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Can't wait to be shot by some psycho troop because he thinks I'm shoplifting toothpaste (that's now $20).
They're far more likely to take the toothpaste, your toothbrush, and your car from you and run them all over with a tank while gloating about how you shouldn't loot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNOI5JpDAY
I like how they crushed the wood too.
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the funny thing is, it seems like in most situations where an amerikkkan trooper and a cop interact, the cop is always way more unhinged and lacks trigger discipline of any kind, just panic. not that that makes me feel better about the military policing of the core, it just goes to show how psychotic cops are.
I remember reading a story about an ex-army guy that joined the police, who kept trying to de-escalate all sorts of situations, because a man with a gun wasn't too scary considering the wars he served in.
One day he attempts to de-escalate a guy that was attempting suicide by cop, it started working, but was taking a long time. Eventually, his PD showed up and shot the guy.
The army guy was eventually fired for supposedly endangering PD and civilian lives by not acting fast enough on shooting people.-
Wasn't it that he'd deescalated, disarmed, and cuffed the guy and another cop just shows up and executes the passive, already captured person?
Do you have any links where I could read more about this?
https://features.propublica.org/weirton/police-shooting-lethal-force-cop-fired-west-virginia/
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This is just going to be giving those trigger happy cops a promotion and more authority.
Not that the US military is good but soldiers have better training, clearer and better enforced rules of engagement, and generally didn’t sign up to brutalize the people of their own country (just others).
This is true outside of the US too. As a general rule soldiers are much more likely to get pissed off when you tell them to shoot at their fellow citizens than cops are.
The military is also sold as a way out for high schoolers with minimal job prospects. Probably a majority of US soldiers right now are in the military for the benefits and not for any patriotic/psychotic reason. Not to hand it to the US military or anything but the average private isn't evil the way the average cop is.
Yeah a solid half of the military hoped they’d get put in some sort of admin position, never leave the base, get college paid for and never think about it again
Is it really that low? I'd have said 90-95% weren't suckers.
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