Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things
Owlboi@lemm.ee 3 days ago
reminder that “non lethal weapons” are actually just “less lethal weapons”. rubber bullets, tear gas and tasers absolutely can and have killed people.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was wondering, if someone shot rubber bullets at a cop, would they be charged with attempted murder or assault?
LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 days ago
In America, you can be charged with murder if the person arresting you has a heart attack.
nbcnews.com/…/charges-dropped-guatemalan-farmwork…
So shooting anything at a cop is most likely summary execution at the scene.
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You don’t even have to shoot anything. You don’t even have to be holding something capable of shooting something. The cop just has to say that from their perspective it kind of looked like you might have been holding something that could have been capable of shooting something and they’d likely be able to justify murdering you.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If anyone ever doubts this, go watch some police body worn camera videos. They routinely shoot people for things like this and get away with it. Then on videos where someone ambushes the police, the right wing lunatics watching will always say “See? This is why they are so jumpy!” as if it’s totally justified.