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context: Actually reads like an Onion article wtf >
  
  It gets worse when you look at the LA times article linked in this one … 
  
  “Yatoya Toy, Lowe’s older sister, identified the man running from police as her brother. She said that his legs had been amputated after an altercation with law enforcement in Texas, and that the family also has questions about that incident.” >
  
  He lost his legs from cops in Texas only to later be murdered by cops in California? >
  
  No wonder he was scared(well, more than the normal amount of scared one would be when dealing with police). >
  
  It kinda seems like police departments spend a little too much time drilling into recruits' heads the circumstances when they're "allowed" to shoot someone, and not enough focus on when they "must" shoot someone. "Knife = fire at will" seems to be the only calculation that was done here. Like that dude in the Home Depot lot a year or two ago. >
  
  There's never any repercussions so why would they. >
  
  Well for a normal person it'd be the natural desire to not shoot another human. But it really does feel like some of these people are just waiting for the opportunity. >
  
  There absolutely guys who become police just for the chance to "legally" shot/kill someone. I knew some guys who signed up for the military just for that reason too. But those guys either ended up being total looser or cops after serving. >
  
  Total losers OR cops? Idk these things seem one in the same to me >
  
  Underrated comment >
  
  
  The Huntington Park department does not use body cameras.
  
  Case closed - the cops were justified in shooting him because the cops say they were justified in shooting him. >
  
  A bystander caught it on video for the NY Post.
  How many helpless people are the California cops going to murder before the state and city governments reign in their rapid dogs? This is far from the first time this has happened. It's not rocket science: require body cams that the rabid dogs cannot circumvent, and take control of investigations of officer shootings away from the police departments. These guys know that it won't be their BFFs investigating their murders anymore, maybe they'll think before shooting. >
  
  We got more cameras on people making McDoubles. >
  
  And they get fired for less >
  
  Between cops and Mcdonalds workers, it's the mcdonalds workers who need the union and the cops who really don't need one >
  
  Police could use some training from McDonalds workers on how to de-escalate situations. >
  
  The academy clearly borrows from the Waffle House manual of conflict resolution. >
  
  Waffle House warfare >
  
  Oh I was wondering what the new Call of Duty was gonna be called >
  
  I’d play it. >
  
  
  The department claimed that officers attempted to detain him, alleging he ignored commands and “threatened to advance or throw the knife at the officers”, although the limited witness footage did not capture this. The department further said that officers “deployed two separate Tasers in an attempt to subdue the suspect”, but when “the Tasers were ineffective”, they shot him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The LA sheriff’s department, which is investigating the killing, said in an initial statement that Lowe attempted to “throw the knife at the officers”, but a spokesperson later told the LA Times that Lowe “did not throw the knife ultimately, but he made the motion multiple times over his head like he was going to throw the knife”. The spokesperson also said that two officers had fired roughly 10 rounds at Lowe, who was hit in the torso. The Huntington Park department does not use body cameras.
  
  Emphasis mine. No bodycam footage means you can't trust the police narrative. >
  
  I‘m actually surprised that there aren’t more deaf people just absolutely getting massacred every day by the police for “not listening to commands“ and “threatening gestures“ >
  
  There was a kid a few years ago in Utah I believe who was listening to his headphones, cop tried to stop him, the kid eventually turned  around and was confronted with a screaming cop and a gun in his face and fumbled around, his hands went towards his waistband and the cop shot him.
  Very similar to what I imagine a deaf person would encounter. Horrifying. >
  
  Wasn't there a guy shot in spine from behind because he didn't hear cops, because cop though headphone wires were wires to a bomb so he "had to execute him" >
  
  That poor fucking family. Having to live every day of their lives knowing their loved one was taken away, and not only can they never receive recourse or closure, the fucking justice system said it was not an unreasonable action by the cop. 
  Sometimes I have nightmares where I know I'm right, I'm 100% right, and nobody believes me about whatever random thing it is. This must be how it feels every day. >
  
  im surprised this kind of stuff doesn’t radicalize the family members resulting in them doing something dangerous as a natural reaction to how messed up the system is >
  
  I can't see why they would shoot? Even if he was charging at them couldn't they just back up? >
  
  Cops have to be some of the most afraid/scared people on the planet. >
  
  They’ve gotta be, or at least the force attracts individuals that are trigger happy. I got one or two cops in my family and police academy is short, short enough to the point where I don’t believe that it’s the training alone that causes this.
  For the most part, the job just attracts a similar sort of people: afraid, power-hungry narcissists who want the clout that they’re serving their country but without having the balls to actually join the military or something that actually matters. >
  
