Surely they were worried for their safety
Posted Apr 18, 2019, 8:07 AM UTC
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Guy up here in my local area was a reporter. Cop shot him in the dark for setting up a tripod camera. Reporter apologized for being shot at. It was surreal.
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I remember that. Victim actually apologized to the cop for shooting him.
What the fuck.
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Didn’t the cop claim they were setting up a rocket launcher? I remember that case.
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Something like that. Because average citizens carry tripod mounted weapons.
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This is how they get "respect". Fuck earning it.
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Too right, mate.
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Imagine if the victim had been a fellow cop that was setting up equipment...
Or what if that had been a family member of the cop?
That cop was willing to shoot somebody without even knowing who the hell it was, which violates the basic rules of firearms training - KNOW YOUR TARGET!!!
He didn't even give the guy any warning or a chance to surrender!
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Add a picture of a dog labeled “Fuck Buddy”
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No object required, they just claim "he was reaching for his waistband."
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I was actually looking for this specific picture forever yesterday, it was the best summary I ever saw about this "they got a gun" mentality
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Does it still help you today or was i too late?
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Aw it's fine, I was trying to get a list of things that cops have shot people for assuming they had guns, I'm disappointed there's not more comprehensive lists of that happening.
Thanks though!
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Still don't think it should be legal for manufacturers to sell those black toy guns.
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Huh, the guy that shot Levar Jones was actually sentenced to prison. See? The system works!
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Without guns what would pigs use to justify the police state?
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In 2018 alone, 6160 were murdered by police officers in Brazil. But our Minister of Justice and Public Safety thinks police needs to face less consequences after killing. I'm not kidding.
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I was laughing because I thought it was a joke and there's no way cops would actually mistake that stuff and then I realised there's names of people who died from holding that stuff. What the actual fck is wrong with those cops. This is actually fcked and they probably didn't even get any jail time
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Add a picture of a boot labeled “midnight snack”
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Wait they actually shot a firefighter/EMT?
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ur a repost, delete urself
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In reality a photo of literally anything including a photo of a blank page signifying nothing would be interpreted as a gun by cops.
A cop would probably shoot himself if he stepped in front of a mirror and saw his own gun.
It’s abstract art, my interpretation of this is that it’s a gun