• @krayj
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    -459 months ago

    This might be an insightful post if it weren’t so hilariously poorly timed.

    From JUST a couple weeks ago: McDonald’s employee to face murder charge after shooting NC woman inside restaurant, police say

    vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pkY5Ytr5c

      • TheOneCurly
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        559 months ago

        Should just transfer them to another one in the next town over after a paid 3 month leave.

      • @krayj
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        -389 months ago

        Sure, and that’s great…but the topic is ‘de-escalation skills’. I’m just pointing out the obvious irony.

        • @[email protected]
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          249 months ago

          Low reading comprehension skills, eh? The point is not the de-escalation skills. The point is that cops don’t have to face consequences for murder.

          • @krayj
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            -399 months ago

            Low reading comprehension skills, eh?

            …says the person who lacks the skills needed to read the title of the original post.

            • @[email protected]
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              309 months ago

              In the post, someone replied that they get fired if they don’t deescalate properly. It sounds like the person you referenced did get fired. So i think that does add up?

    • @[email protected]
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      359 months ago

      Guess what? That single incident is in no way indicative of an overall tendency. Hundreds if not thousands of cops needlessly shooting people every single year, though? THAT’S a significant data point!

          • @[email protected]
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            -79 months ago

            Ma’am that’s not a source. I’m not saying I disagree, I just want to see the actual numbers

            • @[email protected]
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              29 months ago

              First of all I’m a mister, not a ma’am. Second of all, it’s a place to start and I never claimed otherwise.

              Besides, accurate data is notoriously difficult to come by for many reasons including the fact that the main people who keep track of it are the same ones who conspire to cover as much of it up as possible.

              The article says roughly 3 unjustified homicides a day, but with all the cop cover ups it could be several times that, so “hundreds if not thousands every year” is about as accurate an estimation of the number of needless shootings as you’re likely to get from anywhere 🤷

            • @[email protected]
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              -29 months ago

              There was a Facebook post somewhere with the numbers and a tik tok of someone explaining why they are correct. These sources will make sense after you have enough hours of scrolling in the lemmy instance already provided to you.

              With enough practice you will understand that we should just downvote and shun people who ask for sources. It saves so much time and helps to avoid understanding the world as it is.

        • deaf_fish
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          9 months ago

          Someone needs to tell people that it is ok not to have a source. You don’t need to downvote the person who asked for it if you don’t have it.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        Believe it or not, shooting citizens unnecessarily is also against most police department policies.

        • deaf_fish
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          29 months ago

          Yes, both have the same policy, but one group of people shoot citizens unnecessarily way more than the other. I wonder why that is?

      • @krayj
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        9 months ago

        So you are saying that their de-escalation skills were not better than police? I would expect it to be against company policy to shoot a customer, but we’re talking about de-escalation skills here.

        • @[email protected]
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          119 months ago

          I’d say that the one case you have of a fast food worker shooting someone is not the same as the plethora of cases of police shooting people. More importantly though and the true subtext of this post, is that this employee got fired, arrested, and charged with murder instead of a receiving a paid vacation and a transfer to a new McDonalds two counties over.

    • @[email protected]
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      249 months ago

      I wonder how many cops have shot and killed people in that time period?

      I wonder if there are more McDonald’s employees than cops?

      • @krayj
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        -249 months ago

        I’m just pointing out the hilariously poor timing.

        If you are going to claim that McDonald’s employees have superior de-escalation skills to police…the absolute worst time to try and make that claim is fresh after a McDonalds employee murders a customer and the national news is still talking about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        2015 averaged four officer-involved homicides a day (an approximation based on those tracked by volunteers though news, incident reports and obituaries). That number has only increased since then. 2020 is regarded as an unusual year.

        Also we learned that precinct coroners routinely cover for their brethren in blue, which may conceal considerably more slayings.