The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

Started by Syt, August 11, 2014, 04:09:04 AM

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Neil

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 16, 2014, 08:07:47 AM
Quote from: Neil on August 15, 2014, 08:55:07 PM
Which is funny, since the first time I remember seeing police with machine guns was actually in London.
When and where was that? Because I remember being really freaked out by that after the 7/7 bombings around many central London tube stops. It was weird.
Right in front of Number 10. :P
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: Sheilbh on August 16, 2014, 08:07:47 AM
In the UK they're generally a special armed response unit that are, from my understanding, pretty well trained. The only permanently armed force are the police for nuclear facilities.

Though my mum works in the nuclear industry and I went on a couple of site visits as a kid and I don't remember ever seeing them. So I don't know what they do or where they are :lol:

Indeed, that's the difference.  Not the "AR in every car" shit some departments on this side of the pond are moving towards.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on August 16, 2014, 09:43:40 AM
Indeed, that's the difference.  Not the "AR in every car" shit some departments on this side of the pond are moving towards.

Funny how the "AR in every car" mentality has filtered down to the Teabagger-2nd-Amendent types with absolutely no ramifications whatsoever.

You can carry an AR into a department store, you can bring your AR to a (black) presidential candidate's rally, you can even bring your AR with you so you and your friends can threaten Federal agents enforcing the law and openly challenge the government with armed resistance. 

Armed white people = Good
Unarmed black people = Dead

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

No shit.  I have the "pleasure" of living next to the epicenter of this bullshit, too. <_<

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 16, 2014, 10:59:45 AM
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on August 16, 2014, 09:43:40 AM
Indeed, that's the difference.  Not the "AR in every car" shit some departments on this side of the pond are moving towards.

Funny how the "AR in every car" mentality has filtered down to the Teabagger-2nd-Amendent types with absolutely no ramifications whatsoever.

You can carry an AR into a department store, you can bring your AR to a (black) presidential candidate's rally, you can even bring your AR with you so you and your friends can threaten Federal agents enforcing the law and openly challenge the government with armed resistance. 

Armed white people = Good
Unarmed black people = Dead
Armed white people = patriots
armed black people = dangerous

That's how they justify themselves.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on August 16, 2014, 05:26:53 PM
I want that M-113 command APC.

I don't think the lil' missus would appreciate all the donuts in the front yard.

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Ed Anger

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mongers

Quote from: Razgovory on August 16, 2014, 05:48:59 PM
What a fucking mess.

This thread, the situation in Missouri, the militarization of the police, all three or something else ?
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11B4V

Quote from: Ed Anger on August 16, 2014, 06:34:40 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 16, 2014, 06:11:58 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 16, 2014, 05:26:53 PM
I want that M-113 command APC.

That would be an M577 ......monkey boy



With your display of accurate knowledge of armored vehicles, you probably gave it to Raz's mom.  :P
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ed Anger

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Kleves

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 15, 2014, 07:14:07 PM
Giving two teens shit for walking in the street?  You fucking kidding me? 
You come across a couple of guys walking in the middle of the street and obstructing traffic and you just drive by? Why aren't you a cop anymore again?

Also, some people have been calling the incident at the convienance store "shoplifting." In Washington at least, shoplifting (theft in the third degree) is a misdemeanor. What this guy did, on the other hand, would be robbery in the 2nd degree - a class B felony (class A is for things like first degree murder, rape-rape, armed robbery and the like). Depending on the guy's record, he could be looking at serious prison time. I would assume the situation is similar in Missouri. So while this doesn't prove that the cop is telling the truth, it at least makes his story that the guy was violent and going for the cop's gun more plausible.
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