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They didn't fucking try to reason, or use reasonable force. They brought a rifle, left their fucking car door open, and killed the dude when he tried to grab it. Meanwhile, no forms of non lethal incapacitation were used. Because they are trained to kill.
Cops are the bad guy, and they made the issue worse by being there, because they aren't trained to de-escalate.
I'd rather trust a fucking gator wrangler to be more efficient at stopping him.
Tasers aren't a form of non-lethal incapacitation?
Not really, no.
Tasers can be really fucking dangerous to people. Same with rubber bullets.
Just because its publicly called "non-lethal" doesn't mean they haven't caused a lot of people to die.
Which is why they're called "less lethal" now. They are lethal just not AS lethal as a gun (a machine built and designed to kill).
No.
"Less lethal" is the actual descriptor. Like rubber bullets (which are about the size of a ping-pong ball).
Ok next time you see a meth head running about doing shit like this tell people not to call the cops because you’ll stop him by reasoning with him and hugging him.
How about we build a society where your insane take isn't common (insanely common), because we actually take care of people, reducing the possibility of this situation in the first place?
I wish for that too. But we’re talking about the society we live in, not in the idealized one we wish we lived in. In the one we live in the situation happened and I don’t think the cops were completely wrong to act the way they did. Could and should they have done something else, I guess all the comments point to yes, but that doesn’t mean that they were entirely wrong to act the way they did. I would not put my own life on the line if I’m in the position of having to defend myself against a rabid meth head trying to steal my rifle.
Guess we'll just kick that can down the road every single time an incident comes up then.
Par for the course.
Depends how hard you hug...