Maybe the cops should be a little more careful who they decide to murder.
The kid stole a car, and then was running away and pointing his loaded gun at the police when they shot him.
Allegedly. I don’t know that it won’t turn out, in the end, that it was actually his car, and it was a sandwich, and the officer involved had been fired from 3 departments and the cops lied about everything, and so on. But usually making sense of the world by just picking in advance who are the good guys and bad guys, and applying that to every single situation regardless of who’s involved or what the details are, is a bad way to go.
There’s a video out there of the shooting. The cops arrive at the scene near an allegedly stolen car, four black teens run in different directions away. Within six seconds of arriving on scene, the cop shoots and kills the kid that’s in front of him. He was holding a bag, and was absolutely running away.
The cops say he had a gun after the fact, and I think the video shows a gun on the ground in the parking lot, away from where people were running. The two other teens were charged with whatever they call car theft there, one is still at large, and of course the last one was killed by police.
I thought I found a non-edited version of the video last night, but I can’t find it again this morning. Yet.
Yeah, that would change things a lot. If the kid was unarmed, and the cop shot him in the back and then said he’d been holding a gun and pointed it at the cop…
If you do find the unedited version of it please post, I would like to see.
If the video with kid pointing a gun existed, it would already be out by now.
So either they don’t the video or the video is no good…
The police, as an institution, have entirely lost the benefit of the doubt.
And the policy of “shot first” is not one I want to see in my civilian protection agency.
The whole point of what the father did was because all this “fear for my life” and ‘allegedly’ doesn’t matter. You kill a family member, they kill a family member right back. That’s it. That is the logic and frankly I understand it.
This is about the consequences of not having a functioning justice system particularily with regards to the enforcers. Instead of simply not chasing a kid clearly fleeing they chose to end his life. Maybe next time they won’t.
You kill a family member, they kill a family member right back. That’s it. That is the logic and frankly I understand it.
Well I don’t see any way that can possibly go wrong in the long run.
This is about the consequences of not having a functioning justice system particularily with regards to the enforcers. Instead of simply not chasing a kid clearly fleeing they chose to end his life. Maybe next time they won’t.
I actually kind of agree with this. When the systems of justice break down, people are going to start taking stuff into their own hands. And who could blame them? My point is that that makes falsely claiming that the systems of justice have broken down and every time the cops shoot someone, it’s an atrocity and they do it all the time without consequences a pretty fucking bad thing to do. That’s why I tend to argue about this on Lemmy.
Like I say, for all I know it happened the way you said. Also, for all you know, it happened just the way the cops said. You have no idea, and you’re still very certain of the answer. Specifically because of the consequences in the world when people start running off with their favorite narrative even though they have no idea, that’s a bad bad thing.
That’s why I tend to argue about this on Lemmy.
Thank you for doing this! I saw this same story elsewhere and a lot of similar ACAB/good for the father comments elsewhere even though the article seems to hint the deputy killed was not involved in the shooting.
My first thought was the father was out driving, saw the deputy and was so overcome that he targeted the deputy in the spur of the moment, not that this was some planned retribution thing.
Just know I appreciate you.
Yeah. The Lemmy hivemind is a hell of a drug.
The funny thing about being a conscious entity with the capacity to remember things is that, in order to survive and navigate the world, one tends to notice patterns in the world at large. One then uses these past patterns to predict future events. This cuts down significantly on the processing required to survive and navigate the world, which is evolutionarily advantageous because energy is at a premium.
We know this is effective because we are here and that trait has persisted in our species. It is part of the human condition.
So, you should not be surprised when we all notice this pattern of cops doing violent crime with no punishment, for decades, and we then do a human consciousness about it by assuming - with solid factual basis - that the cop is the aggressor in every situation. It is not our fault, it is theirs - the police, as an institution, lost our collective trust because of their collective official actions. Are there some good cops who do their best to serve their community, and care deeply? Yes. It’s that the official stance of every police force in America? Of course not. Stop blaming us for this pervasive attitude; we are taking the logical stance in the face of what we have observed.
The funny thing about being a conscious entity with the capacity to remember things is that, in order to survive and navigate the world, one tends to notice patterns in the world at large. One then uses these past patterns to predict future events. This cuts down significantly on the processing required to survive and navigate the world, which is evolutionarily advantageous because energy is at a premium.
