"Teen murdered by police" would be a better title.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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As an autistic person this scares the shit out of me, and makes me realize just how fucking lucky I am to be alive with the sheer callous evil that I have seen happen towards me and others.
Gee, I bet he was brown, right?
Stories like this make my blood boil. Nothing will every be right until these thugs are put in jail where they belong. We are a long way from there right now. More than likely they will give them a raise for killing him.
Jail. You're kinder than I.
Idastan just brought back firing squads. They've already used it once iirc.
That said, I feel like jail is a worse punishment. I don't think cops fair well in jail. I want them to be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives while in prison. To never get out. To look out the barred window at the world passing them by in their cement tomb.
oh that's a religious thing don't get me started
What a stupid headline. He was killed from a police shooting, not from being removed from life support.
Maybe next time a killer is on trail he cpuld just argue that the victim just happened to die later from blood loss, not from the shooting.
I wish headlines were more direct.
"Police killed..." "Teacher raped..." "Politician lied..."
Not "Victim died after police..." "Teacher had sex with underage student..." Etc
newspapers are long in the business of not getting sued.
If you write a story about a rich enough person, they have someone whose job it is to litigate every story about them. It's automatic. They do something news worthy and all you do is repeat the fact, the lawsuit is on your desk the same day. Doesn't matter how truthful it is, the lawsuit is there because they are rich.
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Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest
Land of the free
We’ll kill you to keep you quiet about us killing you.
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Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest
Hey hey hey now, if you're going to protest our violence we may get you a whole lot more that, so be careful now!
Here’s a reminder that the Black Panthers started because people realized that peaceful unarmed protests were quickly met with police violence… But peaceful heavily armed protests had cops politely watching from across the street. Turns out, cops are a lot less likely to blindly fire into crowds when the crowds are capable of returning fire with overwhelming force.
Even MLK Jr said that peaceful protest only gets you so far; Disrupting highway traffic is fine for bringing awareness to your plight, but at a certain point the lawmakers and dug-in oligarchs need to be forced to change.
Apparently, what armed protests get you is gun control. Which isn't too bad I guess.
Yeah, I was going to mention that modern gun control was started by republicans because they were scared of armed black protestors. But that felt a little too tangential for a single comment.
The officers, whose names have not been released, were placed on administrative leave.
Anonymity and a paid vacation for a lead amputation of a neurodivergent teen. And then they add insult to injury by posting up fucking snipers. I can't say anything else that won't get me a ban...
I can’t say anything about else that won’t get me a ban…
This is Lemmy, you have to worry less about banning for some stuff. But you do have to worry about things being really difficult to delete (potentially impossible, if any instances are maliciously recording things). And even upvotes and downvotes are public information in a Federated system.
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Just a reminder, Blue Lives are supposed to matter less than everyone else. That's why they sre issued a badge and a gun. They are supposed to put themselves at risk to protect the community. At least, that's the story we're told as kids. It's the justification used to obtain our consent to be policed.
If police are so afraid for their safety that they kill innocent civilians, even by mistake, then they do not deserve our consent. The do not deserve authority over us, they do not deserve the free use of force, and they do not deserve the legal deference provided them by our justice system.
Blue Lives Don't Matter, or it's fascism.
They are supposed to put themselves at risk to protect the community.
Besides law enforcement in the US does have some origins from slave patrols.
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Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop
JFC.
Police: oops we shot someone we didn't have to.
Also Police: perhaps shooting more people we don't have to will make things better.
When the people get mad at police violence, the only tool in their toolbag is more violence
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Dave Grossman is a conman who should be in prison for the shits he’s peddled to the LE community; and fostering and fomenting an “us against them”.
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The kid was on the other side of a chain link fence fence! He was literally in a cage.
Why do we put the community's biggest cowards in charge of protecting us?
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ACAB.
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