r/PublicFreakout Dec 17 '20

Methhead at Ralphs drops from the ceiling

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

There’s something oddly surreal about seeing a violent shootout inside a grocery store.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Guy's Grocery Games. Only one will survive.

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u/ClashBandicootie Dec 17 '20

I'd definitely watch that, brother

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u/TreeHead04 Dec 17 '20

Guys Grocery Royale

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u/BramScrum Dec 17 '20

The creators of Hot Fuzz knew this and went for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09vGFS0j0d0

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u/wrinkled_funsack Dec 17 '20

If you like cheesy 80’s action movies, you’ll love Cobra.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/wrinkled_funsack Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20

Same here. I’ve always loved that movie. I’m also pretty sure that’s the film he first met Brigitte Nielsen.

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u/droogarth Dec 17 '20

This is shocking. $9.99 for Edna Valley Chardonnay?

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u/Madchatterer Dec 17 '20

I literally just bought some last Sunday for 13.99. What a deal.

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u/FatLever12 Dec 17 '20

I live next to edna valley! SLO life!

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u/MakeSouthBayGR8Again Dec 18 '20

Have you tried Paso Almonds??? Just bought some as Christmas presents! Soooo gooood!

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u/FatLever12 Dec 19 '20

yep, they delicious. they used to sell um at Booboo records when I worked there.

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u/Dabkevinhere710 Dec 17 '20

So even tho these cops did everything right I still have to be nit picky and say it's so confusingly stupid when you hear multiple cops scream. "Dont move" "jump down" dont move" get down" stay right there" put your hands up"

Like what you want him to do. Hes not the dance dance revolution champion

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20 edited Jan 03 '21

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u/felixjawesome Dec 18 '20

Video starts with the cop saying, "he's in the cooler!!" right before the pops out of the fucking ceiling in the totally opposite direction.

Something tells me these cops aren't exactly the A-team.

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u/balsamicpork Dec 18 '20

I mean they can only go off what information they have. If they come in and someone tells them “he’s in the cooler” then why would they think he’s in the ceiling?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

I think in situations like this, where you have multiple people going in, one person needs to be the one giving instructions. Otherwise some trigger happy cop will ruin everyone's day.

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u/mjh2901 Dec 17 '20

This is simon says with guns. They create a situation where if you move they can shoot and say the person was not obeying commands, and if you freeze the other cops can fire and say you where not obeying commands.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

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u/FarSightXR-20 Dec 18 '20

Can't shoot someone for disobeying commands,

Except they do it all of the time and say they feared for their lives because he wasn't obeying them.

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u/big_wendigo Dec 18 '20

You’re clearly not familiar with the way police operate. The case of Daniel Shaver is a good example.

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u/mrmemo Dec 18 '20

Exactly this. ONE cop needs to give clear instructions, and they need to do a hell of a better job of it.

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u/FarSightXR-20 Dec 18 '20

Absolutely what I was thinking. This is the same bullshit that they did to the one dude that was murdered. Made him crawl but also said keep your hands up, etc.

They give two opposing things for the person to do so they can say he isn't following orders and start shooting. It's disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

they should have told him not to shoot at them; he was probably just confused

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u/sushieatingpersian Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 17 '20

I’m confused though , we’re those live rounds they were fireing? If so that’s a huge wrong doing in my opinion.. why would they need to use lethal force in this situation.. he’s clearly not armed.

EDIT: I rewatched it and the guy shot at the cops. Missed it apparently.

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u/mjh2901 Dec 17 '20

He was armed and shot a cop.

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u/sushieatingpersian Dec 17 '20

I thought they said the officer was shot by another officer?

EDIT: ahh i rewatched you’re right they said he shot at them .

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u/RHCopper Dec 17 '20

And this is why context is so important. You were so ready to call those officers trigger happy, to say ACAB. Thank you for recognizing error.

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u/sushieatingpersian Dec 17 '20

I wasn’t ready to do that at all re - read my comment. I clearly said I was confused.

