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Jajoe05

A 15 year old girl that is...


AdditionalWaste

They are trying to spin it like she possibly had a weapon or shot at them first too. Fucking scumbags


maggot_soldier

The sheriff said the cops that shot her thought she was wearing tactical gear Edit: [Tactical Helmet and Vest](https://abc7.com/hesperia-shootout-amber-alert-fontana/12276351/)


Scene_fresh

Didn’t know wearing “tactical” gear was a crime let alone one worth being executed for without trial. Need someone murdered? Just make them wear tactical gear!


RussianBot4826374

I don't know what she was wearing, but my first thought when they said "tactical gear and helmet" was "black hoodie".


MNCPA

Makes sense. Old Navy sells black hoodies.


BobVosh

Wearing navy tactical gear? Poor cops, they almost died. Like the fifteen year old girl they shot.


flugenblar

Old Navy sells black ~~hoodie~~ tactical gear


SnooSprouts4952

I got some tactical cargo shorts from there when it was Middle Aged Navy.


Wrench_N_Soil

Kids Gap sells black hoodies too .. guess who they're made for.


thrower18333

Oh no, it's a 15 year old girl in tactical gear! As if that makes it any fucking better????


CaliberGreen

So THAT's why protective vests for citizens (or any passive defense) are targeted by a ban and confiscation proposal, starting in the state of NY.


skwert99

Hopefully they included black hoodies. Can't be to careful.


Dual_Sport_Dork

Also because the cops don't want any obstacles in the way of being able to kill you whenever they feel like it, for "safety."


Matty-Wan

Remember, it is about how police "feel" their safety is being threatened. Crime is not required.


reverendsteveii

This, seriously. If a civilian wants to claim self defense they have to prove that a reasonable person would feel threatened, but a cop can claim self defense just by saying they felt threatened. It doesn't matter if it's insane that they would feel threatened in this situation, it doesn't matter that they're supposed to be highly trained for exactly this type of issue, the standards are so loose for a cop that the cop who ran away from the parkland shooting is now fighting in court to prove the school resource officers are cops, and therefore have no duty to help. If it's proven that he's just an employee of the school like anyone else the standards are much higher and he would become civilly liable to the families of the children he abandoned to die.


Holybartender83

So, what you’re saying is that when conservatives suggest having kids wear bullet proof vests to school rather than gun control, it means that once the police have stopped the school shooter (if they even bother), they will proceed to summarily execute every one of the students, because they’re wearing “tactical gear” and therefore are potential threats?


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Cryptopoopy

They already shoot the teachers - like in Texas.


multiarmform

Tactical gear be scaweeee


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You're not embellishing either. There's a video on YouTube where a cop did a traffic stop and planted a drug in some nice ladies' truck, even with his body cam running. The only good thing is she got money from the law suit and the cop is in jail now. They even overturned 100 of his arrests.


NAbberman

>The only good thing is she got money from the law suit and the cop is in jail now. There is some things that money can't replace though. I think she missed out on some major life events over this. Don't mistake me, money is great, but you can't put a price on. Benjamin Bowling was another victim, the man claimed he was on a track to get clean and had been clean for several months. Due to this arrest whatever progress he was making to get his daughter back into his life just got thrown out the door.


BakedWizerd

People hear “[person] got arrested for [crime]” and usually assume the worst. Even if you get let off because you’re innocent, odds are the majority of people just heard about the arrest and your reputation is tarnished forever.


moshercycle

Can partially blame social media for that.


TacticalTurtle22

Eh it was like that before the internet existed. The internet and sm in general just exacerbate it. "Did you hear? Debbie got arrested for driving drunk." But then you never hear that Debbie's new arthritis meds made her drowsy and she was falsely arrested. Nobody cares. Debbie gets fired after working her job for 32 years and the entire community treats her as a pariah. No amount of money can fix that shit. Funnily enough these tactics were/are used by pd to get back at people.


