“Our condolences go out to the family of the deceased as any loss of life is traumatic to those that were close to Mr Huttle,” Sheriff Patrick Williamson said.
“We technically have to seem like we feel bad for someone here”
- I mean, he's not wrong I don't think. He didn't attempt to say that he felt bad that it happened. He was just saying that he understands and respects that the family of the dead guy will probably feel sad.

Absolutely zero talk about the actual traffic stop. The body cam footage must be quite entertaining up until it isn't...

Belongs in https://lemmy.world/c/upliftingnews

Larry David dot gif.
Too many traffic stops in the US are deadly for no sensible reason.
But fuck this guy.
- Cops and Jan 6th participant engaging in a gun fight
  Me - Let them fight dot gif.

As a famous Chinese Idiom says:
以毒攻毒 - Use the Poison, to eradicate the Poison
(Or in western terms: I used the ~~stones~~ nazis to destroy the ~~stones~~ nazis)
- This right white on right white violence needs to stop -Uncle Ruckus

Wow, that was a quick.

Final Destination: J6 Edition

Excuse me? Article says 2017?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
2021
- Yeah, author is confused. Later down the article it says 2021.
  Daniel Ball of Florida was detained for an illegal firearm possession charge, a case that predated but emerged from his involvement in the 2021 Capitol insurrection.
  
  Ah, honest mistakes do happen, glad I'm not the only one that noticed. Still, facepalm 🤦‍♂️

Was expecting most of them to go back to jail, but this makes sense too.

If this wasn't a Jan. 6th person, people would be all up in arms about this. Nobody should be shot during a traffic stop, there is zero reason to pull out a weapon unless one is pulled on you.
- I'll reserve opinion until the bodycam. Initial suspicion should always be on the cops, but this guy is a known insurrectionist and violent person so I'm not holding my breath.
- But being a Jan 6th person says a lot abot that person. I do believe he resisted arrest. I imagine a sovcit type of mentality, or worse.
  The other guy (from the other day) from J6 end up back in prison when they immediately bought arms after being released. The brain rot on these people...
  
  Resisting arrest also doesn't warrant death. This shit is out of control. I don't care if it's a piece of shit Jan 6th person or a black dude, or any other brown person. Nobody should die because cops have itchy trigger fingers.
- That's because context matters. I assure you, this individual celebrated whenever unarmed POC were murdered by the police. It's a bit poetic that this was his end.
- Would they? Or would they just not have heard about it? It happens about a hundred times each year, yet how many do we hear about in the news?
- This happens literally every single day. If it wasn't this piece of shit, then people would be doing exactly the same thing they normally do about injustice: jack shit.
- Considering he participated in a failed coup d'etat riot, I'm more inclined to think he pulled a gun.
  Might still be something awful that happened for no reason, but coincidentally, happened to an awful person. We don't know, at this point. But we know he was an awful person - so either way, fuck him. If it turns out the cops murdered him then fuck them too.
- Oh please, a small few will scream while the rest of America thinks it’s great that a VIOLENT DISGUSTING CRIMINAL was given EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVED.
  America is a sick place that revels in violence and killing.
- The account I heard says he did but they didn't specify if that was from the report in which case probably from a cop or if it was someone on scene.
- Did you read a different article than I did? Cause the one I read didn't mention the stop at all. Unless you read a different article on this already, there no information at all about whether or not a weapon was pulled. You assume there wasn't.

Hahahaha. Good. Rest in shit, asshole

"Ain't that a shame," the sheriff should receive a paid vacation to Hawaii. Hopefully, we will watch a video with popcorn and beer.

lol.

Got to hand it to the cops. They let the rule of law have an try first before dealing with it themselves.

Good.
- RISE CHICKEN

Two wrongs occasionally make a right, or maybe just a lack of a wrong, when they're pointed at each other in just the right way.
Still a bad system that needs to be fixed.

Let them fight

Gonna point to this one next time people want to pretend brownshirts and police are exactly the same haha.
- There is a very specific point, in the collapse of a democracy into an autocracy, where the "irregular police" that are loyal to the leader, and the civilian police who have to obey rules and restrictions and are answerable to a more-or-less-democratic system, merge and intermingle, and they both become in practice subject to the leader.
  We're right on the inflection point right now, on a knife edge. A lot of cops are Trump "supporters," in a general kind of way. Then there are a handful of sheriffs and other leadership people who clearly think they should be obedient to Trump instead of to the law. There are also a whole lot, though, who aren't. The people who are downvoting you are apparently ignorant of this whole distinction, and how vital and lucky we are that Trump and his people have decided to gratuitously pick a fight with the civilian police. That's a gift. It doesn't mean that the brownshirts won't overmaster and combine with the police in the end. But it's a rare gift in times like these for any obstacles come to the table that might make it less likely to happen. Let's not take it lightly just because of the fun and emotional satisfaction of screaming 'ACAB shut the fuck up' in the face of anyone who tries to have this type of conversation.
  
  All good points. I hope you are wrong that these two factions are going to merge but I definitely can't say it's impossible. But my point was more that people have been saying they're one and the same for decades and it's just a bad analysis.
  By the way, I still agree with the ACAB people that police are a harmful institution. But they're a different harmful faction than fascists and it's important to understand that. The fact that these factions sometimes fight is very important and useful to people who oppose both of them.
- It may not be a perfect circle, but there is a troubling overlap
  
  True. But I think the differences are also important to understand. Even the same individuals are going to behave differently when in a different context.

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