  I do agree in part that the career draws a certain type of personality, but if the training is that short could the lack of proper training also be a cause?  Put a cop into a situation with a person having a manic episode after only some bare bones training focused on how to use the tools on your belt, and I could absolutely see where fear kicks in.  
  De-escalating a situation isn't something that comes naturally to everyone for all situations.  It needs to be taught and practiced and refined. >
  
  
  the career draws a certain type of personality,
  
  2 types of personality. Unfortunately, the "protect and serve" types are massively outnumbered by the "OBEY MY AUTHORITAH" types >
  
  who is this protect and serve guy and why isn't he trying to take down the other cops >
  
  Or have “accidents” or get driven to suicide >
  
  At this point is quite ridiculous calling them 'Police'.. >
  
  What's a better term? I suggest "State-sponsored armed gangs". >
  
  What they want to be called "Punisher" >
  
  Ironic, ain't it? >
  
  The sad part is, the Punisher would kill all these cops, especially the ones in gangs or the ones who kill bystanders to get the bad guy.
  And cops who see themselves in his role... Frank is a fucked up person. Then emulating him just solidifies that they are fucked up too. >
  
  
  And cops who see themselves in his role... Frank is a fucked up person. Then emulating him just solidifies that they are fucked up too.
  
  Either that, or that they don't read comics, they just see a guy with a gun killing criminals. In which case, they're still fucked up, just...dumber. >
  
  
  officers “deployed two separate Tasers in an attempt to subdue the suspect”, but when “the Tasers were ineffective”, they shot him. 
  
  Umm...what!? Come on! Cops with legs can't catch an amputee? >
  
  Shot him 10 times
  I guess the first 9 shots weren’t effective enough for them either >
  
  I’m a 34 year old healthy double amputee. My 2 year old is faster than me. >
  
  Prolly has better trigger discipline than cops, too. >
  
  It's not negligent firearms use when you want everyone dead. >
  
  Okay at this point if the Federal government doesn't institute a police or investigative bureau to charge cops outside their local judicial systems they are idiots. 
  Stop letting police and local judges or da's handle these cases because obviously they don't by in large do a good job. >
  
  The system is working as intended. >
  
  They couldn't take down a man with no legs? Give me a break. This is getting ridiculous.
  Edit: I'm not going to respond to every comment.
  If the cops couldn't arrest this guy without KILLING HIM, then they don't deserve to be cops. "He had a knife" big whoop. They could have done it, murdering him was just more fun for them, and easier. 
  Too many cops are proving over and over that they can't handle guns responsibly. >
  
  Dude could have had swords for legs.  I've seen the kingsmen >
  
  Or mechanical spider legs like the guy in Wild Wild West >
  
  Or guns for legs like in Planet Terror >
  
  Or legs for legs like in Running Man >
  
  Or a bunch of little tiny legs for legs like in Hitchers Guide to the Galaxy. >
  
  Or wheels for legs like in Return to Oz >
  
  Or a horse for legs like in Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe >
  
  Or baby legs like in Rick and Morty. >
  
  Or machine gun jubblies. Howd yal miss those >
  
  When will the white house release a federal mandate requiring all police and law enforcement in the US to wear body cameras while carrying a weapon? >
  
  They won’t. And if they did, it would be blocked by the Supreme Court. It’s bullshit. All officers should wear body cameras and all police involved shootings should be investigated by a separate organization that is unbiased. >
  
  All cops I have ever heard from love cameras because it protects them AND the public. The only people who don't want cameras are bad, evil, immoral, incompotent, or a combination of all. >
  
  …yes, those people are why it won't happen >
  
  What's crazy about the increasing amount of police killings in recent years is that it clearly demonstrates this is a US police issue, as no other country demands its citizens to basically know every component of the cop's handbook to know how to act so as to not get murdered by the police. We as citizens are expected to have better training, calmness, and clarity in a situation where there are 1-10 officers with bright lights, guns pointed, fingers on the trigger, yelling contradictory commands, sometimes breaking into your constitutionally-protected property without a knock-and-announce, without a warrant - hell, they might not even be at the right address or have the right person.
  "Just comply and you'll be fine" people seriously need to shut the fuck up forever. Cops are not your friends, they are not there to help or assist you, they do not have your interests in mind, and they have NO constitutional duty to intervene to help or protect you when you're actually in danger.
  So, other than defending property interests, they are a state-funded gang operation. Doesn't matter where you are. Of course, these people will never see true justice through consequences, because prosecutors, judges, and cops are all routine players in the same criminal justice system, so getting a judge or prosecutor to bring charges against police for excessive force or racism, even when there is clear and convincing evidence, is nearly impossible unless the judge or the prosecutor is retiring and doesn't care to have that working relationship with the PD/courts moving forward.
  We are far beyond reforming the police, it is abolition and defunding time, and to keep pushing for it until it becomes the norm. Community-funded protection groups and decentralizing the state's monopoly on violence and crime "prevention" is the only way forward that doesn't put every one of us at risk of being the next police fatality.
  If you've ever wondered why police budgets keep going up despite so many wrongs, how else do you think they pay for the settlements in police brutality/racism cases that actually DO end up making it to settlement/trial? WE, the taxpayers, are paying for the police's consequences because their budget comes from our taxes.
  So long as the police don't beat THEM up, or beat up somebody they wish they could, many US conservatives are more than happy to see their tax dollars go to the brutalization of the American population, and until that starts to change, nothing will.
  Edit - Even in situations where police are dealing with extremely violent and/or potentially life-threatening suspects, those people still deserve to be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced based on the laws of the US. That is what the criminal justice system exists for, and we have deemed that the morally correct process for punishing people who commit crime. Nobody - from a murderer to a traffic violation - should be summarily executed by the police because they can retroactively justify it based on invalid and contradictory reports (especially in states that don't require police body cameras that cannot be removed/erased). 
  Police are given the power to legally execute people in exchange for their "training" and their commitment to enforcing the laws as written as an agent of the state. Nobody else in this entire country can legally take that very significant and permanent action, and as such police should always do so as a last resort, instead of being given a laundry list of available circumstances when they can shoot someone or being given a massive range of justifications to validate such an action after the fact, eliminating the possibility of true justice. >
  
