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joeylittle
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Found this piece in Buzzfeed on Racial Gaslighting - I thought it was a really interesting read, for anyone interested.
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here is no way he could have known the man would die, he might have thought he may die but a superior with lots of experience obviously didn't think so. Again, wrong, but there wasn't a clear path for him to follow without knowing the death was imminent.
There's something seriously wrong with the policing system then. Like, seriously, fundamentally wrong.So if senior guy says "don't worry" they have no reason to think what they are seeing isn't a restraint technique...it's actually a murder
Its a culture thing that LE and the military share - obey and don't ask questions until after the situation is over because if someone is shooting at us I don't have time to answer .
If the consequences of "Get off him, boss" are so grievous that it's worth letting a civilian die? Then they've made the right call shutting that police force down.
When any police force starts using those powers with complete disregard for the safety of individual citizens, because the internal power dynamics of the police force have become so toxic?
and if their training has them prioritising "do what boss says at any cost, including human life"? That's not training, that's tyranny.
but if a police officer has to ALWAYS assume the other person is more likely than not armed? Then of course you get a culture of “shoot first, ask later”.
Hence why other deescalation tactics play a much larger role, both in training and in every day service.
Quotas for example if the population is X% Hispanic etc then the new protective officers are X% Hispanic etc etc