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This ^ should never have happened.
We've registered our son (despite my mis-givings) with the police as moderate to severely autistic, non-verbal, with slight cerebral palsy BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THINGS LIKE THIS to happen to him (as well as for other reasons, explained below).
The police in Canada seem to be much better trained (or more patient) than in the States, but we don't want anything going wrong for him in any encounters.
He is rarely out of our sight or hearing and we got him a Medic-Alert tag for his running shoes that can point police to his info (supposedly, they are trained to look for tags like this), but registered him with the local police to let them have INSTANT info if he ever did go missing (they won't have to wait for us to get them pictures and info: they will be able to access it from their site).
They will know his name, any nick-names he will respond (possibly) to, how he might react to them, how to get calm him down, that he will probably want to be hugged, etc.
We want him to be trouble free if found by the police (the school has let him run a couple of times but have always caught up to him eventually.... so far).
But what happened in the video above is disgusting. He sprays water at them and they taze him over and over and over and over????
WTF?
If that happened to our son, they would be seeing a VERY expensive court case and disciplinary actions and HELL FIRE RAINED DOWN ON THEM and have their asses plugged with cement if possible.
Never. ever. ever. should. have. happened.
*****
Just read the rest of the story: the down syndrome kid being asphyxiated by police and the other shit.
No charges were laid against the cops who tazed the kid in the shower?
My God.
How do these people go on in their lives.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Friday October 05 2018, @11:59PM (1 child)
I have wondered how much it has to do with the level of violence in the local population. It seems that places with large concentrations of rednecks (Texas, Florida, etc) and places with degenerated inner-cities (Chicago, Milwaukee, etc) have police that are more aggressive than in other locations. Aggressive population causes aggressive cops, aggressive cops causes an aggressive population, leading to a feedback cycle. Shootings seem to not really occur outside of major population centers or the south with any real consistency, and with how often cops move around I wonder how much cops which were trained/started out in cities end up causing problems when they move out to smaller cities/country.
As for the situation Gaaark brought up, I don't understand why an officer would ever need to taser someone who isn't attacking, isn't armed, and not showing any real aggression. A situation that happened locally a couple of years ago had a kid who called the police because his dad was on the front porch, really drunk, with a bb gun shooting at a tree and wanted to make sure a cop driving by didn't shoot him. The dispatcher sent a cop over, the guy shot the dad without a warning because he was "brandishing a deadly weapon".
I think as being a cop became a career you would go into for the money instead of something that you went into because you believed in the motto you have a group of people who don't give a shit about the community. I have always had much better experiences with old officers than young ones.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday October 06 2018, @12:54PM
Please elaborate on why offtopic, second paragraph seems to me to be very on topic.
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