Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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    Yeah, that kind of mind set is what the typical US police officer seems to have. And it gets people killed over and over for petty offences, if any.

    This woman gets scared, she becomes unpredictable. “Well then, let’s stand in front of the car so that she can’t leave without trying to run me over! That is a great reason for me to murder her!”

    Or you can just let her go. It’s the same reason why in other countries you typically don’t see the high speed chases that you see on the US. You start chasing somebody, they start taking risks that put everyone at risk. You just let them go and catch them later when things have calmed down.

    It’s the same reason behind why do many mentally ill people are murdered by police officers in the US because they don’t know how to deescalate.

    This in turn is all a consequence of the lack of training that US police officers have. They barely train with their gun and that is most of the Training they get.

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      I still blame the lady.

      In a mellow tone: “You are beeing accused of shoplifting”. “ok cya”. Hits the pedal…

      i guess we can settle on having better training is always better.

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        Remind me to shoot you in the knees next time you speed 5kmh…

        This is about appropriate force. If you can’t deescalate a situation then you have no business carrying a badge and a gun.

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            1 year ago

            Exactly my point! What is wrong with these police officers that they ended up murdering a pregnant women over some petty shoplifting?