juicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoCalifornia officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening toolwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1787
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minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-210 months agoAren’t police carrying non-lethal stuff like tasers and trained in deescalation techniques that could be used to subdue someone without shooting them? Edit: not ‘desecration’, although maybe they are
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·10 months agoSome do carry batons, pepper spray, or tasers. All carry guns. Some might be trained in deescalation. Some might be trained in “killology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
minus-squarekrashmo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoDesecration is definitely not the right word but I’m having trouble inferring the one you meant to use. De-escalation perhaps?
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoFYI, tazers aren’t “non-lethal.”
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·10 months agoThey are less lethal, but like far less lethal.
Aren’t police carrying non-lethal stuff like tasers and trained in deescalation techniques that could be used to subdue someone without shooting them?
Edit: not ‘desecration’, although maybe they are
Some do carry batons, pepper spray, or tasers. All carry guns.
Some might be trained in deescalation. Some might be trained in “killology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
Desecration is definitely not the right word but I’m having trouble inferring the one you meant to use. De-escalation perhaps?
Lol, yes!
FYI, tazers aren’t “non-lethal.”
They are less lethal, but like far less lethal.