Anonymous wrote:Maybe if civilians didn’t have so many guns cops wouldn’t be so afraid. 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is something. It reminds me of the fact that conservation incels are constantly posting about low-level crimes, smash & grabs, and no bail offenses. However no one talks about these mass shooters, majority teens, realizing that cops won't engage them anymore.

The Uvalde school shooter ran past multiple cops and a school resource officer to get into the school. His only protection was a locked door to the classroom and he still managed to get away with his shooting.

Cops are not willing to risk themselves for anything or anyone.

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Entire account - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1529687298094379009.html

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I literally want to vomit reading that thread. And that repeats itself over and over and over across the country. That thread has layers of relevant sht in it: the deification of cops despite the fact that not only are they human, but they tend toward cowardice just as often as regular people do. Maybe because they’re so poorly trained.* The fact that women and children are disposable in our society and that the police and GOP lawmakers reinforce this in a thousand ways. The fact that domestic abuse is an enormous predictor of gun violence (and is a throughline in all mass shootings; you can’t tell me the Uvalde shooter shooting his grandma was his first act of domestic violence because it wasn’t). The fact that Republicans are the most useless POSs and the reason, if I may use their religious framing, that we cannot have the heaven on earth that Jesus promised us was at hand if we took seriously his injunction to love one another.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if civilians didn’t have so many guns cops wouldn’t be so afraid. 🤔

It’s real mystery, isn’t it?

Fun story about coward cops, this time in Minneapolis. My sister was an apartment manager and someone called the cops on a mentally ill woman. As the woman with the keys, she was up in the hallway when the officers were going to enter the apartment and they told her, my untrained, non LEO sister to open the door because they were afraid the woman might have a gun. My sister handed them the keys (and witnessed them shooting the mentally ill woman). She had a knife but wasn’t coming toward them; she was having a complete break with reality and they just shot her without talking to her. (The 2nd anniversary of George Floyd’s death was yesterday, btw.)

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if civilians didn’t have so many guns cops wouldn’t be so afraid. 🤔

Anonymous wrote:This thread is something. It reminds me of the fact that conservation incels are constantly posting about low-level crimes, smash & grabs, and no bail offenses. However no one talks about these mass shooters, majority teens, realizing that cops won't engage them anymore.

The Uvalde school shooter ran past multiple cops and a school resource officer to get into the school. His only protection was a locked door to the classroom and he still managed to get away with his shooting.

Cops are not willing to risk themselves for anything or anyone.

Worth reading -

Entire account - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1529687298094379009.html

Police training starts in the academy, where the concept of officer safety is so heavily emphasized that it takes on almost religious significance. Rookie officers are taught what is widely known as the “first rule of law enforcement”: An officer’s overriding goal every day is to go home at the end of their shift.