  They don’t use body cameras?! How is that even optional nowadays? >
  
  Maybe I'm missing something but how in the world could this fellow be a threat to the cops?  He wasn't going to get way quickly and how was he going to throw the knife? >
  
  There’s a video of a cop shooting a dude in a wheelchair in the back. They were in the entrance to Home Depot or something and he had a knife.
  He was in a wheelchair, they could’ve stopped him with a 2x4 >
  
  They could've stopped him with a broomstick into his spokes. >
  
  Really anything - a box of bananas would work >
  
  Law and Order: Mario Kart >
  
  In the criminal justice system, blue shells are considered especially heinous. >
  
  They really just look for any excuse to empty their guns into people. We shouldn't have people like this on the street, much less people like this patrolling them in a position of authority. >
  
  
  The department claimed that officers attempted to detain him, alleging he ignored commands and “threatened to advance or throw the knife at the officers”, although the limited witness footage did not capture this. The department further said that officers “deployed two separate Tasers in an attempt to subdue the suspect”, but when “the Tasers were ineffective”, they shot him. He was pronounced dead at the scene
  
  If a man with NO LEGS is a challenge to subdue and causes you fear, you should NOT be a fucking cop. >
  
  But if they don't become cops, they don't get to hurt people. >
  
  Were the officers using the 21-foot rule for when they're dealing with someone with a knife...who has no legs? /s
  
  The Huntington Park department does not use body cameras.
  
  Well, that's convenient. >
  
  Cops have got to be the biggest cowards in the world. Everything they encounter makes them fear for their lives. >
  
  If they weren’t cowards, they’d be fire fighters >
  
  This is why no one's ever written a song with the lyrics "fuck the fire department." >
  
  "People greet firemen with five fingers, and police officers with one." >
  
  So scared of a double amputee that was trying to get away from them that they had no choice but to shoot him.
  It reads like satire. Cops continue to reach new levels of pathetic every week it seems. >
  
  It’s even more bizarre when you learn that he recently lost his legs in another police altercation. >
  
  I assumed he was a vet. Jaw dropping that it also involved police. >
  
  Funny thing is each and everytime I call US police blatantly incompetent and say stuff like "Who needs terrorists, if you have cops running amok nearby?" there will be people defending that bullshit with claims about how big and diverse the US are and how we Europeans can't possibly understand the danger these cops experience in their jobs. 
  Well, the EU as a whole is not particularly small either, yet we don't read about cops murdering EU citizens on almost a daily basis.
  You guys should pretty much replace your entire police force. There are no good cops, just the monsters you see in the videos and the silent accomplices enabling them. Make it a degree program with strict selection criteria, so that most highschool bullies are weeded out even before training. >
  
  Is this the one with the dude carrying a cartoonishly large knife? >
  
  If he actually was threatening to throw a knife there are these giant hunks of metals everywhere called cars that you can stand behind and amazingly enough a knife can't penetrate them. Then you wait it out till he drops the supposed knife. >
  
  Sites like the Onion might as well close up shop. Reality has become so much more ridiculous. >
  
  Three officers can't handle one guy with no legs without killing him in cold blood? Did the guy had telekinesis? >
  
  Reads like an onion article. Honestly it's not surprising to me, as a person living in Chicago I had multiple encounters with cops where they acted more like gang members rather than police officers. >
  
  Guilty until proven dead >
  
  Murrican cops kill about three people and 25 dogs per day, and a hefty percentage of the victims were no credible threat to the cops. About 1/3 of the people cops shoot were running away at the time.
  If you feel like you aren't getting enough outrage in your diet, go read Radley Balko's horrifying book Rise of the Warrior Cop. >
  
