The Trumphog has seen its shadow

[njames89]

Trump cells are cells that grow and divide at a rapid and unregulated pace. Although Trump cells are regularly created in the body, the disease known as Trump only occurs when rational cells (particularly critical thinking cells) fail to recognize and/or destroy them.

[Leshma]

Donal or Shillary? It's good thing I don't have to make that choice.

[dagu807]

i guess im #mentallyhill now

[Butan]

Donal or Shillary? It's good thing I don't have to make that choice.

Would be even better if you had no choice at all to make regarding anything anywhere!

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jk ofc, luv u

[Rhekimos]

“I thought it was a mosquito bite, and when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I’m thinking I just got shot,” Kinsey told WSVN-Channel 7. “And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ and his words to me were, ‘I don’t know.’”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/video-shows-police-shoot-unarmed-black-man-while-he-was-lying-down-with-his-hands-up-a7147651.html

[Butan]

Nice leg shot.


Waiting for the unedited videos to show up, for now all we see is the "before" and the "after", strange aight?
Betting on a full video showing some attenuating circumstances that doesnt fit the media attention 

[Rhekimos]

Apparently the firing was not caught on film. Maybe they also thought that there was no way it would escalate.

[Sir_Hans]

Apparently the firing was not caught on film. Maybe they also thought that there was no way it would escalate.

I'm guessing some other officers on the scene told the person filming to put the camera away or they would be arrested. Or something along those lines. People who film cops doing this sort of shit should be rewarded... encourage more people to film cops when they pull out their guns.

The officer apparently wasn't aiming for the guy with his hands up. He was aiming at the autistic person with the toy truck thinking that he was a threat to the guy with his hands up... Even after the guy with his hands up told officers multiple times all he had is a toy train and that there is no need for firearms.

It's getting to the point where the average gangbanger handles his firearm more responsibly than some of our law enforcement.

[Angantyr]

It's getting to the point where the average gangbanger handles his firearm more responsibly than some of our law enforcement.

From what I hear from US police veterans it varies by jurisdiction but in general US policemen do not have ample gun training due to budget limits, live firearms training is expensive and is often the first item to be cut.

[Butan]

Maybe they simply didnt believe the guy's explanations or misheard, or something that isnt on the footage explains? Gotta remember the cops were called because someone was threatening someone with a gun.

[Rhekimos]

Maybe they didn't. Maybe there is. Maybe the moon is made of pudding.

I won't say that extenuating circumstances cannot be found, but even if they are there, this is definitely a failure of police enforcement. It's not an isolated incident either, there's a trend of people being shot even when they comply with police orders. And that's not great.

[Butan]

Maybe they didn't. Maybe there is. Maybe the moon is made of pudding.

I think there is more probability that the police officer who shot had a reason (beside the laughing "I dont know" portrayed in the articles) than the moon being made of pudding. Equating both would be a lack of common sense.

It's not an isolated incident either, there's a trend of people being shot even when they comply with police orders. And that's not great.

The only trend I've seen so far is a political war on US police. The popular perception of a perpetual increase of unjustified excessive force is just that, a popular perception. US police has moved way past the seventies methods, adding new strict ones past 9/11, while the people is growing even more retardedly bigoted than before in their view of it.

[Rhekimos]

I think there is more probability that the police officer who shot had a reason (beside the laughing "I dont know" portrayed in the articles) than the moon being made of pudding. Equating both would be a lack of common sense.

Haha, that's a fine judgement of probability! Though, it's not the probability, it's the pertinence.

The only trend I've seen so far is a political war on US police. The popular perception of a perpetual increase of unjustified excessive force is just that, a popular perception. US police has moved way past the seventies methods, adding new strict ones past 9/11, while the people is growing even more retardedly bigoted than before in their view of it.

People don't want to be shot when they are doing everything the police tell them to. Asking for that is not waging a political war on the police.

If the police think that this is acceptable, then the initiative for correcting this state of affairs must come from outside the police force. By political action.

[Tydeus]

I think there is more probability that the police officer who shot had a reason (beside the laughing "I dont know" portrayed in the articles) than the moon being made of pudding. Equating both would be a lack of common sense.

Honestly, it's probably something as simple as that cop being scared shitless. Police are humans as well, we shouldn't forget how susceptible many of us can be to fear. He could have panicked at something stupid, even a thought, and fired as a knee-jerk reaction. This seems like the most likely case considering the baffling "I don't know" comment.

[Rhekimos]

Honestly, it's probably something as simple as that cop being scared shitless. Police are humans as well, we shouldn't forget how susceptible many of us can be to fear. He could have panicked at something stupid, even a thought, and fired as a knee-jerk reaction. This seems like the most likely case considering the baffling "I don't know" comment.

There's no doubt that there was fear. It's a tough job and anybody would be afraid in the situation. The problem is how often that fear is allowed to translate into completely nonviolent people being shot and killed.

That's also why the Dallas shooting was doubly tragic. Not only the loss of life, but it and actions like that make the police fear even more.