In America police shoot bystanders around people not paying the 2.9 dollar fare.
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They can also shoot you if you are near someone who they think skipped out on the fare.
Or if they get the wrong address.
Or if they don’t like your skin color.
Or if they don’t like your tone.
Or if they just generally feel like it while their body cams are “malfunctioning”.
Basically, if you want to kill people with impunity, become a police officer in the US.
Cop trigger warning
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Don't forget pets, they shoot those too.
Or if you happen to be crossing over their town with cash in hand
I've killed people for breathing the same air as me. It's MY air goddammit.
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They can also shoot you if you're near the person who didn't pay the $2.90 fare.
In Capitalist America police shoot you.
they'll not only shoot you; but each other as well. lol
In the U.S. police can shoot you for kind of looking a little bit like someone else they want to shoot.
I'm not even sure they need the unpaid fare excuse tbh.
I live in NYC, and I read this story yesterday, and they didn't shoot the guy for hopping the turnstile / not paying the $2.90, they chased him and tried to give him a $100-150 fine; but the guy lunged at them with a knife.
The cops panicked and began firing because they don't have H2H training, and their aim is obviously shit. It's so shit, that I think they missed their taser shot as well before hitting random people in the crowd with their sidearms.
Not defending the police but the meme's a gross oversimplification. Those guys need more training and probably a suspension until they finish a full course of training, or a dismissal (or perhaps even up to and including manslaughter charges) depending on if the bystanders live or not.
I wish shit like this wasn't as common as it is. So many innocent people and dogs die each month due to police incompetence.
Isn't part of the controversy that its questionable there was even a knife involved?
Yeah, that part is bizarre
The police said on Sunday that a knife had been recovered and posted a picture on social media. The next day, however, it posted another message saying the knife had been taken from the crime scene by an unidentified man.
Officers recovered a different knife from the scene, thinking it was the one that the suspect had been carrying, according to the Gothamist.
An NYPD spokesman told the news website that the knife they picked up must have been left behind by another subway rider.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93y74xl1wvo
So they just accidentally recovered some unrelated knife, thinking it was the suspect's knife, while failing to recover his actual knife that he charged them with. I don't know what the truth is, but that story is genuinely ridiculous.
Escalating from a knife fight to a gun fight, especially with bystanders around, doesn't make it better.
A knife in close quarters is insanely dangerous. Using guns against an attacker with a knife is not really an escalation.
That said, the situation should never have escalated to the point where there is someone attacking with a knife.
Studies show that an attacker with a knife in hand has the advantage over someone with a holstered gun from as far as 21 feet away.
Not defending the police but the problem with them isn't that they're incompetent and they need more training, Joe Biden. It's that they need to not exist in the first place to terrorize people and chase them down for fare jumping to the point someone would be scared enough to brandish a knife. As if it's not unreasonable to fear for your life when a flock of pigs drop their candy crush and come at you because holy shit something happened.
Thx both of you. This meme seems to tell only one side of the story, but it seems to be very true.
Btw., you don't have to live in the US to experience police violence. I called the cops once to protect me from another cop.
Stuff like this makes me think memes like this are some kind of new form of propaganda where the idea is to make you made at a situation, but for the situation to appear to have no solutions. So you're just upset about stuff and want someone to do something about it.
Is that a robot? Looks uncanny.
It's Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.
Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.
she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.
It was a circle of rats eating children eating rats.
Why the fuck would you pull a train instead of just carrying the stuff? That is the weight of the stuff plus the weight of the train :D
Thanks for filling me in.
Now that she's over here, she tells outlandish stories about America to overly credulous libs, such as the time she was robbed and beaten by a black woman in Chicago, and then everyone gathered around her and called her "racist nazi" for calling the police.
Why do people use hand carts, rickshaws, and wagons?
Edit: cart to carts
Because of the construction of those. The structure in itself is leight so that the wheels have less friction and turn more easily than a heavy train which needs a power source like coal or electricity to work against that friction.