• @Ultraviolet
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      9 months ago

      Cops are trained to say that before shooting as a psychological trick to manipulate witnesses. Your brain doesn’t perfectly record the order of events in a situation like that, so to make sense of things you’re likely to misremember one or more of the gunshots being before the “I’m hit” rather than correctly remember that the cop shot first.

      • Pantsofmagic
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        189 months ago

        “It’s coming right for us!” -South Park hunting episode

    • @stoly
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      169 months ago

      Because he’s a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.

    • @cheese_greater
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      139 months ago

      He probably got it from South Park with the “its coming this way” defense for hunting out of season

    • @Death_Equity
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      119 months ago

      Reading the article is hard.

      … felt a “tingliness” all along the side of his body. He then said his “legs just give out” and he fell to the ground, assuming that he had been seriously injured by something.

      • @Jimmyeatsausage
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        179 months ago

        Sunshine laws…shit happens everywhere, Florida just isn’t embarrassed enough to keep it private.

    • @cheese_greater
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      49 months ago

      Officer and ACORN are a dangerous aural combination to some folks