Someone from another country asked about American cops and what happened to them if they shoot an innocent in the line of duty.
I was tempted to tell then that when a police officer guns down a toddler in a baby carriage that they grab a case of beer and go back to the station and celebrate.
I didn't.
When you look at the big picture, there really are not a whole lot of police shootings. Shooting someone is the second to last thing a cop wants to do. The last thing, of course, is to get shot.
The hassle of the following investigation is enough to make any cop risk his life to avoid shooting at practically ALL costs.
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A lot of impressionable folks in other countries see America through the TV crap that we export to them.
ReplyDeleteThey also get fed a line of further BS (aka Propaganda) by their own Anti-Gun governments that we are somehow lawless gun-slingers in the USA.
It is not unusual to be asked "have you every shot anybody?" or "have you been shot?" as an American traveling overseas.
These folks are conditioned to want to be believe that USA cops gun down anyone they want all the time, rather than it being a special sort of badness usually reserved for shithole places.