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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I think you can give underGRADFlame some slack for his first post. There wasn't much information at the time, and I think taking a wait-and-see approach with anything is fine.
I can't wrap my head around his second post though after finding out that the best case scenario was the officer was trying to kill an autistic man with a toy truck.
You know you've ####ed up when your defense is "I wasn't trying to kill the unarmed, non-threatening, arms in the air, respectful black man, I was trying to kill the mentally ill, toy truck playing, young white man." And even then that pitiful defense has holes as they cuffed the man after 'accidentally' shooting him. How anyone can even remotely defend those actions is insane.
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The more I read about this, it doesn't look good for the cop, looks like he really fd up, not once have I defended his actions in this, I just stated that I would wait for more info/full video (still find it strange that there is no video of the actual shot/s).
As for my second post, it was not directed at this incident as much as it is in general, which I didn't articulate well. People now believe the first social media post/news report instead of waiting for facts or the whole story to emerge. What's the saying "better to be first than be right".
The shooting in California of the unarmed white guy, a 20 second snippet is shown showing the cops shooting him on the ground, looks horrible, social media called for those officers heads on a platter, but finally 2 weeks later the body cam of the officers comes out and shows a completely different picture, showing the justification for the actions and force they took.
This happens because the police are actually governed to not release information right away until they have a clear picture, perhaps the solution is better communication from PDs. But they will never be able to release details as fast as the media or even close to the speed of social media.
I'm guilty of looking at these posts and making snap assessments too, it's human nature. Yes I'm pro police so I will come to the defence of police when I feel its needed, this one all I'm asking for is more clarity into what happened.