Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force
The first report from the Los Angeles police department about the killing of Jason Maccani on 3 February immediately drew scrutiny: an officer had fatally shot a man who had been “armed with a stick” and threatening people in a building on Skid Row, the department said.
LAPD’s update a day later raised new concerns: the 36-year-old Maccani hadn’t been holding any weapon, but rather a “white plastic fork”.
Body-camera footage released two weeks later raised even further questions about LAPD’s shifting narrative. The footage showed Maccani alone walking out of a unit into the building hallway, not threatening anyone, when seven officers approached with weapons drawn. The officer who fired the fatal shot opened fire within roughly 15 seconds of seeing him.
“Warrior Training”:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
https://boltsmag.org/warrior-cop-training-persists-in-minneapolis-despite-reforms/
Good video here, NSFW hilarious language:
ACAB
- They’re terrified
- They know they won’t face consequences
They’re terrified because their training is all about surviving an encounter with the most evil bastard ever to walk the earth. Even though the majority of cops go their entire careers without using a gun on the job, they’re all taught to have the mindset that at any second they’re about to be killed. Imagine trying to do a job that’s mostly about taking reports, writing tickets and marriage counseling with the mindset that every person you meet might be planning to kill you. They’re super jumpy, and often in contact with strangers. So, of course they’re going to shoot people.
Just as big an issue is that nobody polices the police. Their unions make sure they’re unaccountable. If ever a cop is investigated it’s by another “brother” cop. They have massive latitude for the use of force based on their own personal judgement. If they ever do something that could be considered a crime, they get to postpone the interview for a few days and consult with a union rep / lawyer before the interview. This means if you want to kill people, you can get away with it. If you don’t want to kill people, but you end up doing it because you were terrified of a black man during a standard traffic stop, you can also get away with it.
Because they’re bastards. All cops are. Hence the phrase.
It’s not “to protect and serve”
It’s “to intimidate and control”
Read it as “to serve and protect the rich and powerful”, and then it starts to make sense
Without reading- is it because all cops are bastards?
Because they’re scumbag fascist pigs who shoot first and ask questions later.
LAPD literally rolls up and starts shooting at people when they are the wrong suspect.
They’re a gang, just like any other.
Maybe it was an assault style fork
Actually, as you can clearly see, the food storage area was located behind the action (handle) area.
So the fork was technically a bullpup.
My dad was an attorney. Just to say: we are white. And he said this to me: Police have in IQ of 80. If you are pulled over, place both hands at the top of your steering wheel with your fingers spread. Be polite. Move only when they tell you to.
Break any of these rules and they will kill you.
This is what he told his white son. He didn’t trust cops at all. This was in the late seventies.
Because they have almost no training.
Because 🔫 you that’s why.
LAPD training program: https://piped.video/watch?v=ZqISLI2UQMY
Maybe if you start by having less guns in your country.
The description of the fork incident is pretty misleading. Maccani stormed up to the officers undeterred by multiple bean-bag rounds, holding the fork reversed so that it looked like a knife. Take 20 seconds and see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXjrS9bPQ4
A better trained / equipped group may have been able to de-escalate / disarm him, but – unlike many other cases – they didn’t just wander up and shoot him for existing.
