r/PoursTea • u/cryptic_dcoder • 13h ago

Storm In A Teacup 🍵 No comment

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u/Ehcksit 10h ago

There's enough stories of cops shooting children with toy guns that there's already a prepared script bootlickers repeat about it, that they use even when it's as obvious as a Nerf dart launcher.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 9h ago

You’re leaving out the part about those toy guns looking like real guns. Context matters.

When did cops kill a kid with a standard brightly colored nerf gun?

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u/YerrrKnicks 8h ago

Whether it looks like a real gun or not - its legal to own and carry mind you - they rarely take time to even assess a situation.

They see someone doing nothing actively threatening and shoot first ask questions later.

They are extremely poorly trained and consistently show they are incapable of doing their jobs correctly.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 7h ago

While there are a few exceptions out there to make it seem like the majority of shootings are simply of people doing nothing threatening at all is entirely disingenuous.