The police may claim “officer-involved shooting” is more appropriate before the facts about who shot whom are established. Yes it is BS designed to protect officers and the department from full scrutiny, but it is the sort of factually correct BS that is hard to argue against.
Is this thread limited only to where the cops were out of line? Because if not, this one’s a doozy: QAnon followers in Canada descended upon a police station to make “citizens’ arrests” of the officers. It … didn’t end well.
Salt Lake City police called to the scene of a man having a mental health crisis, proceed to whoop his ass. He later died. Police video of fatal encounter shows lack of de-escalation
The police may claim all kinds of things. I was asking why the press copies their tortured passive voice prose. In police press releases, things happen around police officers but police officers never actually do anything (unless it unambiguously makes them look good). But the press is under no obligation to follow the police’s lead in cases like this. The only people doing the shooting in the story in question (so far as anyone can tell given the tortured passive voice prose) were police. The press could write their story using language that doesn’t obscure that fact. And it would give the police in the story agency, too! Agency being exercised in questionable ways, perhaps, but agency nonetheless. Otherwise people might start feeling sorry for the police who are apparently helpless to shape the events they are a part of.
Sure, a nitpick, but I would’ve put this in the Omnibus Stupid Mofo thread instead, with the focus not on the cops but on the absolutely bonkers ignoroids whom I disown as compatriots, violently initiating all the brouhaha (balderdash, ballyhoo!) to begin with, and nicely summed up by this quote from the article:
Maryland police settle with mother of five-year-old boy after cops verbally berated him, cuffed him, and put him into the back of a cruiser for walking out of school. "An officer is also accused of telling the boy, “this is why people need to beat their kids” and “I hope your mama let me beat you.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/maryland-police-officer-sued-threatening-140549772.html
Unfortunately the bleeding hearts liberals who dominate this thread don’t understand how dangerous a vape pen is to a responding officer:
This encounter is just weird
I mean, it is kinda an encouter.
Of the ghost kind…
Vape pens don’t usually cause someone’s death quite that quickly.
We already know discrimination does not stop at the victim’s death, so why should police actions against the victim stop then, too?
Official: Suspect in Canada stab rampage died after arrest | AP News
They are calling it a self-inflicted wound – but it is Canadian police, those bobbies never distort the facts.
The Beloved and I were discussing this over supper. Our best guess was that he and his brother got into a knife fight a couple of days ago.
Is this becoming a thing?
West Virginia doesn’t have the death penalty, so I am forced to wish for life without parole for the cops involved if it does turn out that Owens was unarmed, as witnesses state.
DOJ probe into LMPD could include sexual misconduct detailed in VICE News…
A VICE News episode examines allegations of sexual misconduct by LMPD officers.
Saw a youtube video on this from a few years back. It seems the pattern of behavior is rampant. Cops force women into sex either by force or by threats of charges. When they complain to the Public Integrity Unit, the find that name of the unit is a big joke and they are actively discouraged from proceeding, then close cases without any investigation.
LMPD - Louisville (Kentucky) Metro Police Department
Florida cop took a teenage girl’s phone from her when she was arrested, skimmed through the naked photos of her while driving, hit a deer because he was distracted by the photos, gave her half a sandwich then told her the sandwich wasn’t free and groped her while handcuffing her, then suggested a threesome with her mother.
It’s no wonder it’s hard to find enough people wanting to be police, if such common and simple conduct now gets one fired. /s