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People disagreeing with my comment should realise I’m not saying that anything you could do would save you from the fate that Sarah Everard suffered. A determin
by tonylemesmer 5y ago
People disagreeing with my comment should realise I’m not saying that anything you could do would save you from the fate that Sarah Everard suffered. A determined rogue cop can still kill you. Anyone can kill you. The Met’s advice isn’t helpful. But moving to a busier area as briskly and unprovocatively as possible could save you.
- lovich 5y agoI’m again speaking from a US perspective but there is no situation here where moving away from the police is not considered provocative from their viewpoint. I would fully expect to be choked, body slammed, and cuffed if I attempted to walk away from the cops. I live in a fairly affluent area and am not a minority and still have seen local cops do things like start screaming at people for not maintaining eye contact, or in a particular notable event an off duty not in uniform cop who ran a car off the road and pulled a gun on them for not giving them right of way in a traffic circle. If you have cops that would let you move to a safer location after they interact with you, it’s nearly unbelievable from our experiences
- kawsper 5y agoThere's was a deaf man in the US that got shocked with electroshock weapon for not responding to officers, https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041562502/deaf-man-tased-police-colorado-lawsuit https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041562502/deaf-man-tased-pol...