  Police shot three people in the United Kingdom in 2022. Not per day, not per month, it was three people in the entire year. 
  Firearms officers (which to be clear, is not all police officers except in NI) usually aim to retire without firing a round outside of training. >
  
  Yup, cops in the UK have killed about as many people in a decade as the NYPD alone kills in a few months.
  Cops in many other countries are given serious training in DE-escalating tense situations. In the US, if the topic is mentioned at all, it is just given a perfunctory treatment. Then cops go to aftermarket training seminars like the ones run by Dave Grossman, where they are told that their lives are in grave peril every single second on the job (which is bullshit), then trained to shoot without hesitation. >
  
  How can we arrest school shooters who have killed multiple kids & are armed with ARs 
  but shoot a double amputee cause he has a knife? >
  
  If only there was a major discernible difference in these encounters...... >
  
  They’ve moved on from shooting unarmed men to unlegged men. >
  
  Cops seem to think they get to murder us as punishment for not following an order >
  
  That's how they're trained. They're literally trained as "us versus them" not "serving the people". These are tax funded gangs. >
  
  Aight, I officially believe American police forces need to be switched to whatever Europe police are doing. They need more training. This is absolutely insane. I’m a police supporter, but nothing is changing and is happening so frequently everywhere that it’s time the police departments are re-vamped completely. >
  
  This reminds me of that old video of British cops taking an aggressive knife wielding guy into custody. >
  
  Love living in a country where there's just uniformed untouchables running around with carte blanche authority to kill people without fear of repercussions >
  
  This is why filming police is so important. It's also why they push so hard to get you to stop filming them. Cops lie. Their statements are worthless. Even body cams are unreliable because they can turn them off or withhold/delay footage at their own discretion. 
  If you see an altercation and it is safe for you to do so, start filming. >
  
  It’s as inexcusable as you think it is. What a disgrace
  video >
  
  What happens when all of society turns their backs on the police and we just all ignore them? Then what are these assholes going to do? Their popularity level isn't high enough for anyone to want to help them. I'm not saying we don't need a police for of some extent but what we are doing now isn't working. >
  
  Certainly there must have been a way to DE-escalate the situation giving the guy had NO fucking legs. But I mean unno… I’m not trained as a cop. 
  I get the knife in hand but Christ almighty does no one have brain cells left. >
  
  Why do you think the police help when someone breaks into your house? Will show up an hour later and proceed to do Jack shit. Get your head out of your ass. Cops are not your friends! >
  
  How is killing someone equivalent to protecting and serving. Hope there really is a hell for people like this. >
  
  Protect and serve is a PR slogan from the 80's. It doesn't mean anything. The supreme court even ruled they have no duty to protect you even when actively in danger. >
  
  It's obvious the cops were terrified for their lives, that gentleman could have easily over powered them with his extensive training in Muay Tyai kickboxing.
  Are American cops just a bunch of spineless pussies who are terrified of people smaller than they are?
  Fuck the blue line. Fuck the police. >
  
  Jesus, even men who are literally unarmed aren't safe.
  In this case, however, how the hell is a man with no legs able to flee?  Are they serious? >
  
  Why are cops always so scared? They already have guns and qualified immunity. Maybe they should work somewhere safer, like a build a bear workshop >
  
  “Violent video games are murder simulators,” he says, “except when police officers and soldiers use them for training, in which case they are combat simulators.”
  That's a perfect 10 on the mental gymnastics. >
  
  What's it going to take for cops to stop killing people?  This is so fucked. >
  
  Actually reads like an Onion article wtf >
  
  It gets worse when you look at the LA times article linked in this one … 
  
  “Yatoya Toy, Lowe’s older sister, identified the man running from police as her brother. She said that his legs had been amputated after an altercation with law enforcement in Texas, and that the family also has questions about that incident.” >
  
  He lost his legs from cops in Texas only to later be murdered by cops in California? >
  
  No wonder he was scared(well, more than the normal amount of scared one would be when dealing with police). >
  
  It kinda seems like police departments spend a little too much time drilling into recruits' heads the circumstances when they're "allowed" to shoot someone, and not enough focus on when they "must" shoot someone. "Knife = fire at will" seems to be the only calculation that was done here. Like that dude in the Home Depot lot a year or two ago. >
  
  There's never any repercussions so why would they. >
  
  Well for a normal person it'd be the natural desire to not shoot another human. But it really does feel like some of these people are just waiting for the opportunity. >
  
  There absolutely guys who become police just for the chance to "legally" shot/kill someone. I knew some guys who signed up for the military just for that reason too. But those guys either ended up being total looser or cops after serving. >
  
  Total losers OR cops? Idk these things seem one in the same to me