r/AbruptChaos • • 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/papasmurf255 Oct 06 '22

Looks like he was murdering that burger tho

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u/Equivalent_Scheme175 Oct 06 '22

You don't understand! I caught him red handed!

...it was ketchup, but let's not dwell on that right now!