juicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · edit-24 months agoCalifornia officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening toolwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoAren’t police carrying non-lethal stuff like tasers and trained in deescalation techniques that could be used to subdue someone without shooting them? Edit: not ‘desecration’, although maybe they are
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·6 months agoSome do carry batons, pepper spray, or tasers. All carry guns. Some might be trained in deescalation. Some might be trained in “killology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
Aren’t police carrying non-lethal stuff like tasers and trained in deescalation techniques that could be used to subdue someone without shooting them?
Edit: not ‘desecration’, although maybe they are
Some do carry batons, pepper spray, or tasers. All carry guns.
Some might be trained in deescalation. Some might be trained in “killology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html