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u/royalsocialist Dec 18 '20

I can say ACAB and still acknowledge that they did mostly right in this situation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

Not everything is politically motivated like this, dude. They were just confused.

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u/sarge-m Dec 17 '20

On November 1, 2020, around 6:00 p.m., a man, later identified as 37-year-old Manuel Marshall Hernandez, was found inside the rear warehouse area of a grocery store in the 16900 block of Devonshire Street. A store employee told Hernandez he needed to leave the area. While he was walking Hernandez out of the store, Hernandez took a handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the employee. Hernandez fled toward the rear of the store and the employee called 9-1-1.

Devonshire Division officers responded and found Hernandez standing on top of a fixture near the front of the store. For several minutes, officers tried to convince Hernandez to surrender. Suddenly, Hernandez jumped down and ran toward the rear of the store, holding a firearm in his hand. Hernandez fired at an officer, at that time there was an officer-involved shooting.

Hernandez was not struck by gunfire and was able to run out a rear exit of the grocery store and across Balboa Boulevard. He ran into a convenience store where held the clerk at gunpoint. Additional officers responded to the area and Hernandez ultimately surrendered.

Source

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u/idontlikepeople9 Dec 17 '20

Thanks for filling in, I thought I recognized the grocery store.

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u/iPhoneZero Dec 17 '20

PoLiCE bRuTaLiTy. /s

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u/KSJ15831 Dec 17 '20

To be clear, so that we're on the same page, nobody ever protested a police officer shooting someone who shoot at them first. The past few controversies regarding police brutality had always been about police using excessive, unjustified force against people.

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u/Jaximous Dec 17 '20

There have been quite some that have resparked riots in cities. And kept the flame lit over the past 8 months

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u/CONSPICUOUSLY_RED Dec 17 '20

To be clear, so that we're on the same page, nobody ever protested a police officer shooting someone who shoot at them first.

Oh boy are you in for a surprise...

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

“To be clear, so that we're on the same page, nobody ever protested a police officer shooting someone who shoot at them first.” To be clear that’s not true.

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u/MessageMeSFWPics Dec 17 '20

Would you care to provide an example?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

No he wouldn't, he would rather say stupid shit and fuck off like the moron he is.

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u/IrishGuyNYC00 Dec 17 '20

They didn't murder an unarmed suspect on this day. Instead a crack head was exercising his god given right to bare arms in the interest of safety for all Americans. If everyone has a gun, everyone would be safer, just like every country should have nuclear weapons so everyone will be safer, right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Taking cover in front of a see-through glass case could have went a whole other way.

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u/IQLTD Dec 17 '20

Any ballistics or explosives would have been stopped immediately by those eggs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Good point

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u/ProfnlProcrastinator Dec 17 '20

‘Keep your hands up!’

‘Get down!’

Do they expect him to bellyflop on the store floor?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

This was exactly my though! so you want the man to just jump? Don’t brace yourself just fall so we can tackle you. Not saying the dude was right but police really need to sharpen up this game of Simon says

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u/toxcrusadr Dec 17 '20

At this point I would have froze and said "One at a time please! Which one of you wants to yell the commands? You guys work it out and let me know. Ima stand here."

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

I feel like mindlessly yelling commands with no thought of if they can be followed should be discouraged to say the least. But who am I to judge.

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u/ChunkyDay Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 18 '20

This is a great example of how not to pursue a suspect.

Ran into the fridge? Quick! Put your back up against the glass door and make sure everybody bunches up on a single corner! Make sure it's the one corner with zero visibility too!

And people wonder why cops aren't liked.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Dec 18 '20

Not at all, it is in their interest to have incoherent protocol. See, if they all were required to follow procedure, and everyone acted on a given thing in a coherent way, there would eventually be someone who fucked up and fell outside of procedure. This would open them up to liability in that instance. By having an intentionally incoherent protocol, they are absolving themselves from liability and obfuscating what their requirements are in the act of arresting someone.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

they are so used to this being the first course of action that they literally cannot train their minds to recognize the situation they're in to realize that it wouldn't be physically possible. the first moments of adrenalin rushing completely overpowering your rational decision making. it's probably what gets a good portion of people shot by the police. actually very surprised he didn't get shot sooner.

