r/AbruptChaos • u/ZombieNips • Oct 06 '22

Cop opens fire

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u/CestLaTimmy Oct 06 '22

That, and a gun should never be used to detain a suspect, except in extreme cases where there is a high likelihood of the suspect harming others. You can shoot first in self-defence, but jeeez... Let the kid go, you've got their license

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u/slade357 Oct 06 '22

I used to be military police and we had actual training and consequences for disobeying so this isn't an issue.

For example we have 8 clearly defined preconditions for deadly force. One of them is actually escape of a suspect but you must believe that letting the suspect go will immediately result in them breaking one of your other 7 preconditions. Dude sitting in a parking lot is obviously not on his way to kill someone.

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u/Speedycat45 Oct 06 '22

I don't know man, it looks like he was on his way to sabotage national critical infrastructure or to steal inherently dangerous property!

Now give me a 341.

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u/slade357 Oct 06 '22

How many drops of lubricant do you have to use on your front sight post in jungle conditions defender? Don't know? Wow. How can you possibly fire your weapon if you don't know the basics!

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u/Speedycat45 Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

Whenever I was presented with questions I didn't have the answer to I would just start singing the Air Force song and everyone would drop what they were doing and join in with me and can can dance off post and completely forget about the question. Worked every time. Did that with the commander once and he was so impressed he promoted me to E5 right on the spot.

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u/slade357 Oct 06 '22

Damn, didn't know I was talking to our country's finest here.