• Nougat@fedia.io
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    Yeah! I want to run through a field at night pursued by armed police! That sounds like fun!

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    • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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      From the article:

      If the officers are not uniformed or armed, it defeats the goal of helping community members overcome fear of interacting with officers as they are, Mattson said.

      I get the logic, but it seems like there would be a better way to go about this. My primary concern would be if we’re doing this event and some kind of loud noise happens (like a gunshot/acorn). That seems like a recipe for disaster.

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        Seriously. Let’s give a bunch of armed men with trained PTSD (pre-traumatic stress disorder) the job of chasing people in the dark.

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      “Okay!” <paints their cruiser pink with a fake gold shield, pig snout, slaps on a curly-cued pool noodle, a cop hat>

      You wanted us to trick you right?

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    Cops play find the black kid all the time though. Doesn’t usually end well for the black kid, but still.

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      “I call it hide and seek, they call it resisting arrest,” one commenter wrote.

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    Well, the plus side is that people who want to know if they can outrun the local police will have a chance to find out that (probably) won’t result in them getting shot

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    I’ve often thought about how fun it would be to get to play the “robber” in a police training scenario. I’d definitely join if there was something like this happening in my city, though I’d prefer it to be a more serious excercise.

    EDIT: The comments here are even more unsurprising that the fact that the sun rose this morning.

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      What??? The sun rose this morning??? Well how long has THIS been going on??? I was under the impression that earth revolves around the sun, and the sun is a stationary flaming ball of scary!

      Guys…if the sun is moving, we got big problems on our hands…BIG problems…

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    There’s low hanging fruit, and then there’s the shit on the ground that ants eat to get drunk. This is maybe under that.