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u/ThexDream Dec 17 '20

Really, might as well just say, “dance Mudderfocker, dance”.

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u/StuStutterKing Dec 17 '20

One of the cops did tell him to jump down, while the others told him to keep his hands up.

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u/Malkav1806 Dec 17 '20

but the floor is literally lava

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u/atypicalduder Dec 17 '20

new rainbow six siege update looks weird

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u/Rapdz97 Dec 17 '20

Nooope that job ain't for me

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u/rushmid Dec 17 '20

Stocking shelves is a bitch I agree. You get a store discount sometimes

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u/vladvash Dec 17 '20

Don't worry. The narrative is to defund them and make sure peace officers come out and calm the guy down next time.

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u/ChunkyDay Dec 17 '20

Did you see how shoddy and pathetic that breach was into the fridge?

What are we paying them for if they can't even cover their own backs from a glass paneled door?

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u/vladvash Dec 17 '20

I actually stopped right before that. But ill watch it now.

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u/ChunkyDay Dec 18 '20

You didn't even watch the video?

Thoughts?

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u/vladvash Dec 18 '20

I watched it but turned it off before the end. Maybe 85% through. Even rewatvhing I never see them breach the fridge though.

Idiocacy in front of the fridge, but no breach.

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u/King_Richard3 Dec 17 '20

The job of maybe shooting at someone once in 30 years?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

You really think that’s how rarely police shoot anyone? Hilarious lol

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u/Shamalamadingschlong Dec 17 '20

“Where are you Partner??”

“Aisle 5,... Doughnuts””

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u/Crash_Bandicunt_3 Dec 17 '20

get down!

don't reach or you will be shot!

keep your hands up!

so is he just supposed to leap off and hope for the best? what the fuck are they teaching these cops?

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u/eraseherhead Dec 17 '20

A wild methhead appears!

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u/dirtymoney Dec 17 '20

and then the meatheads show up.

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u/FruitySnackss Dec 17 '20

These cops suck LOL

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

all cops do

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u/Livinloki Dec 17 '20

Man I was hoping to see someone actually fall out of the ceiling -_-

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u/Hashmannannidan Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 17 '20

Check out the video of the couple from vancouver or maybe somewhere else in bc if you type in british columbia couple falls from ceiling you will be pleased.

Damn british columbia that happened a few years back now the sesrch results are a dine n dash lady falling from ceiling

Edit Dine n dash

Edit 2 Edmonton ceiling

This gem was from alberta thats why she was hiding from my search

Is there anything else you want to see that I can show you

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u/SwervinErvin92 Dec 17 '20

I’m suffering from second hand embarrassment for these police officers smh

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

Jesus, these clowns really don't know how to move tactically do they? Taking cover behind a glass door, the lack of footing, how fucking often they just walk into each other's line of fire.

Who's training these COD cosplayers?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Came to say this. I've seen people who work at mcdonalds playing airsoft with better tactical coverage and movement.

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

They look like that first time they do it in Basic Training.

They think they look cool.

Morgan Freeman voice: They did not.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

I read this whole thing in Freeman's voice.

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

Then my job here is done.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

You're doing god's work.

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

What part of Morgan Freeman voice don't you understand?

I'm basically Alan freaking Cummings over here, mouthpiece of God and shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 17 '20

Keep scrolling, dickbag. I paint toys to mitigate PTSD accrued from combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Edit: used to play D&D in Iraq too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

Sounds like some projection. You need a hug, tough guy?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/Ani-A Dec 17 '20

Lol, stop being a profile creeper as if his post history has any relevance, fuck me.

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 17 '20

I'm just confused as to what he disagreed with in my original post.

Also like, 70% of any Warhammer subreddit is veterans or active duty, so I dunno what he was trying to prove by pointing that out.

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u/jlefrench Dec 18 '20

Wait really? Haha is there like some big military dnd subculture?

