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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by swombat on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:19AM (#16041098)
I think this political escalation process is itself specific to the US... I think if it happened in the U.K. there would be no such outcry... just tributes to the innocent bystander and a nice funeral. Shit happens. It doesn’t have to always be someone’s fault.

Americans seems to be perpetually caught in a victim-aggressor-rescuer drama triangle...

Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by vidarh on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:17PM (#16042639)
Notably after most UK police shootings - and there's rarely more than one a year, sometimes years without - police ends up having to apologize and face demands for tighter rules, but the opposite rarely happens. There are occasional demands for police to be more regularly armed, but they've not gotten very far.
Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by mbesto on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:08PM (#16041310)
Yes I should have clarified that this is fairly unique to US culture.