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How often do calls about potential bombers result in police shootings? If your comment is in earnest, I think you'd be relieved to know that it's very rare, reg

How often do calls about potential bombers result in police shootings? If your comment is in earnest, I think you'd be relieved to know that it's very rare, regardless of the ethnicity of the people who are being searched/detained/arrested (feel free to ignore my comment if you were just going for hyperbolic cynicism) I remember the HN post about Marak Squirs getting arrested for homemade explosives going off in his apartment and AFAIK the police didn't killed him. (edited to make the tone a bit less pointed)

madaxe_again 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news. Ever hear of a woman called Breonna?
- Rebelgecko 6y ago
  >I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news Wouldn't Ahmed Mohamed be a counterexample, not an example? He has a "foreign sounding" name and there were no deaths or nighttime SWAT raids as a result of the bogus bomb threat his teacher called in. >Ever hear of a woman called Breonna? If you're referring to Breonna Taylor, I don't think she was accused of building bombs and no-knock warrants are an entirely different issue IMO from warrantless searches resulting from bomb threats. From perusing the wikipedia list of unsuccessful terrorist attacks [1], I didn't notice a single alleged bombmaker who was killed by police. Including many who were foreign-born and who were of African-American or Middle Eastern descent. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist_plots_in_the_United_States_post-9/11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
  - madaxe_again 6y ago
    You’re right, there’s definitely no systemic racism in policing in the US, you’ve proved it - congratulations.

madaxe_again 6y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news. Ever hear of a woman called Breonna?

Rebelgecko 6y ago
>I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news Wouldn't Ahmed Mohamed be a counterexample, not an example? He has a "foreign sounding" name and there were no deaths or nighttime SWAT raids as a result of the bogus bomb threat his teacher called in. >Ever hear of a woman called Breonna? If you're referring to Breonna Taylor, I don't think she was accused of building bombs and no-knock warrants are an entirely different issue IMO from warrantless searches resulting from bomb threats. From perusing the wikipedia list of unsuccessful terrorist attacks [1], I didn't notice a single alleged bombmaker who was killed by police. Including many who were foreign-born and who were of African-American or Middle Eastern descent. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist_plots_in_the_United_States_post-9/11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
- madaxe_again 6y ago
  You’re right, there’s definitely no systemic racism in policing in the US, you’ve proved it - congratulations.