The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

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

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DGuller

Quote from: Valmy on February 18, 2024, 09:53:27 PMBut the statistics only have police offices as the 19th most dangerous job in the country behind jobs like truck drivers and most manual laborers. It is just not the case that the common citizens, or even the criminal population, are out to get police officers.
To be fair, these kinds of arguments are quite flawed.  It's like saying that no airplane has been hijacked in over 20 years, therefore airport security and cockpits doors are a massive over-reaction.  Sometimes the danger you're protecting against appears overblown precisely because you're very good at protecting against said danger.

Maybe being a police officer isn't more dangerous than it is precisely because they shoot first, and call in an artillery barrage, and ask questions later.  If they allowed the perps to get off the first shot, maybe it would be a considerably more dangerous job than it is.

Tonitrus

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Recent incident causing a fairly big stir in the USAF community:

Police respond to a possible domestic incident at an apartment complex, go to the suspected apartment (later found to be likely the wrong one), knock on door...Airman answers/opens door with gun in hand (pointed at the ground) and almost immediately shot several times.

Bodycam footage here (not really graphic per se, but the shooting is clearly shown):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3D9im0csDM

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viper37

I don't know if the link will be visible outside of Quebec...

A bunch of teens gathered in Quebec city, there was underage drinking (not much of a problem), bu then there started being fights and general disorderly conduct so the police intervened and proceeded to some arrest.

This is what pass as police brutality in Quebec:




One of the kid's mother is complaining in medias that her son was "violently" arrested by 4 officers after blocking a car with his scooter and hitting the car window to challenge the cop.

The entire text is here, with the videos:
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2024/05/11/mineur-arrete-a-charlesbourg--les-policiers-sont-alles-trop-loin-selon-la-mere
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