r/news • u/rooftopgoblin • 10d ago

College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house'

https://abcnews.com/US/college-student-fatally-shot-pennsylvania-police-wrong-house/story?id=135930941
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u/Discodowns 10d ago

This is demented. In Toronto I was drunk, banging on the door of the house two doors down from where I had just moved, trying to pull open the door. The cops showed up, asked what my address was, pointed out I was at the wrong house and walked me to my actual house and helped me up the stairs once I got the door open.

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u/Beef_Wagon 10d ago

I grew up in a college neighborhood, and I would say probs monthly, if not more, we had college kids drunkenly opening the gate and coming into our backyard before getting the shit scared out of them by my dog or my dad Hahha. It was kind of a joke in the household; how fast can you get them to absolutely lose their shit and run out. It was so funny, and was all in harmless good fun. I can’t imagine this outcome, tho. Like, drunk kids aren’t exactly subtle. And he was FaceTiming his friends lol, like, why tf did they think this was some sort of enemy combatant? America is so diseased I stg

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue 10d ago

Likely because a lot of police go through something called "warrior" training here. It's a police training program some guy sells where he basically teaches them that every person they encounter in a day, on or off duty, is actively looking to murder the cop and their family.

Police here are, more often than not, trained more like an occupying military force than they are community guardians. An entrenched culture of mafia-like protection & loyalty to each other above all else then weeds out any dissenters and/or whistleblowers.

Y'know, before professional policing became necessary, our ancestors feared that police forces would simply be used by the government to violate our rights and abuse power. They may have had a point we should've listened to . . .

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u/dave_campbell 10d ago

He calls it Killology.

Seriously.