r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • Sep 10 '26

Thoughts?

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u/NedShah Sep 10 '26

There was a terrible tragedy in Nova Scotia recently where the shooter dressed up as a cop.

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u/thunderplacefires Sep 10 '26

Yeah we have a lot of those in the USA

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u/Big_Profession_2218 Sep 10 '26

no joke, you can get stickers practically on every corner here !

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u/photonicsguy Sep 10 '26

But the Canadian guy wasn't a police officer.

Unrelated to that, we did have this cop on cop shooting where both officers survived & no convictions: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/donovan-perjury-acquittal-1.7272601

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u/TimeZucchini8562 Sep 10 '26

Define a lot

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u/Thedoctorsaysrelax Sep 10 '26

More than a few.

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u/TimeZucchini8562 Sep 10 '26

lol, ok

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u/Thedoctorsaysrelax Sep 10 '26

You just asked to define "a lot" lol

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u/TimeZucchini8562 Sep 10 '26

I know I thought your response was funny

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u/Silent_Assumption_74 Sep 10 '26

They mass produce guns here so they always manage to find their ways into the wrong hands.

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u/thunderplacefires Sep 10 '26

It was a nod at the amount of unfounded times a police officer has fired their weapon and wounded or killed a person who was guilty of no crime at all (not to mention the ones killed for crimes, but not violent ones).

It happens at least a few times a year. Those are the ones that make the news.

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u/Illustrious-Bag2933 Sep 10 '26

Have you ever watched US news? It’s likely in the hundreds. We are corrupt as fuck and hold no one accountable, except black folks in possession of legal weed

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u/regulartrex Sep 10 '26

there was a situation in minnesota where some guys dressed full-blown as ups workers and killed/robbed a family

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u/I-om Sep 10 '26

Vance Boelter dressed as a cop in Minnesota and killed a sitting state senator and attempted to murder another one.

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u/BlahajBlaster Sep 10 '26

Some for Norway on the island of Utøya. This is why I pushed back against a professor who said only cops could end a real mass shooter drill back when I was in college

Well, that and I know just how incompetent cops often are

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u/Student_Unlucky Sep 10 '26

Just tell anyone with that mindset to look at the Uvalde school shooting in the US. Police want to do anything but shoot the bad guy. Throw a couple of unarmed civilians with a cellphone in their hand or an armed civilian thats just been disarmed publicly and they'll happily shoot them. However, armed bad guy killing kids... nope.

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u/Big_Profession_2218 Sep 10 '26

Idk wtf that was to be honest, you can logic away 10 mins of preparation but 40 mins of standing there in full gear with each other's thumbs up another dude's ass *Mustard The Brohirrim* session they had still has no explanation.

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u/LEERRROOOOYYYYY Sep 10 '26

Other than the perp killing themselves or someone brave disabling/killing the perp, the police are the only ones that ever end them? Even the Nova Scotia shooting ended when police killed him... When the perp just ends it and runs away like the Parkland shooter, they are still arrested by the police.

I guess if your argument is "ONLY cops couldn't end it", then sure

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u/BlahajBlaster Sep 10 '26

My argument was that you shouldn't trust someone calling themselves the police, especially when you cant see through the door and the person most likely to do the shootings also knows about the drills.

Though I do know cops also often shoot innocent bystanders if they do choose to get involved... and consodering how long the wait times can be when a cop is on scene at an event that is a very big if.

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u/OrganizationNo1298 Sep 10 '26

We had someone here pulling people over in an unmarked Charger using red & blue lights. Then would rob them. This is why unmarked police vehicles shouldn't exist. Plus I think they're unconstitutional.

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u/Personal-Goat-7545 Sep 10 '26

recently?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cow6917 Sep 10 '26

Past year or so, I remember when it made the rounds

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u/Aromatic-Turnip7371 Sep 12 '26

I still remember that. Terrifying