Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

cops need way more training on not going to lethal force in the first place. but that’s a different topic.

Yeah, that tends to be my response as well. I usually try not to second guess a stressful situation where I wasn’t there, but all too often it really seems like lethal force is the goto response in way too many cases.

The example above where a female cop killed a junkie approaching her …. The post was intended to demonstrate multiple shots may be necessary, but what I saw was that after telling the guy to stop, the cops only option was lethal force. I’d really like to see some of these anecdotes show cops trying other options, even if it eventually escalated to lethal force

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