Yeah, which is why when the cops spend all their time every day just chasing around violent assholes who stole somebody’s car, beat their spouse, stole some cigarettes, drove drunk, or whatever, it starts to become totally justified to
Wait what were we talking about again?
The facts of the individual matter. Beyond that, I don’t even agree with you that the cops do violent crime with no punishment that is objectively false. It used to be true. Back in the 80s and 90s it was godawful, up until 2020 it was still pretty bad, after 2020 it’s changed. In my opinion. Like I said elsewhere, probably a fair way to do it is to list out a handful of high-profile cases from the last few years where the cops did something fucked up, and then ask what percentage of the time they got charges for it.
Lemmy likes to take this simple confident narrative that the answer is more or less 0%. That is clearly and objectively wrong. And then, they expand it out into this whole table-pounding-on narrative why it’s perfectly okay to slam into some person who’s just out doing their job with your car if you’re upset because your son stole a car and ran around with a gun and some shit happened (again – assuming that the cops are telling the truth more or less about how it happened). I get why a father would react that way. It’s a pretty human reaction, any father would at least want to. I don’t get why people on Lemmy are defending it.
You can’t be both perfectly comfortable lumping every single individual into a class of people and then killing any of them you feel like if you get upset about something that happened, and also get upset when the police do the exact same thing (which, again, they aboslutely should not do) with the class of people who are “suspects.” It is 100% exactly the same evolutionary pattern recognition you are defending here.
I point out that “the way it used to be” trained the public to see the police this way, and your response is “But it’s not that way anymore”. Do you understand how training works?
If you want this perception to change, it’s going to take at least as many decades of the police being exactly what they should have been this whole time. That’s the fact. The public perception makes sense, whether you want to admit it or not; arguing against decades of practical training is a losing proposition.
I’m not interested in your justifications, because that’s not what I’m doing here, so I’m going to block you now. Do think about this further, I believe you’ll be able to understand what I’m saying eventually.
There’s actually a friend-of-a-friend of mine who is a LEO, and he explicitly told my friend that he racially profiles, for exactly this reason. Everything you were saying was his justification.
Have a good day, I hope your blocking goes well.
Perhaps if police would more often be held accountable in a fair justice system, people wouldnt be so easily swayed to say they ‘had it coming’.
Who’s one cop in the last three years who’s done something fucked up and not gotten charged for it?
I actually know of one. The prosecutor charged him and the state governor overrode the charges because he was a Republican. I don’t know of another.
Up until about 2020, the police could get away with fucked up stuff, and then after BLM the system changed substantially, and as far as I can tell the left is still steaming forward with the narrative that it is 2014 and no one ever gets charged for anything. I would be a little bit surprised if you can name a couple of cops who have gotten away with stuff since 2020, but if you can, I would bet that I can name 5 cops that have gotten charges for every one that you can name that got away with it.
It’s the pendulum theory. Things were real fucked up for a long time, cops could just straight-up kill people or beat the fuck out of them for no reason and nothing happened because they were cops. And now, the pendulum of public opinion has swung all the way to the other side, and the cops are always guilty and always pieces of shit if something happens, even if someone was actively trying to kill them or someone else when it happened.
I already know I am not going to change your mind on this, and I’m actually not into having a long debate about it right now. I am just stating my opinion. I also know nothing about the facts of this case beyond what the cops have claimed. I am just saying that usually this blanket “these people are ALWAYS BAD, NO EXCEPTIONS, AND I WILL GET ANGRY IF YOU DISAGREE” that doesn’t need any factual input about the situation is a warning sign to watch out for, in your thinking.
“Charges” are a start. How many can you name who suffered the usual penalty for killing someone?
- Erik Hernandez, for shooting a man who was driving away when he was trying to stop and question him
- Brad Lunsford, for shooting a man who was fighting with another officer
- Andrew Buen, for shooting a man who had called for help but then was refusing to exit his vehicle and apparently in some kind of mental distress
All convicted this year. If you want to look at an incomplete list just of the ones that were convicted or plead guilty after being charged, going back into the past, there is one here:
Maybe a more fair way to estimate is to look at the number of high-profile cases where, clearly, something terrible had happened, and then see what percentage of those involved charges for the cops. Tyre Nichols is the only one recently that I am aware of, and the cops got charges.
