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[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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Can't really tell from the footage which one shot first, but it's impressive how easily startled these supposedly trained officers are. A single gunshot sound (almost certainly from one of their guns) was enough to make them all panic and shoot a downed guy half a dozen times.

On the one hand it's good that they're afraid, on the other hand fearful men with guns do shit like this. Hopefully they die by the bullet as they lived by the bullet.

Edit: on closer inspection I think the short green one shot the first shot out of frame, maybe got startled from the sound and dropped the gun? They're clearly not holding a gun when they run around.

Edit 2: turns out the guy was had a gun on him, apparently in the back of his pants. Looking at other angles of the footage, it was holstered (both hands clearly on the floor), then Grey goes in and clumsily picks up the gun. Right after that Black Balaclava Mustard unholsters his gun and shoots 4 times. Brown Hat Green-ish then gets startled and also unholsters, shoots 2-3 times as the guy is already on the floor, followed by 4-5 from Mustard. Certainly no misfire there, Mustard wanted to shoot him.

This is a reminder that guns don't protect people by themselves. The only way to protect anything with them is to actually pull the trigger. US concealed carry culture often fails to consider that, and this guy probably thought he would be safe.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 days ago

im pretty sure an ice guy misfired during that chaos and they all got startled and decided to execute the guy, fucking imbeciles.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are trained to be fearful and always on edge, "warrior mindset"- training.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 days ago

these guys are obviously not trained at all, they can't handcuff a single guy lol