• Grayox ( Grayox@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      3 years ago

      A pig mag dumped into his police cruiser when an acorn fell on its hood cause they thought it was a gunshot. There was someone under arrest in the back of said cruiser.

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        3 years ago

        Then his partner mag dumped into the same cruiser as well when nutbag kept insisting he was hit.

        The partner at least asked “where where!?” a few times, but she still just empted a magazine into the same car a handcuffed, unarmed suspect was locked up in.

        Luckily both shitbergs couldn’t aim for shit and missed the guy with like 30 rounds.

    • The movies get silencers very wrong… It would be a bit louder than the acorn and sound much different (or about the same volume if the vehicle is really well soundproofed). The officer should have known immediately that it wasn’t from inside the car. If it was a downtown area where stray bullets are an actual threat, I might have gotten down and scanned the area for danger, maybe radioed the possible stray bullet and assessed vehicle damage after a couple minutes. And that’s just common sense, I have no real training whatsoever. But literally any kid who’s gone squirrel hunting knows better trigger discipline than that.

      • OpenStars ( OpenStars@startrek.website ) 
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        3 years ago

        Exactly this. Like, nobody is blaming the officer for being scared upon hearing a gun-sounding noise, that’s just common sense that they should be actually, but to empty the mag at… what? Without knowing what the target was? Or did he legit think that it was his car that was the threat?

        That said, it’s surely a tough job, especially for the pay and the danger. Which is all the more reason to train them at least up to the level of a kid going squirrel hunting?

        • That said, it’s surely a tough job, especially for the pay and the danger. Which is all the more reason to train them at least up to the level of a kid going squirrel hunting?

          Cops doesnt even break the top 20 for the most dangerous jobs in the US. Pizza delivery is more dangerous, and they dont get guns/vests/tanks/training/SWAT/etc. They also sure as fuck dont get the pension or huge OT pay, and abikty to break laws without consequence.

          Most cops dont even fire their gun in their career. This guy fired it at a suspect fully in his care, that he had searched, handcuffed and put in a locked cage in the car. He didn’t fire it once, he fired it at him a dozen times, and convinced his partner to do the same. They both shot at a man in their care and custody dozens of times because of a tree nut.

  • I think some of y’all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.

    To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the ‘all cops bad’ narrative.

    • Let’s say you’re absolutely 100% correct. Does that mean that claiming that you’ve been hit, diving onto the ground, and unloading a full clip at a handcuffed individual inside your own vehicle is the appropriate immediate response?

      • I was shot at once, and in the moment, you’re not sure that you haven’t been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it’s a real thing. It’s hard to explain how things happen in the moment.

        I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn’t afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.