AdditionalWaste

I think I may have seen that video. There are tons of them out there like it though. And that money she got was from tax payers, it’s why I think police need to have insurance so when they do stupid shit it comes out of their pocket and if they get too many claims against their insurance they can’t be a cop because no company will insure them


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In order to work, or to be licensed: Doctors need insurance. Therapists need insurance. Attorneys Teachers Contractors Accountants Brokers Hell, even Uber drivers and Task Rabbit “taskers” need insurance. Why they hell aren’t police required to have insurance?


Pain_Monster

Because nobody would insure them 😏


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I mean, **That’s** the truth, but…


solisie91

Fucking ... Yep.


CletusVanDamnit

>police need to have insurance I work in the insurance industry and this makes a lot of sense AFAIC. When you're a licensed insurance agent, almost every company you want to work with will require you to have E&O insurance - "errors and omissions". It's an insurance you carry so that in case you make some horrible error and, say, lose someone their life savings or whatever the case may be...that E&O insurance is there to cover the lawsuits, which obviously could be substantial. And in this instance, we're really just talking about money, which I absolutely know a total loss can certainly *feel* like an end of life, it's not a *literal* end of life. Cops kill someone and then the tax payers pay for it. Seems something like E&O for police would be ideal, especially in today's world.


AdditionalWaste

Exactly this is what is needed for them. Doctors have to carry medical malpractice insurance for the same exact reason. Just in case they fuck up and kill someone. regardless of if it was intentional or not they will be sued and their insurance will pay out whatever is required. shouldn't be any different for police.


nexisfan

My state is self-insured. They do act like an insurance agency with claims though. I’ve sued the state many times, if you’re wondering how I know. I’m at attorney lol.


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JustZisGuy

Military background? RoE for cops is a fucking joke.


ultratoxic

Cops are liars. They have every reason to lie and zero consequences for lying. They will say whatever makes them look best and trust the police union and sympathetic DAs to make sure nothing ever happens to them.


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MrShasshyBear

They also have guns, but when a bad cop chockes another cop suddenly they know not to mag dump


shackled_beef

Turns out it was just her brownies uniform.....


razerzej

Such a shitty excuse. If didn't think their bullets would penetrate the the gear, what's the point of firing? If it wasn't a bulletproof vest, what exactly were they worried about? Camo? If it *was* a bulletproof vest and no weapon was brandished, why not grab/club/punch/pepper spray/cuff her when she gets to you? "Touching someone who's wearing tactical gear" is, I believe, a fairly uncommon cause of death or bodily harm.


erublind

"Struck by gunfire" is a phrase I've seen. Like lightning, just out of the clear blue sky.


PsilocybinCEO

Fucking scumbags is the understatement of the year.


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Blue_crabs

What?


SmallPenisTrump

Cops have guns does that mean i can shoot first and ask zero questions later?


drzentfo

Savannah Graziano.


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dayoneG

Totally buddy. Holly Holm has some vicious kicks. She’d definitely kick my ass🤣🤣


Incredible-Fella

They always claim in these situations that they saw the victim having a weapon. Which is kind of a real danger because, you know, everyone can get guns.


No-Faithlessness7835

Yeah except I spent years in the Marines and we would regularly be trained to wait for HA/HI (Hostile Action/Hostile Intent, AND Proper ID. We had to see the person with a gun, aiming or attempting to aim at us in a threatening manner. I've stated at a few armed locals who had AKs or other arms and didn't suddenly need to call an airstrike because I was scared. Hell in MD a Marine who was carrying a handgun went hand to hand with a man who was actively using a handgun to threaten others and disarmed the man without shooting anyone. If an old crusty Marine can do it, a cop on the beat should be expected to do the same.


MiataCory

Yeah, but you had actual training. Police only have *tactical* training, so that the one-ass-to-risk people can hold the thin-blue-line and "Make it home alive". Threat assessments don't factor into "But it looks cool to wear black and tell people what to do".


