Good points.
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Yup.
Rest easy, Greg. You will be missed, and remembered.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
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Mnemosyne says:
August 19, 2014 at 2:22 pm
@Cacti:
A few weeks ago, somebody posted a story about their ex-NYC cop acquaintance who had to be let go from her volunteer job because she kept expecting the teenagers she was working with to obey her orders without question. Apparently her training had been to demand obedience and compliance from everyone she dealt with during her workday, and any failure to comply was supposed to be met with a show of force.
To me, this is the basis of so many of these stories that we hear over and over and over again. It’s why we keep hearing about mentally ill people being killed by cops, people in diabetic shock being killed by cops, people staggering away from car accidents being killed by cops — they are demanding compliance and obedience from everyone they encounter, even people who are unable to do either one, and responding with deadly force if they don’t get it.
This is a huge, huge problem, and it comes at the basic level of training people to be cops. This has got to be changed. Yes, militarization, blah blah blah, but Wilson didn’t have a machine gun or any tear gas. He just had a gun and an expectation of being immediately obeyed or he had a right to shoot to kill.
Yup.
Rest easy, Greg. You will be missed, and remembered.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.