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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by MaxfordAndSons on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:20AM (#23486792)
That's great that German police are trained to react that way. But American police are not. American police are trained to prioritize their own safety and survival above the safety and survival of suspects or even innocent bystanders. There's no consideration of intention or what information people are acting on - if there's a potentially lethal threat to the policeman, it must be dominated and suppressed.

So yes, with a practical understanding of how American police train and operate, this outcome is completely expected.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by mcv on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:43AM (#23487773)
> "American police are trained to prioritize their own safety and survival above the safety and survival of suspects or even innocent bystanders."

But they're trained very badly at that. They're trained to escalate, which endangers everybody, including themselves.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by hef19898 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:45AM (#23487362)
In the above case, the killed officer was already dead. Returning fire would have killed the suspect and maybe more officers. Not to safe if you ask me. Identifying themselves as police was the prudent thing, having done so upfront would most likely have saved an officers live.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by nicoburns on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:31AM (#23488085)
Isn't this one of the main things that people are protesting about. Police shouldn't be trained like this. They could also carry things like tasers which allow them to protect themselves without killing anyone.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by Zxian on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:12AM (#23489066)
Correction: while minimizing the risk of death. Tasers can still kill people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser...

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by nicoburns on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:14AM (#23489092)
They certainly can. But they're a lot less likely to than a gun. I think their use would be justified in the case that a policeman was being shot at.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by gpm on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:48AM (#23487394)
Being trained to break the law does not (legally) justify breaking the law.

I'm not sure if shooting someone in "self defense" who is legally shooting at you is illegal under US law, it's an interesting thought though.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by jacobush on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:46AM (#23488204)
There's precedent to say its legal to return fire.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by OGWhales on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:48AM (#23488817)
As an intruder?
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by jacobush on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:23AM (#23489195)
I can't really remember the case, but there was a standoff where a (white) person returned fire against law enforcement after they shot his dog. In the end I think one law enforcement officer was killed on one side, and that guys wife, child and dog was on the other side.

There was no punishment for the killing of the LEO.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by xyzzyz on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:56PM (#23490816)
The incident you’re referring to is Ruby Ridge. There has been much more disconduct by the feds than just shooting guy’s dog, and his acquittal did not hinge on the fact that they shot his dog first.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by jacobush on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:16PM (#23491020)
No, I didn't mean to imply it.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by neuronic on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:48AM (#23487395)
American police aren't trained. It's literally idiots on steroids watching 3 YouTube videos for "training" combined with some shitty version of some martial arts.

They are not capable of solving anything without authority, force and violence. Just stacked with military equipment and tools to escalate anything until a "suspect" breaks - mentally or physically.

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