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minus-squarecollapse_already@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·4 months agoPolice claim “kid was armed and pointing it at the cops.” Cops are famous for making up bullshit to justify their murders after the fact.
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·4 months agocops are trained to shout “he’s got a gun” after opening fire regardless because eyewitnesses won’t remember the order of events and back them up
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoEven if that was true, though, it doesn’t justify it.
minus-squarecollapse_already@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoTrue, but cops think it does.
minus-squareLv_InSaNe_vLlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIdk “he was aiming a gun at me” is a pretty good reason to shoot back imo. Now whether or not he was actually doing that is a different story
Police claim “kid was armed and pointing it at the cops.” Cops are famous for making up bullshit to justify their murders after the fact.
cops are trained to shout “he’s got a gun” after opening fire regardless because eyewitnesses won’t remember the order of events and back them up
Even if that was true, though, it doesn’t justify it.
True, but cops think it does.
Idk “he was aiming a gun at me” is a pretty good reason to shoot back imo. Now whether or not he was actually doing that is a different story