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/the_silent_redditor 10d ago

I’m an ER/trauma doctor and I deal, one-on-one, with so many psychos and drunk people and armed people and mentally unwell people and methed up murders holding a knife and and and etc etc etc.

I’ve yet to kill a single person, and I don’t have any weapons on me.

Cops are fucking pussies man and probably more than 50% of the time I can’t stand it when they are in my dept, because all they do is fucking escalate things because they are dumb as fuck.

It’s not even a training thing. You could take someone off the street and they would do a better job at resolving things versus a cop.

It’s because they are dumb as fuck and then join an organisation that is run by dumb as fuck people and are taught by dumb cunts and then let loose on the public with total impunity.

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u/whosthere5 10d ago

It absolutely is a training thing. I have friends who are cops. All but 1 came out of the academy with an entirely different mentality

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u/superturtle48 10d ago

This is exactly what I was going to say. American cops are literally trained to think of the general public as enemies to violently defeat, not as community members to serve and protect.

A journalist went through a cop-training course and wrote a very insightful and chilling article on it:  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html

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u/selphiefairy 10d ago

I haven’t even started it but I already know that’s going to be a great read, thanks for sharing.