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StarfishSaver

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4. Exactly!

Reply to cyclonefence (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 09:55 AM

Apr 2021

When the cop told him to stop and put up his hands and he did, he had an affirmative obligation to reassess the situation.

Claiming the cop shot him because he was in fear of his life because the kid had a gun before he put his hands up is BS. If he thought putting his hands up was a threatening act, the cop should never have told the child to do that.

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Cops have to recalibrate their response [View all] cyclonefence Apr 2021 OP

Well they successfully arrest around a million people a month EX500rider Apr 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author EX500rider Apr 2021 #2

I was 13 years old in 1962. If I'd been running around in the dark with a gun I would abqtommy Apr 2021 #3

Yes. Any child running around with a gun at night should expect to be shot StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #6

Oh dear! You're getting very close to a nerve. rgbecker Apr 2021 #9

Not if you're white and you have an AR-15, come on America let's get past this uponit7771 Apr 2021 #10

Exactly! StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #4

The system cannot be reformed. It's working as designed. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #5

So we should just give up and let things continue as is? Elessar Zappa Apr 2021 #11

No, I'd say abolish it all. Reform is what got us to this place. Reform is what got us George Floyd WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #12

Abolition will never happen, at least not in our lifetimes. Elessar Zappa Apr 2021 #13

Maybe. I'll keep working and advocating for it, regardless. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #14

And that's fine. Elessar Zappa Apr 2021 #15

32 hours of inservice training Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #18

this is the part people still didn't understand Voltaire2 Apr 2021 #16

Either the cop was not thinking very far ahead or he intended to use his gun from the start. rgbecker Apr 2021 #7

" shoot if fearful " - wrong Voltaire2 Apr 2021 #17

Someone's been asking that very question people don't like answering it straight up uponit7771 Apr 2021 #8