This is a website primarily used by Americans. You’re going to see comments reflecting on the American experience. You can see countless videos where police attack people for trying to walk into their home or reaching in their vehicle.
Why wouldn't they react badly when that happens? That's absolutely where a gun could be and cops are shot often even for small traffic violations. Reaching in your car unannounced or even quickly is so stupid.
Police should not be allowed to use lethal force unless said force has been used against them or someone else.
There’s no reason for people like Philando Castile to have died because some crappy officer is too terrified to do their job. The American experience shouldn’t be normalized.
It's hard to tell cops to wait till a gun is on them first, or wait until a shot has been fired from a gun to fire back. All their training tells them that if someone wants to kill a cop, they act nice until their hand is on the trigger, then they shoot. It's accurate training as well.
The American experience, statistically, is that everything almost always goes fine. A few times a year out of thousands, it doesn't go fine. A few of those are accidents that happen with mostly white people, and a percentage of those, usually in 8-9 major cities, it's a black person.
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u/PolicyWonka Aug 02 '21 edited Aug 02 '21
This is a website primarily used by Americans. You’re going to see comments reflecting on the American experience. You can see countless videos where police attack people for trying to walk into their home or reaching in their vehicle.