The bold emphasis parts really sum up how these terrorists think. A student being so scared at the sight of them that they comply is “effective” to them. A person “trying to escape” is a huge deal to them (highest incarceration rate brain “country”). A special education student causing problems must be approached with violence. The solution is always to escalate and do more violence, instill fear, and when all else fails, either maim or imprison those who resist so they can be more easily intimidated and maimed.
It’s clear that with US cops, their goal is not safety or deescalation whatsoever; their primary goal is to protect themselves (the cops) even if that means hiding from conflict, and their secondary goal is to find people who are weaker / more vulnerable than them and escalate so that they have excuses to inflict violence.
But this is nothing new when we put it in the context of how colonizers go about colonizing.
They’re like “we only use them when there is absolutely no other safe option”. Two examples presented: a disabled student probably having some kind of meltdown and another “trying to escape after fighting with a security guard” which sounds like the cop probably picked a fight with him and the student was trying to deescalate (by getting the fuck outta there). In order for this to have worked to stop him running away, the cop would have had to tackle the kid first? Or is it enough to just barely touch them like playing tag.
On the down side, if the speculation about cops accidentally shocking themselves all the time were correct, we’d probably be finding out from these dorks. So they probably have a good trigger that doesn’t get activated unintentionally.
The bold emphasis parts really sum up how these terrorists think. A student being so scared at the sight of them that they comply is “effective” to them. A person “trying to escape” is a huge deal to them (highest incarceration rate brain “country”). A special education student causing problems must be approached with violence. The solution is always to escalate and do more violence, instill fear, and when all else fails, either maim or imprison those who resist so they can be more easily intimidated and maimed.
It’s clear that with US cops, their goal is not safety or deescalation whatsoever; their primary goal is to protect themselves (the cops) even if that means hiding from conflict, and their secondary goal is to find people who are weaker / more vulnerable than them and escalate so that they have excuses to inflict violence.
But this is nothing new when we put it in the context of how colonizers go about colonizing.
They’re like “we only use them when there is absolutely no other safe option”. Two examples presented: a disabled student probably having some kind of meltdown and another “trying to escape after fighting with a security guard” which sounds like the cop probably picked a fight with him and the student was trying to deescalate (by getting the fuck outta there). In order for this to have worked to stop him running away, the cop would have had to tackle the kid first? Or is it enough to just barely touch them like playing tag.
On the down side, if the speculation about cops accidentally shocking themselves all the time were correct, we’d probably be finding out from these dorks. So they probably have a good trigger that doesn’t get activated unintentionally.