The video shows that Officer Mark Dial shot and killed Irizarry within five seconds of getting out of his cruiser.

  • Flying Squid
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    881 year ago

    Do… do you think all cops might be… bastards?

    • @Phoenixbouncing
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      Clearly enough are that this problem is pervasive accross several police forces. It’s clearly the case in the US, and we have a similar problem with the Police National in France (bizzarly, the Gendarmerie who performe policing outside the cities and are a part of the armed forces seem to have far less issues in this regard…)

      • Ragnell
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        @Phoenixbouncing Soldiers are more strictly regimented than regular police, I think. Hell, if you fuck up just a little as an MP you are out of that career field. Unfortunately, it’s because of a STRONGER hierarchy and if the leader goes bad they all go with him. Which is why when there’s war crimes it’s usually a whole unit committing them.

        Of course, there’s also the aspect where the Law of Armed Conflict forbids anyone in the armed forces from doing things that civilian police forces do all the time, like using tear gas.

    • @[email protected]
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      No. As an example (probably cherry picked granted) there was that video of the guy somewhere in CA that was shooting at cops and they tried really hard to get him to somehow get him alive.

      But maybe ‘institutional bastardism’? I don’t want to fault all cops as bad, because then you end up with any good cop deciding not to be a cop… which is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

      • @CountZero
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        41 year ago

        “any good cop deciding not to be a cop…”

        What the hell makes you think this hasn’t already been happening for years? Any cop that doesn’t fall in line with the coverups is fired or, rarely, murdered.