A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was shot dead Sunday in Indiana after resisting arrest, Indiana State Police said.A deputy with the Jasper County Sheriff's Department pulled over Matthew Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Indiana, around 4:15 p.m. Sunday, according to Fox 59.The deputy attemp...
  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
    911·
    4 天前

    Have none of you any empathy? What about the feelings of this cop who had to shoot one of his brothers because the cameras were on, did you think about that?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      313·
      3 天前

      I have a feeling cops would shoot each other all the time if they thought they could. Especially if it’s a white cop shooting a black cop. The whole “brotherhood” thing is performative. I’ve had the misfortune of doing ride-alongs with cops working for a local TV station. They can’t wait to tell you how all the other cops suck.

      • kava@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 天前

        I used to regularly visit a kava bar that happened to become a hang out spot for cops and military people. Honestly they didn’t seem that bad. One guy would come in every day for a kratom we’d take shells together. He played Slay the Spire on his switch, would ask for tips cause he kinda sucked.

        Really they take easily impressionable young men and through the system mold them into something toxic. We become the roles we play. Shakespeare or something

      • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 天前

        Not to sound like I’m defending them but are you sure it wasn’t just workplace gossip tier stuff?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          41·
          3 天前

          Maybe if they weren’t cops, yeah. But these are already people willing to murder for pretty much no reason at all. The only thing really stopping them is this stupid “brotherhood” crap which they drop in a second when the other cops aren’t around.

          So sure, maybe it’s just workplace gossip, but I know I’ve never worked in a place where I was expected to always defend my co-workers no matter how heinously they acted.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      15·
      4 天前

      Thanks to lifelong mental illness I only started developing more than a marginal sense of real empathy in my 30s, and it’s an extremely limited resource. So unfortunately I don’t have any to spare for the police.

      I’m still working on my natural tendancy to paint with a broad brush, which is more than I can say about the cops.