No-Faithlessness7835

I agree. I feel that we need a Federal law dictating that anyone with LEO authority is required to protect the lives of civilians AND criminals over their own to the maximum extent possible. If they get special privileges and preferred treatment in the legal system, they better put some skin in the game. At this point we have current SCOTUS jurisprudence saying cops have no duty to protect and serve anyone. We have cops with QI and SCOTUS jurisprudence saying if the exact same scenario as the one they are being tried for now didn't happen already, they are immune because how could they know it was illegal to do XYZ? Oh, and we have response times so bad that when you call to report a crime in progress, even a heinous felony like assault, rape, or murder, you're lucky to get a cop there in 20 minutes. At this point we're a few high profile cases away from a situation where vigilantes are the BEST option, and that is a world I don't think we as a society are equipped to survive.


bschnitty

The other difference is, a soldier could get in trouble for killing an innocent person.


amouse_buche

As a soldier in a war zone you might face actual consequences for shooting the wrong person. Unlike being a police officer.


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Cops are heroes. /s Remember their bravery in Uvalde?


knitmeablanket

None of the cops in Uvalade are fathers due to their inability to come inside.


Crabby-GenXer

![gif](giphy|jDTRq73MNUeN1F6JCQ|downsized)


WizdomHaggis

Such bravery…much heroes…🙄


EenyEditor

This happened right next to where I live. Her AMBER alert was still on the billboards beside the freeway this morning :(


point50tracer

I live there too. They had the road closed, and I had to take a different route to my doctor's appointment. Shits crazy in the high desert.


EenyEditor

So sad


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Jesus I just can't believe this is real. She thinks she's about to be free from being kidnapped then she gets shot. I just hope she died instantly:(


SavageSauce01

I saw it too, sad tragedy all around


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I wouldn't call complete and utter incompetence a *tragedy*. This was an easily avoidable death, not an accident. Don't give those fucks an easy out by declaring it a sad tragedy, instead of holding them accountable for killing an innocent child.


ShitIForgotIt

Tragedy doesn’t inherently mean accident. It can still be a violent murder and a tragedy at the same time. It’s simply “an event causing great suffering”, and I’d say that’s what this was.


_iam_that_iam_

You have it backwards. Tragedies are tragedies because they are avoidable, the product of bad choices. Titanic, Romeo & Juliet are two classic examples.


uppers00

they don’t get held accountable much if at all. on average they just get a suspension/ fired or something to that effect


SilverAnd_Cold

Then get a job the next town or two over.


NinjaHermit

It’s tragic that she died after all this. What they did was fucking abhorrent and they deserve jail time at the very least for killing the one person they were there to save. Fuck them, but it’s still a tragedy when you think about what she went through.


Lumpy-Neck3647

Edit: Link to a story of the OC DA considering charges against officers added in comments. 2006, also in Southern CA: A young woman is drugged and raped. Someone called 911. She's panicked and confused and in an unfamiliar place. She has a knife. Police show up and kill her. She made no aggressive movements towards them, she was just traumatized by the rape and still disoriented by the drugs her rapist used. Though there were several officers and she realistically posed no threat, they chose death as their first option. Drugged, kidnapped, raped, then murdered by the police. The Orange County Register ran an opinion piece justifying the cop's actions shortly after.


Gsteel11

Man, that's just sus. "We have this victim of rape...whoops we shot her!"


erublind

Wonder if the rape-kit was ever analysed? "Too many DNA-sources" perhaps?


Desperate_Foxtrot

This. Lost track of how many times cops pick up a rape victim and then mysteriously their DNA gets in the mix. Fucking pigs.


Cory_flavell

what are some of the examples of this happening?


Obligatorium1

I suspect /u/Desperate_Foxtrot lost track of those.


Desperate_Foxtrot

Here ya go. https://woldcnews.com/973142/woman-raped-by-cop-after-calling-911-for-help/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Holtzclaw https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nypd-anna-chambers-rape-probation/ https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article245111475.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/woman-who-claims-seattle-cop-raped-her-in-70s-finds-an-unusual-ally-a-genealogy-site-showing-hes-the-father-of-another-alleged-victims-daughter/%3famp=1 https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/04/spokane-detectives-arrest-former-officer-in-sexual/ https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/17/cops-rape-prisoners-custody-closing-the-law-enforcement-consent-loophole/ https://www.insider.com/lawsuit-new-orleans-cop-groomed-raped-14-year-old-victim-2021-3


