• @Ultraviolet
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      1 year 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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        181 year ago

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

    • @stoly
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      161 year ago

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

    • @cheese_greater
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      131 year 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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      111 year 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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        171 year ago

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

    • @cheese_greater
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      41 year ago

      Officer and ACORN are a dangerous aural combination to some folks