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> Perhaps this is just confirmation bias though. I only get to read about the US cases where things have gone wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jea
by rangibaby 13y ago
> Perhaps this is just confirmation bias though. I only get to read about the US cases where things have gone wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menez...
- willvarfar 13y agoWhilst that is a harrowing case, it is hardly the same as the routine pulling of guns first and asking questions later attitude that you were replying to?
- rangibaby 13y agoThanks for bringing this up! I considered the same point before posting the link, but decided that it was appropriate considering (imo) that it is a product of the same 21st century paranoia and police culture of "shoot first, ask questions later".
- willvarfar 13y agoThese were officers who, at short notice, were staking out a suspected terrorist's flat just days after a bombing and during a national hysteria. It was a horrid chain reaction of errors, but it was hardly officers waving guns around to apprehend a girl they thought had brought beer?