.
Now, if Police have the guts to actually respond in a timely and out-of-characterly professional manner to a situation where a threat to the life of the officers involved can be confidently anticipated? Fine, bring some pew pew sticks for your own defense.
But regular beat cops and patrol officers should never be so armed, because their duty is to capture and detain criminals for trial — aka, the part with the judge and the jury and which may or may not lead to involving an executioner at a later date, depending on a large and semi-fascinating variety of factors — and that literally only works if the person being detained is, you know, still alive.
Moving the burden from being able to simply claim "well I feared for my life", a passive and emotive statement that cannot reasonably be disproven empirically, to having to demonstrate how they anticipated their life WOULD be in danger, a process grounded in documentable reasoning and evidence, would save SO MANY LIVES.
Does this put police potentially in danger if they respond to a situation that turns out to be beyond the scope of their tools at hand?
Yes.
But by becoming a Police Officer, you acknowledged and accepted that risk. You've signed that waiver. Risk is part of the game if you wanna wear that badge. That involves accepting that you may die in the line of service. It is a thing that happens, and you were well warned and took the job anyway.
Now, are the Police the truncheon held by the arm of the Capitalist Class? Absolutely. Do they need to be either massively recontextualized for the good of society via significant partial defunding (and diverting those funds to other agencies that are more specialized and better qualified for their tasks, such as EMTs, Firemen, mental health professionals, and social workers), or outright abolished and something else put in their place to ensure and protect the common good? Oh fuck yes. Will taking guns from everyday cops completely eliminate killings resulting from police brutality? Hell no.
But it's a start.
It's doable.
And it reduces harm to communities all over this struggling country immediately.
You want a job with guns? Join the National Guard.
Be part of the "Well Regulated Militia" that is "necessary to the security of a free State" according to the Second Amendment.
Don't become a Cop.
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A Toronto man who was shot multiple times by a police officer while he was walking his dog last month says more could have been done to de-escalate the situation that almost left him dead.
“They pointed their guns at me right away. They shouted one command and immediately I felt a shot and right after I just heard multiple shots going off,” Devon Fowlin told reporters at a news conference organized by his lawyer Wednesday.
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BLM collected millions of dollars and did over $2b of rioting in the name of that tiny little item right at the very top. But nothing below that, certainly not the last two items, and least of all the second-last one.
Because black lives matter, apparently.
It's not racist to wonder why BLM exists but not Black Drownings Matter when it happens 10 times as often.
Hint: you've been had.
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