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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Reddit is terrible as a website. But it still has the communities that developed there over years, and they are an invaluable resource. They are definitely positioning themselves to pull a Digg, but until the Reddit-killer comes along with a mass exodus (and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna be Lemmy unfortunately) access to those communities will entail dealing with reddit.




















  • So according to the article:

    • He had already shot at the police, and they did not know he was no longer armed when later they shot back
    • They attempted to tase him before resorting to deadly force
    • At the end, when capture was inevitable, he reached for his waistband and mimicked drawing and pointing a weapon, making this more of an intentional provocation to lethal force as an alternative to incarceration

    If the first fact is truthful, this guy is responsible for making the situation a matter of life and death in the first place. If the second is truthful, the police attempted to resolve the situation without causing undue harm. If the third is truthful, then why would you expect or even want the police response not to involve shooting first?

    Police do a lot of heinous things because we keep allowing them to get away with it. Maybe this situation was even one of them, if they lied about the facts. But if so, this article doesn’t support that position very well.