• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    8 months ago

    You know what’s fucked up? What the jumper was threatening (suicide) was a crime. What the police did was not (not in practice, anyway.)

    Sure, it’s technically a crime for them to shoot the guy, but one of them saw he was reaching for a gun. The police are protected so thoroughly by our broken justice system, that it would be largely an uphill battle to argue they deserve consequences for killing a “criminal”.