Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday.
Five officers from a tactical unit who were in an unmarked police vehicle surrounded an SUV last month driven by Dexter Reed, allegedly for failing to wear a seatbelt. Video shows the 26-year-old Black man briefly lowering a window and then raising it and refusing to exit the vehicle as more officers arrived, yelled commands and drew weapons.
No mention in the Lemmy summary of this post of who shot first?
it was the acorn.
Its never excusable for police to shoot.
A police life is worth less than anything else.
I do agree they chose to put their lives on the line so should accept the risk before putting other civilians at risk. I also think police should generally be unarmed, because it’d force them to de-escalate and not give them the ability to easily end lives.
That said, never? There are times where it’s OK. Even the most civilian friendly police forces in the world still occasionally see the need to shoot someone. There are people who just need to be stopped before they cause more harm.
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Sometimes people hurt others besides cops…
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What are you talking about? It’s significantly more likely that someone will cause harm to a non-cop than a cop, or that harm will be caused by a non-cop than a cop as well. The way policing works is totally fucked, but there is absolutely a need for something. 99.9% of the time it should be de-escalation, but to pretend like that 0.1% is nothing is so ignorant. You can hate cops and be reasonable.
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Sure, but what about when no cops are involved, which is usually the case?
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I hope I take at least two with me, and bring some measure of peace and justice to the world.
I’m not really expecting to; kind of a terrible shot, but dreams are dreams.
No mention in your bio that you’re unable to read the article before commenting?
I did actually, which is why I came back and made my comment on this post.
I’m purposely criticizing the person who made the summary of the post, as it tends to indicate trying to direct a conversation in a certain way, without expressing all the summary facts.
Why would surrounding a vehicle with gunmen who get out of an unmarked vehicle be a proper response to not wearing a seatbelt?
Imagine if we just sent the ticket to their house and didn’t hold up traffic with the dash/rear cameras like a speed trap would do. No officers in danger, no people feeling in danger.
Unmarked vehicles in themselves are questionable. 5 officers in 1 vehicle… strange
Woah there. The full charge was “not wearing a seatbelt while black”.
This is standard procedure for such crimes.
Man, they’re really out there enforcing the laws against DWB, huh?
I never said any of that.
All I stated was that the summary was crafted in such a way as to not present all the available facts to the readers.
My understanding is a police officer was shot first, by the driver. None of that was mentioned in the summary.
Do I believe the police forces throughout the nation have a huge problem that need fixing? Absofuckinglutely.
But we’re not going to fix things if we don’t look at the whole truth of a situation, and only the partial truth.
I never said you said those things, I said them. That’s why I used the term imagine. Sorry if you thought I was trying to pick at your words.
I know. Your response wasn’t matching what I said. Thanks for clarifying.
It’s alright, we are getting down voted both for having a civil conversation with possible opposing views (haven’t discussed) lol
That’s what a summary is tho … simply a portion of the whole.
The complete story is in the article. Therefore read it first before commenting.
It’s supposed to summarize the whole, not just one part that makes one side look favorable.
I did. This is a second time I’m telling you that now.
No, it is not simply a portion of the whole.
I sincerely hope you are an AI or a child because you’re demonstrating an incredible lack of awareness here.
Edit: imagine disputing this, Jesus christ you people are dumb.
Nah, now I just think that people advocating for police reform are fact manipulators and don’t tell the whole story.
You were never going to care in the first place, so what you apparently only just now think does not matter.
Right wingers love this tactic, “Oh Id totally care about X issue but [some minor nitpick] now i wont”