Armed man shot dead by police in Inglewood had schizophrenia, family says
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Police in Inglewood shot dead a man who they say was wielding a stick with a knife on one end. His family says the man had schizophrenia.

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He had a knife… on a stick.

I’ll need to see the video on this one, officers, but for now, mark me as damned skeptical that this killing was self-defense.

  • zaph@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    But it’s the right answer. If it’s not your job you don’t have to be willing to risk your life to save another. You’re asking an irrelevant question and you know it.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      What right do you have to expect someone else to do it, if you wouldn’t do so yourself?

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        10·
        1 year ago

        Every?

        No one is forced to be a cop.

        I wouldn’t jump into a fire either, but I’d be pissed if someone chose to be a firefighter and refused to fight fire.

      • zaph@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        What right do you have to expect someone else to do it, if you wouldn’t do so yourself?

        I wouldn’t fly a plane so am I not allowed to travel via air? I wouldn’t drive a bus so I can’t send my kid off to school on the bus? I wouldn’t teach children math so I shouldn’t let my kid go to math class? Make your question make sense please. I didn’t force anyone to be a cop and as far as I know, no point in the history of the United States of America has an individual been forced to be a police officer. If you choose a dangerous job you have to be willing to face those dangers. You wouldn’t trust a surgeon who’s afraid of blood to perform open heart surgery, why should I trust a cop who is afraid of a knife to protect me from thieves?

        Edit: missed a word