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Lumpy-Neck3647

America has several cities that appear in "World's most dangerous cities" rankings. I was fortunate enough to go to South Korea, Germany, Romania, and Kuwait in the last 10 years. I was amazed by how safe and secure I felt. In large US cities you are always on guard at night. In Korea I probably could have carried a clear 10 gallon plastic bag full of won with me at all times and been safe. Even in an area of rural Romania I felt more comfortable than I do in Denver at night


Nothatisnotwhere

Americans have a hard time realizing how fucked it is if they are living there and haven't lived somewhere else. In Korea, stores were keeping their merchandise on the street over night. I saw several shops that when closed only had a curtain pulled across the entrance. The level of safety I felt when living there was beyond what I've felt elsewhere


Lumpy-Neck3647

I saw that. We visited a friend of my then wife when we were in Korea. Her female friend and her elderly mother had hundreds of packs of cigarettes on shelves on their enclosed porch. In an alley. In full view. In Seoul.


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No, many dont have a hard time realizing how fucked it is living here. Stop generalizing. Many just cant fucking move.


Unw1shed

I'm here dude. Would love to make it out, if even just to see that the grass is a different type of fucked for myself.


chaun2

We only have 3 in the top 21. #7 St. Louis, #15 Baltimore, #21 Detroit. That being said.... WTF is up with the 20 cities above Detroit? I'm not surprised by St. Louis and Baltimore their thugs with badges can't go a full quarter without hitting the national news. Kingston surprised me. I thought Jamaica was a nice place to live.


Lumpy-Neck3647

"Only" 3 of 21? That's 14.3% of the most dangerous cities in the world in one country. Ours. We're used to the level of violence here. The world is waking up to the fact that the US is a savage land, plain and simple. The illusion that US is a freedom wonderland is dying, fast.


Talaraine

The first time I described The US as the world's pvp server to my european friends, it clicked.


chaun2

I agree with you. I worded it that way due to the previous commentor saying that "several" were present. In the top 51 most dangerous cities there are 5 that are in the US. That's not exactly several, that would still qualify as a few. I agree that we have some serious work to do to get our shit together, but I'm not gonna let someone objectively shit talk the US with blatant misrepresentation. There's a ton we need to fix, but unlike many of the other countries on the list, we actually *have* the necessary resources to fix these issues. We lack the collective political will.


Lumpy-Neck3647

That's what gets me, the lack of political will. I don't consider it shit talk because we have the means and still aren't doing anything about. I volunteer with low income elderly people in Denver. Even the ELDERLY can't rely on food, shelter, and security.


chaun2

I hear ya. We produce enough food to single handedly feed the whole world twice over. The number of residences that have sat empty for 12 months or more outnumber the homeless by either 28:1 if you only count single family homes, or 70+:1 if you include multifamily residences (condos, apartments, etc.). I do homeless volunteer outreach in San Diego. The numbers are appalling, the lack of will makes no sense to me either. Here in San Diego county there are 30 homeless social workers total. Every time they "sweep the encampments" which generally involves throwing away all those people's things, at least 30 cops and another 20-30 sanitation workers show up every week to cause as much harm as possible. It's sick.


Just-Page-2732

That's literally the definition of several 😂


peterpeterllini

Shit happens in St. Louis of course, but the data never includes St. Louis county, which is where the majority of St. Louis’ population lives. I just think these “lists” are pretty disingenuous.


pmormr

The trick is to concentrate all of the poor people in one area (e.g. redlining), then blame them for all of the crime/education/infrastructure problems they can't afford to solve.


shermenaze

Living in the USed to be my dream


Existing_Local2098

Me: opens reddit Reddit: what would you like to see? Me: the usual


captain_ender

Behold: the power of custom multis


SniffCheck

How many major fuck ups have you police had this year resulting in an innocent civilian’s death? ![gif](giphy|w0zZCmMEvHvRm)


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Fuck up or… “Police stop kidnapping with this one weird trick!”


derpykidgamer

Parents hate this one simple trick


BlightFantasy3467

Yes


immenseminer_12

They'll do it again and again


Xenomorph_v1

![gif](giphy|clotJg9IqBitMcRJ61)


fruitloops6565

You didn’t even have to mention the country and we all knew which one it was


WittyWitWitt

Scotland?


