Well yeah one are peaceful protestors, the other is armed. Cops get scared when someone else can fight back on an even playing field. Even if that somebody is a horrible monster murdering children. They didn't join the force to protect people they joined so people had to do what they say.
and to earn a lot of money + bragging rights
I may be being pedantic, but I wouldn't call a 1 vs 376 situation an "even playing field".
No you are absolutely right. Cops should have just stormed the room at that point. But they knew he had a gun and they valued their lives more. A cop's wife died while he fucken waited.
Because they know college protesters aren't armed.
Because they’re cowards. Violent cowards who revel in oppression. The worst kind of coward.
They're bullies.
Both the cowardice in the face of actual risk to themselves and the senseless use of violence when they feel safe against those who can or won't resist in a way that endagers them, are core bully traits.
College protesters really need to learn firearm safety and start open carrying rifles at their protests. But they all gotta do it. Can't be one or two random people.
Never forget that CA governor Ronald Reagan pushed for a law against folks exercising their second amendment rights to bear arms while patrolling and protecting their communities.
Those folks? The Black Panthers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control, as did the National Rifle Association of America.
They’re just like the IDF. They can only fight unarmed women and children.
Source, if anybody questions that fact.
Cops are gutless cowards who can only punch down on people who can't fight back; as soon as they meet someone who poses even a slight threat they cower away.
They are bullies. And bullies love punching down.
Hollywood spread police propaganda for decades about cops and detectives that are heroes, when in reality the majority are out of shape bullies.
I am basically afraid of getting on some kind of dissenter's list by up voting this one.
Yeah, they're bullies. They want to beat/kill unarmed minorities and college students for "not respecting their authority" (exercising their constitutional rights), not actually uphold the law. Cowards...
College protesters should have guns.
I mean sure but then we are absolutely asking for a massacre and internal war.
Guns only work if you are willing to use them. And once we are, we are saying we don't find police presence valid and the state comes crashing down upon you to end your pitiful existence for posing an internal threat.
We are a country with essentially a bad auto-immune disease that attacks whatever it deems as foreign.
everyone should have guns.
Says the guy sitting safely in front of his PC, never having been to a single protest. Sure buddy, you tell them.
Don’t forget the officer that NDd… for some fucking reason… while clearing a college building of protestors. WTF he had his firearm out in a less lethal situation is beyond me.
Maybe an acorn fell nearby?
What is 'NDd' short for? I'm drawing a blank, and searching for anything on the internet is pointless these days...
"Negligent Discharge."
It's used in the firearms community instead of anything with the word "accident" because there's almost never a reason for a gun to fire unintentionally that doesn't involve a serious fuckup by the user.
Any ND that results in death or injury should also be treated as a felony. There are 4 basic rules to firearm safety that should be followed at all times. Any one of them should prevent injury, so you have to fuck up all 4 at once to hurt someone.
- Treat every gun as if it were loaded at all times.
- Keep your finger away from the trigger until ready to fire.
- Do not let the gun point at anything you're not willing to kill or destroy
- Know your target and what's beyond your target.
The only true accidents I know of regarding a gun being fired unintentionally involve faulty weapons firing on their own (more likely to win the lottery), but even then they shouldn't hurt anyone because it should be pointed in a safe direction.
I think it's short for negligently discharged but it's kind of stupid to shorten that. I can't imagine what reason there is to not just write " negligently discharged".
Frankly I think calling it a "negligent discharge" is giving the officer too much credit. The gun shouldn't even have been unholstered. Guns are used to shoot not threaten. If he was pulling the gun out then he intended to fire it and if he pulled the gun out without intending to fire it then it wasn't a negligent discharge it was an incompetent booger hooking by a pants shitting coward.
Not at all wrong. I hate to use this word because it denigrates our wonderful lady friends (both bio and of choice), but cops are pussies. Like the ultimate ones. "look at me! I'm a badass cop gonna violate your rights! Back the Blue!" Let's see what my lawyer has to say about your "badassery". I thought so, bitch. Here's a coupon code for Dunkin. Go away.
The solution is clear, protesters and school shooters need to put aside their differences and team up.
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