3038

“happened to be cradling a pistol as he slumbered?” that sentence is doing a lot of work.

3039

It’s fairly apt as far as describing the situation. What are you saying?

I’m guessing it’s not “sleeping with a gun is a perfectly good reason for the cops to murder you.”

3040

It just raises the image of cartoon sheep floating above his head as he cradles his gun. I haven’t watched the video and don’t intend to, I would assume it was something more along the lines of “he was sleeping next to a gun and when the police broke in he grabbed it and was shot.” ?? Or maybe not, my understanding was that there’s bodycam footage?

No-knock warrants need to be stopped almost entirely, IMO. Maybe if it’s a terrorist cell with a bomb, but for just about anything less they just lead to this sort of thing.

3041

The body cam footage is ~7 seconds long if you decided you do want to see the situation.

3042

This is basically it.

Dude was sleeping. Cops busted in. He grabbed his gun because dudes broke into his house yelling at him and he just woke up. They shot him because he was holding a gun.

The added kicker is, of course, the cops had no reason to be there.

3043

Yeah, the person they were supposed to be looking for was not even there

3044

Par for the course, it seems. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Breonna’s Law. It was really good package of police reforms that was palatable to all sides.

3045

Guilty x3 in Minneapolis

3046
3047

Cop threatens handcuffed guy in custody, then when a junior officer intervenes, he grabs them by the throat and screams at them, and tells all the other cops at the scene to shut off their cameras.

End result was the junior officer got praised by the department, and the crazy cop got suspended.

3048

And by suspended, you mean arrested and charged with assault, right? Right?

3049

Per the article there is an ongoing criminal investigation.

3050

More like free $65k vacation.

3051

I’m sure the town 30 miles down the highway will deeply appreciate their new sergeant two months from now.

3052
3053

Psychopaths are a huge problem in police forces:

3054

People in that thread that think anything is going to happen to this cop.

Cops killing dogs is what they call a day ending in Y.

3055

At this point , unless someone was actively committing a violent crime, I’d consider anyone shooting a cop to be acting in self-defense and would acquit.

3056

Statistically the most dangerous stranger you can ever encounter is a police officer.

3057

Long thread but reinforces your point.