San Jose cop who shot good guy in 2022 is fired for racist text messages
San Jose cop who shot good guy in 2022 is fired for racist text messages
WTF are people supposed to do? No way anyone's intervening to save you when it puts a target on their fucking back, and cops have zero duty to protect you.
Really dislike people pulling the "where was the good guy with the gun" card when someone who fights a gunman unarmed and wins still gets shot by the cops, and the cop goes away unscathed. Obscene that literally the only reason anything happened to him in this case was him blabbing racist shit.
Well, at least when conservatives say "we need a good guy with a gun," I can point to this and tell them what happens when there is one.
The problem is normalization. The only-government-can-have-guns crowd pushes inaccurate perceptions to advance the agenda.
Black with a gun? Definitely get shot. White with a gun? Maybe get shot. Holding a gun at a place where someone did something with a gun? 110% you're getting shot.
This all while about 50% of Americans own guns. It's not like you simply assume every male is a rapist and kill them on sight just in case, or more accurately to my analogy charge every male within some distance of a rape occurring with a felony and put them on a list for life just to be safe.
This post has been reported for a subject line not matching the original headline.
While that IS a hard and fast rule in other subs I moderate, it is not on the rule sheet here.
Full disclosure, I PERSONALLY think matching the subjext to the headline is the best idea and I reached out to Doug. If he changes it, that's fine, but I won't add it as a rule and enforce it over a single post.
That's not a rule for a reason.
Of the small sliver of police misconduct that makes the news, much or most is hidden under headlines that tend to obfuscate what's reported. "Officer sentenced" but the headline doesn't say what the sentence is — it's often probation, or the infamous "year and a day." Yesterday a headline hid a guard's rape of inmates as "other crimes." This cop's oopsie killing of a good guy merits mention.
We gonna fire that second cop too or is he just stay unnamed? These texts were uncovered by an unrelated investigation, not fucking reported by either of the racists giggling about them. Both these men are scum and belong nowhere near a position of power.