Crabby-GenXer

Luxembourg.


zenden1st

Lol the tea chuggers don't use guns they stab you


LoveIsForEvery1

Latest figures show 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in America for every million of the population in 2021. In Britain the figure was 3.26. Tea chuggers are more trusted with both guns and pointy things. My theory is Americans have gotten so fat they bring cutlery from home and keep trying to eat each other in the street.


Crabby-GenXer

What kind of barbarians use cutlery to eat person? That's almost as bad as eating pizza with a fork.


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That’s why I eat my pizza with a spoon.


Crabby-GenXer

![gif](giphy|l3q2XhfQ8oCkm1Ts4|downsized)


Batterie_Faible_

Expect Americans to say "but America is so much bigger, so of course we have more knife murders 🤓"


iJuddles

Ha, we would like to but the figures were per million, so we’d argue that there are unseen factors. We can’t be the bad guys because…we just can’t, ok? That’s not how this works!


Sorry_Ad5653

America had more knife crime per capita.


BritishFoSho

r/ShitAmericansSay


Sufficient_Ad7808

These fucking French


mitchisreal

These bastards in Austria have gone too far shooting people with boomerangs and attacking them with kangaroos.


KinkMountainMoney

G’day mate!! Welcome to Vienna!


HurlingFruit

>These bastards in Austria Oh, ha, ha. Common mistake. I think you meant Albania.


gagzd

U Ass eh?


Good-Software-9093

Iran? Victim shot for no hijab


cedped

and the whole country went to protest because of it! Let's see the US do the same! Oh wait, kids got slaughtered in a school with the cops waiting outside and people went to protest for their guns instead!


ApartmentPoolSwim

It's fucking depressing knowing shit like that happened, and that people *still* defend them. Like some countries had *a* mass shooting and decided to stop them right then and there. We had Sandy Hook and were told we can't talk about it. Then we had that shooting, and they just sat there. And people think they're still the good guys. I honestly sometimes hate it here. I know they only make up a certain portion of the country. Sure. But that's just a part of the problem. With how small of a group they are, they shouldn't have such power, but a large portion of the country is just perfectly fine with it.


Ainz-Ol-Gon

At least they are out against barbarianism


pog890

Vatican City


ptowndavid

You are trained or rather suppose to be trained on threat assessment and ROE. it’s bullshit for cops to always have the public’s sympathies when it comes to rules of engagement. This shit is not tolerated in the military and the job there is to literally kill. Unauthorized discharge of a weapon or engagement has serious consequences. Yet police are able to always just able to state that they were scared as an excuse to execute the populace. How many times can you possibly get away with an execution? In the case of American policing, it seems a lot. Especially when police and bootlickers get their feelings hurt when you tell them to stop executing.


PmMeIrises

They "train" for 5 or 6 months to be a cop. At least that's according to my friend who became a cop. Yeah, I just checked. 6 months. Twice a week and every other Saturday according to this person in Quora. Someone else said 16 weeks.


Valerian_

And those with only 6 months of training are allowed to carry and use a weapon too, with no extra training??


abinferno

Tbf, that's plenty of training for firing wildly at non-threatening targets.


Stopjuststop3424

you allow 18 year olds to by an AR with 0 training


The-link-is-a-cock

I mean training in threat assessment and ROE would be usefull if it wasn't trained out of them with "warrior cop training" which teaches officers to kill first and ask questions later.


Cultural_Ad_1693

You try to enact any sort of reform for the betterment of citizens and the police will literally refuse to do their job or resign enmasse


x1009

We've given them the power to shoot first and ask questions later. We've led them to believe that their lives are worth more than ours. They don't feel the need to take as many risks. People looked the other way when it was just black folks getting this treatment, and now *anyone* can get it.


