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Shoot first, investigate ourselves later. The lesson here is don't call the police? There's a good chance that you'll overpower the attacker than be rescued by undertrained police.
Sadly this is the reality of it, he was targeted simply because he was a man attacked by a woman and society is often as misandrist as it is misogynistic.
When seconds matter... The cops are minutes away
Life is cheap in the USA.
"After Brandon Durham falls to the floor the officer shoots him five more times."
Sounds like a fucking execution.
Typical day on the job for police then
Guy had some violent criminals outside his house trying to break in and hurt him and his family. Calls the cops. Now he's got an extra violent criminal with a gun who breaks into his house and kills him. Why does anyone call the cops anymore???
What else do you do? I get the point but who else deals with that if you can't? At a certain point you have to roll those dice right?
But a gun, learn to use it, call a lawyer then cops. Or gamble on the cops and going fisticuffs with a knife like this poor guy did.
Smash cut to Rambo over here in an actual perceived thread, tripping over his footie pajamas in the dark and shooting himself in the dick with the first bullet and his neighbor in the face with second. Then reveals that the "gang of migrants" "breaking in" was actually just mormon kids knocking on your door to tell you about home pest control service they are also selling on their iPads.
You secured the perimeter, dipshit.
Sure is a nice straw man you built for yourself to jerk off over.
a bunch of guys breaking into your house and you with one gun will probably have the same outcome
especially if you store it safely, locked in a safe, unloaded, ammo separate
Then store it safely, fully loaded, with one in the chamber.
that's not how responsible gun owners are meant to store it
I agree that cops aren't responsible gun owners.
Uh, no. Firearms are nearly pointless if they cannot be used.
Store it loaded in a quick release safe or hidden in such a manner that it will not be accidentally accessed.
Personally I blast a monolog sequence from an old mobster movie and then fire blank rounds of a tommy gun
And then give them to the count of 10 to get their ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump their guts full of lead.
Person that looks like they were just outside, with crime hoodie and all? Probably not the suspect. Some guy half naked in his evening wear? POW POW POW!!!
Shit like this will be the police's downfall, because once the people don't trust you, you're not a policie force, but civilian suppression force.
you’re not a policie force, but civilian suppression force.
Corporate has asked you to describe the difference between these two pictures.
As a person of color, we do not trust the police.
This is why.
I'm the whitest white guy who ever whited, but I don't trust the police for the same reasons.
About a year ago I had a very disruptive neighbor. Every night he would bring tons of women over and play loud music, and yell over the music with the people he had over.
Then, in the daytime he had a girlfriend, who worked nights. Every day she'd come over and they'd yell for hours and hours. She had a legitimate reason to be angry at him. He was the father of his child. He never married her, and in the 6 months he'd been a father he got 2 other bitches pregnant. Her words, not mine. On top of that, he was calling off work to invite MORE bitches over, and making up the lost money by pawning her jewelry. Which only got him $23 because the pawn dealer ripped him off. She says it was real gold, real diamonds. And the jeweler convinced him to sell for $23.
On top of that, he wouldn't even let her and his son move in with him because it would "clash with his business". Essentially he was just giving excuse after excuse after excuse.
Why she didn't just leave him, and sue for child support, I don't know. He was clearly using her. He didn't love her. They fought daily. Neither of them were happy. And as they fought, the baby cried and cried and cried.
I asked him to keep it down. Others in the building asked the same. His indoor voice was louder than most peoples "onstage without a microphone" voice.
In short, for 8 months it was a daily struggle to sleep.
But I only complained to the landlord. Never the police. When my sister found out, she couldn't imagine what I meant by "This isn't something to be resolved by the police".
My sister is a Karen. A real bad one. She wants all her problems to go away with a complaint from her to someone else.
But she never stops to put herself in others shoes. I restrain myself from saying I "hated" that neighbor. Only because I reserve hate to be powerful and meaningful. So I don't hate him. However I do think he was highly inconsiderate not only to his girlfriend/son, but also all around him at any given time.
A real "main character" complex.
Still though, I didn't call the police, because I didn't feel his inconsiderate behavior prompted a risk of death.
IF (any that's a big IF), If police could be trusted to arrive, handle citizen resolution in a fair non-violent way, then yes, I'd have called the cops. I certainly felt it was a job they SHOU LD do. It just didn't feel like a job they COULD be trusted to do.
And none of my family/white friends could understand why. All of my black friends did.
I never call the police for shit like that either. Some big animal is standing in the road? Sure. Car accident? Sure. If they’re already at the scene I’ll talk to them.
I’ve never seen anything get better in a heated situation because the cops showed up.
I grew up in complete chaos though. I seen my dad get beat half to death by them when I was a kid, followed a few years later by my brother being tackled and kicked at the bottom of our stairs.
My brother was a beast though, so I’m not sure anyone else could have controlled him that night.
He somehow survived being the beast he was and he’s a good father and a contributing member of society these days. Better than me actually.
As a European, I am sorry that the US police is incompetent and dangerous like this that you cannot trust them to handle these kind of situations and have to be afraid that someone gets killed. In other countries this would be standard case to call the police for, although they could only handle the disturbance aspect if there is no direct indication of violence or abuse
It sounds like there was child abuse happening. Imo, you made a mistake not calling the police.
Woosh af. Bullets dont solve child abuse social workers and crisis response do
Sounds like OP did neither. While I dont trust cops at all, statistically, it would have been better to make the call because they more often than not don't shoot people. And actually, yes, bullets would solve the child abuse problem, just not in a way anybody would want. Can't abuse a child if you're dead.
I'd absolutely roll the dice for the child's safety over the piece of shit parents life.
Im sure watching their shitty parents getting murdered in front of them would do wonders for their mental health.
You're making the assumption that there's a 100% chance that they will get shot. Cops suck, but they don't shoot 100% of the time.
One is more than it should be.
I agree, but potentially rescuing a child from abuse, to me, is worth the low risk. Inaction is complacency.
Never call the police why we all need to be armed. Seriously dude called for help and was killed in by the people who was supposed to protect him.
What they do to the lady who had broken in?
What they do to the lady who had broken in?
From the article:
Boudreaux was not hit by gunfire. She was booked for home invasion with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon child abuse and domestic violence.
I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up charged with felony murder because of the cop's escalation, though.
Pretty sure gender also came into play.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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