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.
Pretty much any country with armed police.
Do you think state sponsored violence is unique to the US?
- Venuzela is 1st with 1829.9 per 10M
- USA is at 29th with 33.1 per 10M
- Poland is at 60th with 0.5 per 10M
- Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Croatia are recorded as 0
Declaring something happens in every country with armed police Is asinine when it happens 55 times more in some places and 66 times less in others.
When there are countries with such a dramatically lower rate of security services killing civilians there are important lessons to be learned there, rather than throwing up our hands and saying something like
“well states will murder wherever states exist, don’t worry about it, it’s normal”. Edit: better characterisation in pupperdreams’ reply belowPretty much yes, among developed countries. But the USA is really a third world country by all counts, except for greed (economy).
“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.
