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Pathetic. Seriously, I've encountered these kind of denialist reactions all over the place, and it so pisses me off. It's not normal for cops to shoot at peop
by bowlofpetunias 13y ago
Pathetic.
Seriously, I've encountered these kind of denialist reactions all over the place, and it so pisses me off.
It's not normal for cops to shoot at people in any civilized country ("not normal" as in "national news if it happens"), and for a country the size and nature of Iceland it's perfectly plausible (not to mention simply true) that this is the first time someone was killed by the police.
The ultra-violent American way of policing is the aberration here, not Iceland.
- vijayr 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforce... so far, in 2013
- markolschesky 13y agoWow. If you ever want to read something that's a major downer in the afternoon.
- buster 13y agoJust found the same article.. It really is a HUGE difference, wow. In 2012 there have been hundreds of killings in the US and below 10 (in a whole year) in either Canada or the UK or Germany. Now, i'm quite convinced that it's entirely possible noone was ever shot in Iceland (by police) until now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836944
- Pxtl 13y agoI'm Canadian. And I'm not saying it's normal for cops to shoot people. I'm saying that I'm working on the assumption that it has happened at least once at some point in the (googles) 69 years of the modern country's history. It will take more than one ambiguously-qualified offhand sentence in an article to convince me of otherwise.
- scarletham 13y agoPolice in Iceland are unarmed. [1] [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564