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  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“
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.