“When the first officer arrived on scene, several community members pointed him toward a nearby home reporting that children were inside, and somebody was shooting. The officer approached the open front door and reported seeing a struggle. He yelled at the men to show their hands, but neither fully complied. This is when the officer-involved shooting took place,” the department said.
Notice the change to passive voice. “The officer arrived”, “community members pointed”, “somebody was shooting”, “the officer approached”, “he yelled”.
Then just “the officer-involved shooting took place”.
That type of corporate whitewashing of language pisses me off so much. The shooting did not take place. The officer shot the victim.
The officer entered the house and saw people fighting. They didn’t listen to him so he started shooting
The officer entered the house without consent and shot people inside of it.
Police don’t need consent if they have reason to believe a violent crime is happening, and even from an ACAB perspective it would be wild to make community-protectors wait at the door in this situation. Everything after that point is an abject failure.
Felony murder is so fucked up
If you have a problem and call a pig, now you have two problems.
Interesting that the website has a category for “Police Shootings”. I’m not sure I know of many other countries that need this.
Christian Diaz
Gee, I wonder why the cops shot him?
“wait a minute chief, his name’s Christian” “Oh wait. Christian Diaz… My bad, you know what to do”
Can we determine from statistics if on average getting the police involved in any situation improves the outcome of the situation? Genuine question.
That means they would probably have to have accurate data on the subject.
Good guy with a gun, gunned down by other good guy with a gun.
I’m not sure about the “good”
“No situation has ever been improved with the addition of the constabulary”.
