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Ohio deputy killed by father of 18-year-old fatally shot by police a day earlier
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Maybe the cops should be a little more careful who they decide to murder.
The kid stole a car, and then was running away and pointing his loaded gun at the police when they shot him.
Allegedly. I don't know that it won't turn out, in the end, that it was actually his car, and it was a sandwich, and the officer involved had been fired from 3 departments and the cops lied about everything, and so on. But usually making sense of the world by just picking in advance who are the good guys and bad guys, and applying that to every single situation regardless of who's involved or what the details are, is a bad way to go.
The police, as an institution, have entirely lost the benefit of the doubt.
And the policy of "shot first" is not one I want to see in my civilian protection agency.