From now on when I feel stupid I will make sure to remember I’m not this level of stupid…
That cop was way to squirrelly for the job.
Nah, if he were squirrelly, he’d know exactly what an acorn falling would sound like…
I’m GLAD this very Stable Man has a License to Freely Kill anyone he wants!
-Pro Life Republicans.
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The only thing more dangerous than a Florida man is a Florida cop.
Isn’t that just a Florida man with a gun tho…
No, it’s Florida man with a badge.
And yet the most surprising thing about the story is that the bodycam footage was released, smh
Of all the stupid that exists in Florida, they actually have pretty powerful open records laws.
It’s actually one of the reasons Florida has the “Florida Man” reputation. We know more about what’s happening there.
Not even close. The most surprising thing is that the cop resigned, by far.
He resigned when he knew he was going to be fired. Probably easier to look for a job in another department before the dust settles.
Likely to protect the cop/department too, since he shot at his own car that already had a disarmed, detained suspect inside. He very nearly killed someone that was already a non-threat. If the body cam footage got out it might make people think their cops are negligent or improperly trained! /ghasp
It’s like a business. If the liability rests with their officer and they are afraid of a lawsuit causing significant political blowback they are going to take action against the officer to minimize their liability. Hearing about an officer doing something like this and then leaving the force means there is nothing left for them to take action for.
If he didn’t resign, perhaps it would be slightly harder for the chief a town over to hire the guy, but since he resigned he may have minimal marks on his record.
I’d bet a thousand bucks this guy gets another job as a cop within 1yr though.
I’d bet a thousand bucks this guy gets another job as a cop within 1yr though.
I’d bet a thousand bucks I know which video they’re going to be watching in the morning briefing on his first day.
More like that it was on in the first place.
c/nottheonion
That’s nuts
Thank you.
I hope he’s oakay
Acorn hardly believe he didn’t kill someone.
Wow. Listen to those screams of traumatized neighbors as he continues to claim he was hit ~1:35/1:40 in. Can’t tell if it’s the other cop yelling at screaming people to stay back, or a mother yelling at her screaming child to stay back or what.
And that guy in the car - they’re just going to shrug and say “my bad” about the fact that if the cop was even the slightest bit competent with that firearm he’d be dead?
Top comment really nails it:
This is unironically the most embarrassing video I have seen in my entire life. I am not exaggerating at all. I would kill myself if there were footage of me acting like this. Dude gets scared by an acorn, does a Max-Payne-backwards-dive, unloads 20 roads into his own car (luckily not murdering the unarmed guy in the back of it), does some horrid Arnold-Schwarzenegger impression while crawling over the floor bawling his eyes out, and then forces an armed stand-off with literally no one. Actually absolutely insane, the most unhinged behaviour I have ever had the pleasure to witness.
He quit afterward. Probably because he was teased mercilessly by other police officers. If only we could harness peer pressure to reduce police shootings.
Imagine doing this and just being able to quit your job, meanwhile a citizen would be arrested and charged with a felony.
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“SHOTS FIRED!”
(combat roll)
“SHOTS FIRED! SHOTS FIRED! SHOTS FIRED!” (still rolling around)
(gets up, unleashes hail of bullets at the car with his partner pretty much directly downrange)
(slight pause, beat of silence)
(falls backwards into the road)
“Eaaahhh!”
(fires several more times, now lying on his side in the road)
"I’m hit! I’m hit!
(fires until his gun is empty)
(his partner asks something)
“What?”
“Ablbla! Abinica!” (crawling across the road now) “In the car! Ow!”
(catches his breath, taking cover behind a different car)
(after a while, his partner comes nearby, frantically asking if he’s okay)
“I’m good! I feel weird! But I’m good!”
“Dude, did I get hit?” Is probably my favorite line
As funny as it sounds, my understanding is that it’s often not immediately obvious in the adrenaline of a life-threatening situation whether or not you got shot. You have to kind of check yourself over and make sure because you literally don’t feel pain.