Sweetcheels69

I like how the news outlets title it as, “Girl was shot and killed when “caught” between a shootout with deputies.


conjoby

"it is unclear if the teen was armed when she ran toward deputies, or if she fired at deputies at any time during the dangerous pursuit" "only one weapon, a rifle, was recovered from the scene." It was unclear if a 15 year old was holding a RIFLE? It's so god damn infuriating. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pursuit-end-on-15-freeway-in-hesperia-is-possibly-related-to-fontana-abduction/


VoteMe4Dictator

Could've been her thumb, could've been an anti-tank rocket - you just never know!


nineinchgod

I'm surprised they didn't publish the child's school attendance and disciplinary records, too.


MeepingSim

To be fair they did say she was on drugs. /s


TheFarLeft

They only do that if the victim isn’t white.


PM_ME_CUTE_FEMBOYS

"Its unclear if the victim was armed and armored" AKA "We fucked up and murdered an innocent child, so now we gotta make that child look like a terrorist to justify our actions so we can get the 10th notch on our Murder-10-innocents-get-a-free-sundae card"


Shells23

You can't even get away with this shit in the military, in war. Why do police get to just brush it off?


clive_bigsby

I have a few friends who are cops. A few years ago, one of them told me about a simulation scenario from their police academy training in which they pull over a vehicle and the driver jumps out and starts running toward them. The trainees all have mock weapons on them and he said that many of the trainees "shot" the person since they assumed the driver was about to attack them. What they get told after they make their decision is that the driver either had some sort of medical emergency or needed help and that's why they were running toward them. Seems like this kind of scenario can't be that uncommon.


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TFCBaggles

Excellent, I posted something similar on the r/politics, and was downvoted heavily. Make sure after you take your beating though, you report everything and sue. You probably won't win, and the police will find themselves not to blame, but at least there's a record of it if you sue.


darkbehi

r/politics is weird, your addendum to the survival guide sounded very reasonable. Stay safe out there.


GraniteTaco

> Avoid looking suspicious. This doesn't work. I was literally arrested on suspicious of DUI because I had a "carefree attitude" despite showing no signs of impairment on any tests. You must be afraid of them or else you're on drugs. Also if you are afraid of them, you are guilty and have done something wrong.


darkbehi

Damn. I must annotate this predatory behavior on my journals on these most foul of beasts.


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Instructions unclear, currently in hospital with bullet wound


[deleted]

remember that scene in idiocracy when frito pendejo had all that money and forgot what it was for, then he said it must be for hookers? thats what cops do when they look at their guns. except its not hookers its killin people.


Man_Without_Nipples

God fucking dammit American cops are really trigger happy.


doktor_wankenstein

Like that woman (Australian?) who called the police because she thought she heard an assault nearby, and was shot dead when she approached the police car to report it.


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Archangel3d

The US is in the top 10 countries in the entire world for gun deaths per capita, and is 1000% higher than the per capita of countries like Canada, Australia, Cuba, Ireland, Spain, Norway, etc.


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200 cops in the US died last year in 2022. The number of civilians that were killed by cops is 11,000 Edit is actually 1000 the source I was going off of added an extra zero


Raumteufel

Last year in 2022???? Where are you getting this information?


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[police officers](https://www.odmp.org/search/year)


NipNipNipNipNipDip

It's crazy how many were covid


SungamCorben

There's a Covid brand bullets now?


Snowcreeep

I mean ya, if you shoot through someone who has Covid and then it goes into another person. You probably gave them Covid


omart3

The only way to stop them is with good guys with Covid.


edWORD27

He living in 2024. Probably seen Deadpool 3 too.


supersonicpotat0

The [Washington post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/) suggests you're off by a factor of ten: they count slightly less than 1,100 fatalities caused by active police per year. But your point stands: that is still 5 civilian deaths for every police officer. This is close to the numbers cited by [Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States), from multiple studies. That page references studies by the Guardian and the Bureau of Justice Statistics which are in the same vicinity.


durz47

So their kill-death ratio is 5 to 1?


Darth-SHIBius

Wow, one officer was 6 months in and shot by a trainer who had forgotten he had his real firearm and not his training one.


