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My facts came from NPR, not Fox:
More Police Officers Died From Gunfire Than Traffic Incidents In 2018, Report Says
Not "strange"
My opinions are my own, not "strange"...
This thread poses an issue: homeless man shot in altercation with police.
As we ALL know, who have ever once had interactions with the homeless, it's that the majority have serious mental health issues such they cannot manage life at the level of applying for assistance (SSD), both acquiring the medications they need as well as regularly taking them, keeping a roof over their head (goes back to being unable to deal with applying for assistance) etc etc.
This leaves them homeless and uncared for... and means their police interactions are by and large far higher in number than the regular population - many people regularly call the police on the homeless most especially when they are having an episode related to their mental health.
This leaves us with an opportunity to discuss what could have been done to achieve a better outcome than a dead homeless guy...
My first thought is to not leave the homeless alone, homeless and uncared for - all the way around...
That would significantly decrease their interactions with police as a whole, and be something that is actually helpful not "strange".
Demonizing police, which seems to be your only goal... is simply hatefilled left-wing rhetoric and is unhelpful all the way around.
Good day. I'm now putting you on ignore, since you declined to end this line of non-discussion.
You’re avoiding directly addressing the only real point here - policing in the US urgently needs serious reform. You acknowledge this indirectly - your admission that police interactions with vulnerable people ought to be limited is a tacit admission that something is seriously wrong with how the police behave. To anyone outside of the conservative religious bubble, this is glaringly obvious. All the rest of it only represents attempts to ignore this reality and pretend it’s all someone else’s fault, usually the victim’s.
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