Before 2020, that percentage was way too low. After, as far as I know, it is a clear majority of the time. It should be 100%, but it’s not. But if you talk to Lemmy, then the number is 0%, and that’s just clearly objectively wrong.
Edit: 2020 not 2000
Considering my city is paying 30 million dollars for a settlement for the entire police force taking bribes and looking the other way while a some businessman sexually assualts ~500 women and children. And only because it got the fed’s attention. But to noones shocked, not a single officer took the rap.
I just looked it up: It’s worse than that. The feds haven’t really done anything at all, it was a civil suit by some of the victims.
The FBI and the state law enforcement agency apparently haven’t done all that much. People told them, they came by and asked the cops if they took any bribes, the cops said no. The end. This all came to light last year, and apparently it was on the radar of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section which is the agency that would normally investigate and actually bring charges to the cops. But they didn’t do anything before Trump got in, and he has already fired most of them, so it’s very unlikely that anything more will happen now that the city’s paid the settlement. I think a couple people are bringing a new lawsuit, too, but that’s not really justice.
Story from last year: https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/lawsuit-feds-probing-johnson-city-police-over-serial-rapist-cover-up-allegations/
There’s a more recent story in the New Yorker if you’re able to read those: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/how-police-let-one-of-americas-most-prolific-predators-get-away
Basically, long story short, it’s real fucked up, debatable whether anything would have happened without Trump, and incredibly unlikely that anything will happen now.
So you agree… ACAB in past and now.
No, I just am willing to admit facts even if they don’t fit my narrative. I asked for a single example, you provided one, fair play. It doesn’t undo the entire narrative, but it’s relevant. Absolutely.
Part of the reason I talk about these things is to hear opposing points of view and a lot of times there’s some validity to them. I never heard of this whole situation before we talked and it’s real fucked up.
There are also other alternative ways to conduct one’s self in disagreement conversations.
In police body-camera footage obtained by NBC News, an officer is seen exiting his vehicle and aiming a firearm at the teenager as he runs away. The officer fired at least four shots, the police chief said, and Hinton fell to the ground.
The footage does not clearly show whether the 18-year-old brandished his gun toward police.they executed that kid and then planted a gun on his corpse… is this your first time?
See, this is what I was talking about.
You’re so confident, just because it lines up with your favorite way to look at things, even though you have literally no idea what happened.
Confidence and easy answers that always point the same direction, that feel good and let you be righteous about what you’re saying, are alluring. They feel safe and solid, and people trust them. Be careful of that.
after watching hundreds of videos where it happens exactly like that, and after watching video of this exact incident. no.
it’s quite clear the kid didn’t fire first. no gun visible in the bodycam video at all….
they shot him in the back while he was running away.you’re a lot more confident than me, responding to every single comment on here like spam….
we don’t need your opinion over and over and over again.
Where’s the video of this incident? I didn’t know it had been released.
the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots… “i have no idea what the previous frame of the video shows!?!”.
at least read the article you posted yourself.
clearly you came in here to defend to cops.
the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots…
clearly you came in here to defend to cops.
What, the video that doesn’t show the relevant part of the shooting or the segment that includes the screengrab?
I thought maybe I was the weird one, so I went back and watched the whole thing just to make sure. No, it’s basically B-roll and the chief talking and the least relevant part of the incident. That’s it. The video tells you nothing at all about what happened.
It’s in the link they posted. Here’s the screen grab of where they shot him in the back.
That’s not a video, that’s a screen grab. It looks like the video itself on the site only shows from the second officer’s camera, and fades out when the shooting starts. xor said they’d watched the video of the actual incident… but maybe they meant this video which doesn’t really show a damn thing. Am I missing something?
I mean maybe they are not releasing the first person video because it clearly shows the kid’s hands were empty or something, and the officer lied when he said the kid brandished his gun at him. I have no idea. This screen grab could be right after showing his hands empty, or this could be a frame from 0.2 seconds after the kid pointed his gun at the cop just like the cop said, or something in between.
you put “allegedly” in the next paragraph… odd choice, boot licker.
Did the deputy have anything to do with the shooting?
Yeah.
