https://nitter.1d4.us/Stephon_Dingle/status/1656746478109442048
Chicago did it a few years ago:
The officers approached a male suspect exhibiting characteristics of an armed person, when an armed confrontation ensued resulting in an officer discharging his weapon and fatally striking the offender.
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Augustus took out his wallet to show Jones his Firearm Owners Identification card. He does not appear to have had a concealed-carry permit, but if he had, he would never have had an opportunity to show it, for three white officers — all of them rookies and presumably unfamiliar with the neighborhood they were policing — surrounded him. Without any verbal warning and without probable cause to initiate an arrest, Officer Megan Fleming grabbed his arm from behind. Startled, he sought to break free and took several stumbling steps into the street. While doing so, his hand appeared to touch his holstered gun. Halley shot him five times. Augustus fell to the street, holding in his hand not his gun, which remained holstered, but his FOID card. Moments later, an officer who arrived on the scene immediately after the shooting placed handcuffs on the motionless body of Harith Augustus.
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/19/harith-augustus-shooting-chicago-police/
An officer who arrived on the scene immediately after the shooting placed handcuffs on the motionless body of Harith Augustus.
:arm-L: :a-guy: :arm-R:
:the-pigs: HE'S DISPLAYING TRAITS OF AN ARMED PERSON
Are people generally aware that authority figures do pretty much everything based on vibes? I’m not sure how to say this without sounding like I’m justifying it because I don’t think it’s justified. Maybe way to say it is that the incentives make this process make sense to people in authority.
Let’s take being a forum moderator as an example. It’s a low consequence position, almost always taken on a volunteer basis, but it requires maintaining some kind of order for a large number of people by sifting through large amounts of information. Literally the first thing that happens when a community realizes they’re being moderated is that the more disruptive people in that community (disruptive being value-neutral in this context) try to make it more difficult to tell the difference between their behavior and the behavior of less disruptive users. In the context of this community to give an example, someone coming in to troll for an extended period of time will make their account last a couple days or sometimes weeks before starting in on agitating. Because it’s generally known here that new accounts are quicker to be seen as sus.
So basically, the people who, according to the internal logic of your power structure, are deserving of punishment, do everything in their power to make you require more context to make an informed decision. It’s out of self preservation. Of course they do that. So it’s a common refrain in the security world and in moderation to look for clusters of disruptive behaviors.
If you’re TSA, you’re not looking for the guy who looks nervous. You’re looking for the guy who looks nervous and sets off the metal detector and “forgets” to put his bag on the belt, etc. And if you’re a forum moderator, you’re not looking for someone who’s being hostile because they’ve had a bad day. You’re looking for someone who repeatedly walks right up to the line and makes a big show of not crossing it and then feigns ignorance when people point this out. Your ability to recognize the difference as an authority figure basically just comes down to a vibe check. You don’t have the resources to conclusively prove and justify every single interaction you have. It’s just vibes.
And of course we know that for pigs, they exist to protect white supremacy and serve capital. So the “disruptive” behavior that they look for already puts large swaths of minorities in that “clustered behavior” category just by existing. Because being poor or desperate (both common outcomes of oppression) is disruptive to affluent people who don’t want to think about you or have you interact with them.
I dunno, kinda of a weird rant, but I think this pattern is pretty ubiquitous. I could write for a while about how this affects teachers, too.
Yeah they'll just like punish kids rather than actually find out if they really did anything wrong, because they don't have time.
Americans have a second amendment for this exact reason but watch conservatives bootlick over this anyway
Nice of cops to wear uniforms so Saint Dorner didn't need to go on vibes
That anti-terrorist training has all the police thinking they’re Bruce Fucking Willis
They do, unfortunately it's current-decade Bruce Willis. 24/7 impaired judgement, and slow to recognize reality - bordering on incapable of doing so.
Anyone with any damn power in this country just treats life like a video game or some shitty movie.
It’s no wonder why weaker American leftists fetishize movements which never held power. They can’t imagine a government which isn’t abusive.
Lol @ the thumb in the top pic literally thought that was a tent on first look
Also acab ofc
What the fuck, man. It took me rereading this like 3 times to realize the police shot the guy here, not giving help to someone shot by a 3rd party. The next-level dogwhistling of "traits of an armed person" is just the cherry on top of this obscured, almost indecipherable fucking post. How the fuck does someone write this and sleep at night? I hate to do the lib thing, but like actually, do they have shame? What a complete fucking hack. Stupid fucking name too, Strap-on Dingus or whatever
God, the second amendment is such a thing that we have. We have such a right to bear arms in this country. It exist so much
The cops commit horrific violence based on gut feelings? :astronaut-2:
Always have :astronaut-1:
