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[–] smh@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

An aquaintance was told "stop" by plainclothes police. He ran. He'd been mugged before and was convinced it was happening again. He got tackled but was physically fine, just shaken up.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 6 points 2 hours ago

The amount of people who pretend to be fake cops and murder their victims is not zero.

Ive had people who called themselves "cops" in plainclothes, and suddenly they weren't when the real popo show up

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

you know, people have been shot for less.

that cop should think twice about doing dumb shit like that.