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  Or have “accidents” or get driven to suicide
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