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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 22, 2015 at 10:31 pm
A few weeks ago a guy was shot and killed by NZ police around 15 km from where I live. He fired a shot at a McDonald's and then pointed a gun at the cops in a seeming "suicide by cop" situation.
It took a while for armed cops to respond and they spent quite a bit of time trying to talk him down.
Only a few NZ cops are actually armed.
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 23, 2015 at 12:48 am
Holy fuck! If that happened here in Australia, there'd be a Royal commission!
Was it racial? It looked white on white.
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 23, 2015 at 2:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2015 at 2:41 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
The "War on Crime" here in the USA has had effects on both sides of the badge. Guys know they aren't going to get fair process if they're caught, so they try to run or fight. The cops know that more people are fighting back, so if the guy has been "in the system" (and thus knows the unfairness), he may be willing to die in a hail of gunfire than go through the cruelty of the system again. In other words, if the guy had a felony history, the cops will treat him as a threat to them if he is in any way not-submissive, and it's easy to get into a shooting situation with that mentality. It's exacerbated if the races are different, because studies have shown a much higher likelihood of (even black officers, but especially white ones) reading minority facial and body-language clues in a way that is threatening to them.
I'm just sorry this tape is already "out there" before the officers had time to fabricate a story, so we could show (yet again) that the police will fabricate testimony/reports to suit their own needs with no regard for the truth. America needs to have that lesson hammered into their heads a lot more-- it is belief of jurors in the legitimacy of the guy sitting on the stand in his badged uniform that results in a great many false convictions (or guys who plead out, mid-trial, after they see the effect the cop's false testimony had on the jury).
Edit to Add: Looking again at the video, I'd bet the victim is Latino. The shooting is in San Antonio, Texas, where the guy would have been safer from the cops if he had instead been black.
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 23, 2015 at 8:35 am
Going from the names, I think they all may have been Hispanic
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 23, 2015 at 12:55 pm
The issue is not black v blue. The issue is cops v everyone who is not a cop. Their main function seems to be to protect, preserve and defend each other.... and fuck anyone else.
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 23, 2015 at 1:22 pm
I see no justification in that video for drawing a weapon, much less firing one.
This country's police forces need a goddamned enema.
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RE: Shot with hands in the air
September 24, 2015 at 2:29 am
Most of them need to be fired and replaced with human beings.
