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A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Yeah... no doesn't really provide much context
Yes it does. This person was shot because he was attacking cops.
It's crazy how some of you think this shouldn't happen.
I used to be a youth worker. If a kid tried to stab me with scissors, which wasn't completely uncommon, I wasn't allowed to fucking kill a child in my care instantly on the spot.
Instead, I learned de-escalation techniques and after a while it never even came to attempted stabbing because we worked out systems where it didn't ever get that far.
Often the question gets asked - "What restraining techniques did you use?"
I didn't. Didn't need 'em.
"What if someone is completely insane?"
Fiction. No one is completely insane. It's a myth made up to justify lethal force and summary execution.
"Would you go up against someone with a gun without a gun?"
They didn't have a gun they had a fork. But also, I didn't apply interview, train and get paid to be an LEO. These people did.
Fast walking towards people with a fork QUICK SEND IN THE SPECIAL FORCES HE'S DANGEROUS
he grabbed an officers gun, dude. This isn't George Floyd.
Pretty easy to grab a gun when the ratio of guns to people in the room is 2:1