- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 32•7 months ago
I’m ootl, what’s the with the acorn?
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.
- mosiacmango ( @mosiacmango@lemm.ee ) 31•7 months 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.
- s3rvant ( @s3rvant@lemmy.ml ) English31•7 months ago
Solid photoshop to the bottom frame 👏
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@kbin.social ) 29•7 months ago
The only good thing to come out of this is that the cop quit. I hope he’s billed for the damage to the car anyway.
- SeedyOne ( @SeedyOne@lemm.ee ) 23•7 months ago
Guarantee he’ll be back on the force in another town by next year.
- Kiosade ( @Kiosade@lemmy.ca ) 7•7 months ago
That’s the funny part, he missed his car!
Edit: Apparently he did hit the car.
- Denvil ( @Denvil@lemmy.one ) 9•7 months ago
I heard he missed the person, but he missed the WHOLE ASS CAR?
Edit: watched the video, he definitely hit the car
- Kiosade ( @Kiosade@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 months ago
Oh damn guess people told me some bogus info. Glad he missed the person at least!
- ShortN0te ( @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ) 18•7 months ago
That’s nuts.
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@startrek.website ) English16•7 months ago
Uh… the gun has a silencer on it?
While that nut musta been LOUD!
That is extremely nice attention to detail that Pam is wearing a police uniform.:-)
- ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃 ( @name_NULL111653@pawb.social ) 11•7 months ago
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 ) English6•7 months 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?
- mosiacmango ( @mosiacmango@lemm.ee ) 9•7 months ago
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.
- OpenStars ( @OpenStars@startrek.website ) English4•7 months ago
Okay but you are using “facts” and “data” there.:-)
While in their defense, that nut was scawy, and they got their fee-fees huwt.
- notsofunnycomment ( @notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz ) 11•7 months ago
I totally failing to understand all the acorn references. What is going on.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 10•7 months ago
Pam would be a cop.
- AstralPath ( @AstralPath@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months ago
No she wouldn’t. She doesn’t have an aggressive bone in her body. Too timid.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 2•7 months ago
Exactly why she craves power and gets off on assaulting innocent black people when on the job. Don’t shoot the messenger!
- Aaron ( @aaronbieber@beehaw.org ) 5•7 months ago
Why the fuck would a cop do this??
Oh, Florida. That checks out.
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 months ago
nuts?
- andyburke ( @andyburke@fedia.io ) 15•7 months ago
cop almost killed a man because an acorn fell on the patrol car, just to make sure you’re up to date on the state of the US.
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 3•7 months ago
There is russian version with paper cup from 2019.
- BellaDonna ( @BellaDonna@mujico.org ) 2•7 months ago
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.
- DrSteveBrule ( @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ) 18•7 months ago
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?
- BellaDonna ( @BellaDonna@mujico.org ) 1•7 months ago
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.