On Sept. 12 at 8 a.m., came across a stopped vehicle with hazards on the left shoulder near John Hanson Highway and got out of his cruiser to help.

“Are you here to help her?” Sgt. Warrington asks the man.

“No, she’s taking me to the hospital,” he responded.

Moments later, he fires a single shot at the passenger who says he was getting a hat blown onto the road.

“Oh my God, what did you do? What did you do?” the driver screams out.

“He had a gun!” Warrington says.

“No, I don’t have a gun!” the man shouts, lying on the roadway.

  • @Zombiepirate
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    1443 months ago

    This is exactly why training the police as warriors instead of as civil servants is so insidious and deadly.

    • @[email protected]
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      273 months ago

      They aren’t “training” them. Certainly not as well as actual soldiers. But they are arming them with more and more military gear. If you were a high-school bully who never grew up or a racist who wanted to harass and maybe even kill a black person, what job would you get?

      • @[email protected]
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        143 months ago

        They are being trained.

        To escalate, that’s why they “need” all that military kit.

        • @Bacano
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          53 months ago

          They hire ex-cop contractor buddies and give them gobs of municipal money to do a ‘training’ session where they brainwash the entire force into thinking that they’re at war with an insurgency as dangerous to them as alqueda was to the military that so many of them came from.

          This is one of the reasons they’re so trigger happy. Right from academy they’re taught this, and any recruits who question it get dropped. One of the more famous programs is literally called ‘Kill-ology’.