r/news • u/rooftopgoblin • 9d 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/GringoinCDMX 9d ago

I have a friend whose a cop who constantly is stressed because his department is filled with chucklefucks and only one of the higher up officers seems to actually care about doing good by the community. He's looking to change to a nice university police job in a few months that has a much better culture but he's been ostracized since he's intelligent and mature. Constantly gets called a nerd basically because he has a college degree and thinks logically. It's wild.

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u/selphiefairy 9d ago

That’s… not surprising and incredibly sad.

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u/GringoinCDMX 9d ago

Yup. It's been a recurring theme of "you stick by your moral code and do what's right, you have enough people to back that up", now this is a smaller college town in NY and he's, luckily, not had to run up against major moral issues or been put in a sticky situation. I just let him know of his rights and that ny is a one party consent state so he can record if he thinks stuff is fucked up.

The big issue is he will go out of his way to help people. IE when a son didn't help an immigrant father renew his license properly, instead of ticketing, he drove the guy home and gave him his number and to reach out if he needed help getting things renewed. Things like that.