• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    You don’t just shoot kids clearly having a mental health episode.

    Kid tried to jam a shovel in someone’s neck. That’s not a “mental health episode”. That’s an imminent deadly threat.

    There is no ROE that prohibits anyone from using lethal force in that situation. Never has been. Never will be.

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        8 months ago

        Not at all.

        I’m referring to an upvoted comment here that suggests soldiers wouldn’t have been justified in shooting this kid in a war zone, due to ROE. The author of that comment pulled it straight out of their ass: there never has been and never will be an ROE that would have prohibited this use of lethal force.

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      8 months ago

      You’re right. A Soldier could have shot him in a war zone. I would very much like our police to perform better than a scared shitless 19 year old kid with 14 weeks of training and no sleep in the past 48 hours.

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      8 months ago

      Jesus there is some hard cop-sucking cope here. A govt sanctioned gang member shows up and shoots a 15 year old. This self-aggrandizing hero kills a kid rather than retreating and licking his wounded ego. This is not public service. These are cowards who immediately soil themselves at the first sign of danger and then pat each other’s soiled bottoms over how brave they are when they kill someone.

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        8 months ago

        Big talk from someone who has never had a garden hoe swung at their head.

        Please, continue criticizing the actions of someone who has.