Poll of the Day > US police shoot 13 year old autistic boy whose mom called for help

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Mead posted...

the lengths bootlickers will go to never place any blame whatsoever on a police officer

Right? Thats why I tagged buddy. He thought he had something smart to say in another thread about calling police so figured Id show him this one.

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Zareth posted...

Sunny probably thinks autism is caused by an imbalance of chakras or some shit.

Well, he is an anti-vaxxer.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Well, he is an anti-vaxxer.

Oh thank God. I thought he might be entirely lost.

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zebatov posted...

Oh thank God. I thought he might be entirely lost.

You both are.
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Revelation34 posted...

You both are.

Lol good one Revy!

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I remember reading a news article that reported the story about an anti-drug police force doing a no-knock raid in a suburban house. They threw a flashbang that landed in a baby's crib, killing the baby sleeping in it. There were no drugs in the house.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Should have been a social worker. Defunding the Police and redistributing much of their work to people better suited to it would have prevented this.

In my province, the police is actually trained to handle such situations. They can use appeasement techniques. The protocol in a case like this one is to first send the police to help deescalate the situation or, in the advent they fail at doing so, physically subdue the child. Weapons must not be used, period. Once that's done, they send a social worker to handle it, while the police remains to protect said worker and make sure the environment is safe. But this is the US, the police is full of trigger happy individuals on a power trip.

Monopoman posted...

What are you talking about that intensive training police get in dealing with mentally ill people proves they are the best for handling this problem. I think we should give the police more stuff to do..

Package Delivery
Restaurant Server
Paramedic
etc..

Let's just make the police do every damn job.
(warning the above comment may have sarcasm)

I agree, they can deliver packages by blowing up the frontdoor with C4, use torture when interrogating customers about the kind of meal they want, attempt to revive someone under cardiac arrest with bullets, etc.

Jen0125 posted...

They might get scared of the dog barking behind the fence

Especially if it's a chihuahua. It's a fact that the dog breed most likely to bite you is the chihuahua.

zebatov posted...

Chalk another one up on the why-not-to-call-police side of the argument.

The sad thing is that is what you're supposed to do. If the system was working correctly, the police wouldn't be making things worse. I understand you tagged me due to the argument we had concerning Kyle's vigilantism. The fact that the police can't be trusted doesn't change the fact that handling things yourself is against the law. When you have the duty to retreat and it's safe to do so, you must do it. Whether or not the police can be trusted is irrelevant, the law doesn't allow vigilantism. If you don't want to involve the police because you don't trust them, then just do nothing.

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

the dude in this article gets the problem in general with police, and not just with dogs being shot:

"Brian Kicommons, a dog behavioral counselor, says an officers inclination to take command and take control causes them to unnecessarily antagonize dogs. He said officers need to realize they are there to neutralize, not control. He pointed to too much policing today, and that officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. Its so important, he says, that an officers subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force. If they have enough money to militarize the police with Humvees, they have enough money to train them not to kill family members. And pets are family members."

fuck the police

It's amazing that bar bouncers understand their job better. Bar bouncers main job is to end fights and to try to do it with as little fighting as possible. They have people threaten them or punch them from time to time but you rarely see in the news, "Another man died by the hands of a bar bouncer." They also deal with rough cases of a guy drunk out of his mind and not even thinking straight very often.

Now sometimes it does get a bit violent but I had a cousin who was a bouncer and he rarely if ever had to resort to actually fighting someone.

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