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https://twitter.com/Stephon_Dingle/status/1656746478109442048

So literally just existing.
Reminder: if the cops can shoot you because you look like you might be armed you don't actually have a 2nd amendment right to bear arms.

Is that cop speak for black

One time, I saw this guy standing and holding a gun.
This guy was standing, you do the math.

They seem to have very poor training when it comes to identifying emotions and intentions. Which you'd think would be of the highest importance for the job.

Especially the very dumb ones that can't understand the climate that they themselves are heavily influencing.

I'm sure that the NRA will be enraged and protest overwhelmingly the idea of government employees using deadly force against a citizen with the justification that they were merely exercising their second amendment rights. Right?

pretty sure you can guess the skin color from that

and people will still say that we don't need police accountability

I have two arms, thus armed

Lost_All_Senses posted...

They seem to have very poor training when it comes to identifying emotions and intentions. Which you'd think would be of the highest importance for the job.

Especially the very dumb ones that can't understand the climate that they themselves are heavily influencing.

"Don't make sudden moves, don't look them in the eye, speak softly, act nonthreatening until you can make an escape."

The rules for dealing with cops and dealing with rabid dogs are oddly similar.

You missed this part

The teen then ran from officers with a weapon in his hand before a police officer, from the Western District Action Team (DAT), shot him in the upper body, police said."

"Worley said police recovered a "real weapon with an extended magazine."

Why should I believe the Baltimore Police Department?

Idk, but the statement they says they have a lot of bodycam footage from different officers and there seems to be a good amount of citizen witnesses. Time will tell

Noname12 posted...

You missed this part

The teen then ran from officers with a weapon in his hand before a police officer, from the Western District Action Team (DAT), shot him in the upper body, police said."

"Worley said police recovered a "real weapon with an extended magazine."

Unless there is video explicitly showing the cop's version of the narrative as fact I don't believe anything cops say.