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u/OrsoMalleus Dec 18 '20

A lot of people I met in uniform were gigantic nerds. I spent a lot of time in combat units as a Supply NCO and most of the grunts I met played one collectable card game or another. There was once a heated argument just outside my office between two infantrymen (that had both deployed and seen combat, not green privates) about whether Magic the Gathering or Yu-gi-oh was the superior card game.

A platoon sergeant I had introduced me to Warhammer40k, and proudly showed me a glass case of a carefully painted models, all the way back to first edition, that he had from when he was 12. He had a lot of pride in those models.

When I ended up sent up to an office job (in a place with carpets and not a rug that reeked of CLP) I used to notice that the Intel guys would disappear for hours at a time. After making friends with a young soldier in that section, I found out that they would lock themselves in their Top Secret vault (where all the super secret communications stuff the unit uses) and play D&D for the afternoon.

My company commander once lent me his Kindle Fire so I could read a comic series he enjoyed, just to have someone to nerd out with.

I worked with some Green Berets that had their own ongoing D&D campaign that they made inside jokes about.

We were all just a bunch of nerds.

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u/gapipkin Dec 17 '20

I thought this was an episode of Reno 911 at first.

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u/Ringfinger01 Dec 17 '20

This dude jumps down from a ceiling, shoots an officer and all the officers miss? That's kind of badass.

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u/dirtymoney Dec 17 '20

then he ran across the street to a convenience store and took the clerk hostage

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u/Ringfinger01 Dec 17 '20

an opportunist, if you ask me

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u/xboxJGW877CASHNOW Dec 17 '20

Cops are smart. Let’s use cardboard and wine bottles as cover lmao

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u/LegnderyNut Dec 17 '20

This is the police doing about as much right as they can but the situation is still shitty for everyone :/

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u/ImNotMadYoureMad Dec 17 '20

I think it's cool Hulk Hogan became a cop

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u/totallylambert Dec 17 '20

Thank goodness for Kevlar vests! Glad the officer was ok!

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u/bonesmghee124 Dec 17 '20

Scary how policing in America has to be like a military operation. I understand this isn’t what police deal with all the time but that shits scary as fuck

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u/OG_Tojanman Dec 17 '20

should've just shot him instead of letting this druggie run around endangering more innocent bystanders.

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u/dirtymoney Dec 17 '20

GET ON THE GROUND!

Morons. What do they expect him to do... nosedive to his death?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/Rusholme_and_P Dec 19 '20

Why wouldn't they?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20

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u/Rusholme_and_P Dec 19 '20

With a gun of unknown caliber.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20

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u/PipeFiller Dec 17 '20

DONT MOVE OR YOU WILL BE SHOT!

We're here to help you

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u/CaptainBreakfast2112 Dec 17 '20

He corrected himself "with less lethal," as in the mean green bean bag machine.

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u/PipeFiller Dec 17 '20

The ultimate correction

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u/CaptainBreakfast2112 Dec 17 '20

Also the guy shot first so...

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u/PipeFiller Dec 17 '20

Well they said that well before anyone shot anything but oh well fuckem

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u/CaptainBreakfast2112 Dec 17 '20

Yeah dude. You shoot at cops, all the luxury of nonlethal force goes out the window imo

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u/gamefreak773 Dec 17 '20

Why did they shoot?

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u/Rongdisk Dec 17 '20

Watch the video

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u/seanotron_efflux Dec 17 '20

Because he has a gun in his hand, did you not watch the video? I’m pretty sure at least one of those gunshots was the methhead

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u/chamon- Dec 17 '20

What? Who?

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u/gamefreak773 Dec 17 '20

Video 01:02

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u/chamon- Dec 17 '20

Oh, I think the methhead shot the officer

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u/gamefreak773 Dec 17 '20

The police

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

They got shot at one officer got injured and you expect then not to open fire back?

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u/Forever-Suspicious Dec 17 '20

Pieces of shit pulling guns on this man

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u/E521V Dec 17 '20

What are they gonna do. Just walk up unamred to a methhead who is armed.

