• Mudface@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fleeing from the police should never be a justifiable reason to fire your weapon.

    The weapon is there to protect an officers life. Not as a tool of compliance

    • quantumriff@lemmy.world
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      When the town I lived in got tasers, we were told they would ONLY be a last resort, to keep an officer from needing to use a pistol to stop a threat. The very next quarter, their training mostly covered how to use it to get compliance from suspects…

      • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        When I was with an ex of mine, the cops were at her house because her sister got attacked at school, as I walked down to the house one of the cops saw me, put his hand on his tazer and stared me down the whole time he was there.

    • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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      This seems to be EXACTLY what the police don’t understand.

      But if I’m being honest, I think the system is setup intentionally so that they blur the line.