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bassguitarheroMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:28pm
So if he shot the black guy by mistake, why did he handcuff him and not the autistic guy?
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  OMG!PONIES!bassguitarhero
  7/21/16 6:34pm
  Force of habit.
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  e36-burger-lordbassguitarhero
  7/21/16 6:39pm
  To keep him safe from getting in the way of any other bullets.
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99Telep☺dpr☹blemsMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:25pm
This is certainly one way to solve the problem of autism. I believe this country has enough guns to fully eradicate the disorder.
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  Starhawk7799Telep☺dpr☹blems
  7/21/16 6:27pm
  Autism Speaks....it also gets shot
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  PersephoneAlistaire99Telep☺dpr☹blems
  7/21/16 6:30pm
  I know/think this is probably a joke but it's really upsetting. I'm an autistic woman, I have a lot of austistic friends. A lot of us already feel like most of society thinks that about us, it's really painful to read that even as a deeply sarcastic statement.
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OMG!PONIES!Marina Galperina
7/21/16 6:28pm
Act like a thug and you’ll be treated like a thug.

Also, act like a law-abiding citizen and you’ll be treated like a thug. Act in compliance with police directions and you’ll be treated like a thug. Act in a manner to deescalate the situation and you’ll be treated like a thug. Act like someone surrendering to police authority and you’ll be treated like a thug. Act like someone who is unarmed and poses no threat to the police and you’ll be treated like a thug.

Basically, exist as a black man in America in 2016 and you’ll be treated like a thug.
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  Emerald D.V.OMG!PONIES!
  7/21/16 6:36pm
  Act like a thug and you’ll be treated like a thug.
  
  Enough about the police, though.
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  hntergrenOMG!PONIES!
  7/21/16 6:43pm
  Seriously, these days, I find myself saying “fuck this place” more often than I ever have, and I mean it more than I ever have.
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alpacalipsnowMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:26pm
Here I was trying to come up with the worst possible excuse, but this one has proven I’m way out of my depth.
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  OMG!PONIES!alpacalipsnow
  7/21/16 6:32pm
  I can’t figure out whether it is an improvement over when Mr. Kinsey reportedly asked the officer after having been shot, “Sir, why did you shoot me?” and the officer reportedly responded, “I don’t know.”
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  SaintClarence27alpacalipsnow
  7/21/16 6:32pm
  Me too.
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Emerald D.V.Marina Galperina
7/21/16 6:26pm
Oh, well that makes it all better. Whew, we almost had a problem here.
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  LetsgobowlingEmerald D.V.
  7/21/16 6:28pm
  We dodged a bullet.
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  Mr.Spaghetti! The Gentildouche YearsLetsgobowling
  7/21/16 6:28pm
  Pardon the expression.
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A_Copy_EditorMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:29pm
Only much later when we’re able to ‘Monday-morning quarterback’ do we find out that it’s a toy.

Unreal.

“You shot someone who was holding a toy?”

“Look the point is, he was holding SOMETHING. Jeez, anyone can be a Monday-morning quarterback.”

POLICE STANDARDS: GETTING HIGHER EVERY DAY!
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  Aperol SpritzA_Copy_Editor
  7/21/16 6:31pm
  To be fair, Kinsey had removed the orange safety tip. I mean, it does look like a lethal toy train without it, and they had to make a snap decision during that 10 minute stand off.
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  Modern Major GeneralAperol Spritz
  7/21/16 6:47pm
  Well gun nuts have assured me that if you ban guns, everyone will go around killing each other with baseball bats, tire irons, chunks of concrete, telephone directories and any other sufficiently bulky item, so I think they can treat toy trains as a lethal threat.
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jezbannedMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:33pm
It appeared to the officers that the white male was trying to do harm to Mr. Kinsey. The officers, realizing and believing that there was a firearm — many officers thought the white male had a firearm. Only much later when we’re able to ‘Monday-morning quarterback’ do we find out that it’s a toy.

I hope none of these fucking idiots on the scene is going for detective anytime soon. Did any of them notice that the guy who was “in danger” was desperately trying to tell them everything was fine, that it was a toy truck?
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  BIMming Itjezbanned
  7/21/16 6:38pm
  Yeah, but isn’t that exactly what someone hiding a high power rifle would say?!
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  bassguitarherojezbanned
  7/21/16 6:40pm
  Now this is a crazy Catch 22. If you believe, by default, black people to be criminals and liars, then if he’s telling you everything is fine, then he *must* be lying and be in danger. So that theoretically could explain why the officer still fired.
  
  Doesn’t explain why he handcuffed the black guy after “accidentally” shooting him, though.
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Gamblor JDMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:29pm
I knew brown skin attracted bullets. It’s science, not racism. All the Black Lives Matter people sure have egg on their faces today!
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  Bryan LevyGamblor JD
  7/21/16 6:31pm
  
  GIF
  
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  OMG!PONIES!Gamblor JD
  7/21/16 6:33pm
  Black absorbs light, rather than reflecting it. This incident, while regrettable, illustrates that light exists simultaneously as a wave, a particle, and a bullet.
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LordBurleighMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:27pm
I, ah, suspect that this police department doesn’t exactly understand why we’re all so pissed.
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  BCDFGLordBurleigh
  7/21/16 6:44pm
  This isn’t the police department speaking, it’s the union for the cop who shot. It’s very likely that this is to simply kick the blame laterally to the dispatcher, or upstairs to whoever made the choice to deploy an armed response.
  
  What’s really getting lost here is that the overall problem is that cops were called into a situation they clearly had very little to go on, and they didn’t work to get a better read on it. That to me shows a very bad culture that comes from the top —when you treat every incident where somebody *thinks* there’s a gun as a reason for armed response, then you’re simply trigger happy.
  
  And really, this is the consequence of stupid training of police forces, and that goes right up to the DHS and DOJ. We’ve created a scenario in this country where the feds have cops getting trained to swarm onto every situation that smells like a “active shooter”/”terrorist” with guns ablaze. Nevermind that spree shootings, terrorism, etc. are actually rare —much rarer than close calls or incidents involving the mentally handicapped or emotionally disturbed, where there seems to be zero federal training in how to not make a bad situation worse.
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  kemperboydBCDFG
  7/21/16 6:52pm
  A man with a gun is suicidal, we better get out there and shoot him.
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Ed SpockMarina Galperina
7/21/16 6:31pm
That’s the best you got?!?!?!

Jesus, put some more effort into your excuses.

Sincerely,

Your Average 5 Year Old
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  dolemiteEd Spock
  7/21/16 6:45pm
  “I didn’t know I couldn’t do that”
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  Endless Supply of CynicismEd Spock
  7/21/16 7:05pm
  I was trying to come up with a worse response and all I got was
  
  “It was on a bet”
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