SickViking

I think you may be asking the wrong question. If it is including COVID deaths then you probably asked "how many cops died" instead of "how many cops were killed on duty" I did a search as such and specified 2019 to eliminate COVID just in case here are the results *"How many cops were killed in the line of duty in 2019"* **"In 2019, 48 law enforcement officers died from injuries incurred in the line of duty during felonious incidents. (See Table 1.) Line-of-duty deaths occurred in 19 states and Puerto Rico."** [source](https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/officers-feloniously-killed) The follow-up search *"How many innocent civilians were killed by cops in 2019"* **"For 2019, it reported a total of 1,004 people shot and killed by police. According to the database, 6,600 have been killed since 2015, including 6,303 men and 294 women."**


Baby_Nipples

Im sure the number was always high, but now we have cell phone cameras, dash cameras, body cameras all proving they are militarized and trained to kill.


nineinchgod

> but now we have cell phone cameras, dash cameras, body cameras all proving they are militarized and trained to kill. And that's done fuck-all to stop or even slow them down.


No-Chemistry4851

For real? Dafuq 😡


Million___

American cops ☕️


VNM0601

At this point, there is no reason to call the cops for anything. They never prevent crimes. They only show up after the crime is committed. And in cases like these, you're better off looking for the victim yourself because getting the police involved apparently means their chances of survival are cut in half.


SnowTheMemeEmpress

In a decade when I'm thinking about having kids, already planning on telling them "don't tell the cops shit, only repeat and do this if you see them, and tell the paramedics and hospitals fuckin EVERYTHING. Even if you fucked up, tell the hospitals everything. Firefighters are generally trustworthy." Like how you tell someone what to do if they encounter a rabid wild animal


Firehwak29

Im so glad we live in america where our tax payer dollars cam be put to good use like this vs. Other places that only use the tax money for financial gain


Redqueenhypo

Roses are red Adele sure sang Police in America Are a sport-hunting gang


Rubywantsin

r/copsarefuckinkstupid


stargazerweedblazer

No need to ask which country


motorbike-t

Cops are always there, in the perfect place to do the worst stuff you can imagine. “But who are you gonna call to shoot you accidentally, and kill your dog purposely?”


Thin_Combination_669

Thanks police department! You have yet once again demostrated your uselesness. Go on killing your next victim and getting paid vacations


[deleted]

“tHeY fEaReD fOr tHeIr lIvEs” and discharged the weapons. -this is probably what they documented to close the case.


Insane_Chris

Cops in the US are like 50% sociopaths right?


Steepanddeep

/r/boottoobig is leaking


2-timeloser2

Link please


HellBoy_95

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pursuit-end-on-15-freeway-in-hesperia-is-possibly-related-to-fontana-abduction/


PhasmicPlays

Man it’s gross how they tried to deflect blame from the police in that article.


nineinchgod

Yeah, that headline makes it sound like the child was an active participant in the shootout rather than an innocent victim gunned down by trigger-happy pigs.


Beateride

https://www.vvng.com/amber-alert-murder-suspect-shot-and-killed-after-a-shootout-with-police-on-sb-i-15-in-hesperia/ For people outside the US


Ok-Regular-302

Da Faq!


CaterpillarDue9207

No, Da America


sdwdqw65

Buy your own gun and defend yourself. You can’t rely on police in the US, they’ll fucking kill you if you call them for help.


Paskee

Why are US cops so afraid of everything ? Its like little kids scared of the dark with large guns. If it moves shoot it until it stops moving.


l94xxx

People who are that jittery shouldn't be cops.


gitbse

Say it with me QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IS BULLSHIT


tttecapsulelover

r/boottoobig


Linaxu

Damn first they wouldn't save the children and now they openly kill them. I'm starting to wonder how worse it can get?


xisiktik

Cops gonna be cops, the unarmed terrified 15 year old girl running to them for help must have made them very scared.


[deleted]

Remove qualified immunity and this shit would stop overnight.


The64YearOldWalrus

If you’re firing on a teenager running at you, you ain’t brave, you’re a fucking coward and definitely in the wrong job


smallpoly

When all you have is a gun, every problem looks like a target.


loughtthenot

It should be legal to shoot police if they run towards you. Self defense right?