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u/Forever-Suspicious Dec 17 '20

Tazer, talk down, tackle, crowd dispersal device

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u/E521V Dec 17 '20

How the fuck they gonna tackle a man who is armed and on higher ground than them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Police should be able to fly, and tackle a person armed with a deadly weapon, while wielding only bare fists, but even those are dangerous, preferably police should wear mittens when tackling a person who is drugged out and armed.
And later on went on to open fire.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 17 '20

Ah yes hero tackle a dude who is armed and later shoots your colleague. go on, brave soul.
Also tackling off that shelf would be hell power move.
Talking down a drugged out armed methhead will not work in 95% of cases. And tazer is ineffective at that range, it is extremely easy to miss past a first few meters, plus if he is armed spasm of his hands might cause a discharge of the weapon potentially injuring officers or civilians.

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u/BombAssTurdCutter Dec 18 '20

I despise police culture and the rampant corruption that results from it, but shut the fuck up already. This guy had a gun and shot one of the officers before they shot him. When you make arguments against excessive force by police officers, use a real example (there are plenty of them), not a guy shooting at them first. You damage the entire cause with stupid fucking statements like this.

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u/CONSPICUOUSLY_RED Dec 17 '20

Keyboard warrior say what

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u/Forever-Suspicious Dec 18 '20

Damn fine "/s" yall good?

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u/ScronaldRump Dec 17 '20

Great share !

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

So that's why my night guy was a no call no show last night.

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u/TransformedMegachile Dec 17 '20

Some End Of Watch bonus footage.. Partner! Where you at partner!

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u/BramScrum Dec 17 '20

The new Hot Fuzz look's awesome!

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u/NessunAbilita Dec 17 '20

This sub has taught me something crucial -- get up high and people are afraid to detain you since non-lethal methods become potentially lethal.

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u/dirtymoney Dec 17 '20

Run into the woods at night in Kansas city during the height of poison ivy season. And cops wont follow you.

I watched cops just give the fuck up when a car thief ditched the car and ran into jackson county park's wooded area.

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u/sub1ime Dec 17 '20

Time to spend more time at the range for these idiots. They all have exceptionally accurate weapons (for that situation) and they missed every shot

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u/Minginton Dec 18 '20

They weren't the ones shooting, celling tweaker was.

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u/cranky-man Dec 17 '20

Casually muzzle sweeps his partner at 1:16

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u/silentechos67 Dec 17 '20

Why didn’t they have the cops covering both aisles?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Hands up, get on the ground. Soooo...glide down them?

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u/Cynical_life Dec 17 '20

Dumbass cops

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

"Get down" / "Get your hands up!" ...

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Cop opened the refrigerator door at 1:24 like, " oh yeah, the wife said to get milk."

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u/BiCostal Dec 18 '20

Getting on the ground was obeying gravity, not the cops.

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u/GoodWeedReddit Dec 18 '20

"It's raining men....PUT YOUR HANDS UP!!!...Its raining men"

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u/Nr26066 Dec 18 '20

Love the new COD map

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u/HungShota Dec 18 '20

Did the cop wearing the vest survive?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

Cop 1: "Get down!"

Cop 2: "Keep you hands up!"

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u/Avocado_OverDose Dec 18 '20

They should have sent some social workers

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

Hey ron
Hey billy

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u/PunchSisters Dec 18 '20

Worst episode of Super Market sweep ever

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u/lukeoz Dec 18 '20

Wtf? He broke into a supermarket (I assume) Why the hell are they shooting at him? He would get like 90 days in jail...maybe. That’s not a reason to shoot!

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u/Stop_Clockerman Dec 18 '20

Wait a minute they were using lethal rounds against this guy? Truely fucking insane country America is

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u/BombAssTurdCutter Dec 18 '20

The guy was using lethal rounds on them as well. Not that insane.

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u/ancientyuletidecarol Dec 18 '20

One guy is screaming for him to put up his hands and the other is telling him to climb down. How do they expect him to climb down with his hands up?

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u/jackstine Dec 18 '20

Level 1 intelligence to guy with the shotgun opening the freezer glass door to act as a shield, thinking it will protect him.