I’m going to be honest, there is a part of me that’s hesitant to be so so harsh on the guy, because it’s hard to say how you would react in (what you perceive to be) a life-or-death situation. It’s not unusual for people not to react well. There was one shooting video like that where the cop did something embarrassing and I had full sympathy and support for him (A woman pulled a gun on him during a traffic stop and shot at him, and he stumbled back and shot her, and he thought for a second that he might also have hit someone in a jeep full of people that was randomly stopped behind her. He was on bodycam just overall losing his shit from having shot her, not even understanding why she tried to shoot him in the first place, and thinking for a second that he might also have also hit someone in the jeep by accident. That I can have a lot of sympathy for honestly.)
That said, you need to not have this kind of reaction if you’re a cop. In a personal capacity I have sympathy for him; he learned he doesn’t have the right stuff for what he wanted to do; this humiliating display is etched in permanently as his legacy, and he has to find a new job and he’s just lucky that no one got killed because of him. In a professional capacity, fuck him and let’s all laugh at him rolling around in the road and wailing.
(Edit: Personally, for me the absolute peak of the comedy is when he half-empties his gun, and there’s a little beat of stillness, and then out of nowhere he just falls down and wails before starting shooting again. Again I shouldn’t laugh because someone could have been killed. But it’s fucking hilarious and I can’t see it as not so.)
My dad was in the military, and he got shot in the leg. He said it was the most painful thing that he’s went through so far, so I don’t know if I believe that. I bet this cop has never been shot in his life.
By most accounts it is definitely common enough that you should REALLY check everything, because adrenaline can be a hell of a drug. Like: people noticing a fairly small entrance-wound but being completely unaware of a gigantic exit-wound is apparently so common that I’ve heard that it is the very first thing you should check for in case of a shooting.
Everyone’s experience is different. Sometimes it’s excruciating, yes.
I bet this cop has never been shot in his life.
I would bet that this is accurate, yes.
It’s entirely like something out of a comedy.
Too far fetched fiction.
This sounds like a scene out of super troopers that would have been cut for being too unbelievable.
“save me Tom Cruise, save me Oprah Winfrey!”
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Our brave boys in blue, ladies and gentlemen.
There are 22 jobs in the U.S. statistically more dangerous than being a cop.
Cowards. So many of them are cowards.
Bullies are always cowards.
That’s why they form a gang, because the only way they can feel strong is if they outnumber you.
That’s why it takes fifteen fucking cops to “deal with” a single homeless person in a public park who isn’t bothering anybody.
If they do that during the day, with enough people around, people will whip out their phones to record the cops and the cops will give up and leave and stop harassing.
If they do it during the evening, and there’s not very many people around, and only one person whips out their phone… The cops will arrest the person who whipped out their phone, too, because they outnumber them.
- Small engine mechanics
Fatal injury rate: 15 per 100,000 workers
Total deaths (2018): 8
Salary: $37,840
Most common fatal accidents: Transportation incidents, violence and other injuries by persons or animals
What the absolute fuck?
- Small engine mechanics
Yep, and this is just tracking mortality. You would think, oh hey maybe they look better if you included things like workplace violence…nope. Pretty much 80% of work place violence happens to healthcare workers and social workers.
So pretty much every healthcare worker has experienced more violence in their work than police officers. I’ve had patients take swings at me in my hospital, it’s a fairly natural response to being in pain, on drugs, or disoriented. But just because your occupation has the potential to introduce you to a violent environment, that doesn’t justify your own participation in it.
I’m a very nonviolent and nonconfrontational person, but I once had a boil in a sensitive spot lanced without adequate pain control, and it took all my self control to not FIGHT it. Stone cold sober, knowing it needed to be done, my body physically wanted to fight the doctor to make it stop. It’s nuts to expect someone who’s not completely there for whatever reason to be completely in control of that instinct, but it’s what cops expect people to do.
Cops will taser or shoot you before you can take a swing at them. Healthcare workers and delivery drivers don’t get tasers and guns.
And the leading cause of injury/fatality for police officers by far: vehicle accidents. Not being shot at.
Also COVID for a couple of years there as they refused to wear masks in most cases.
Crossing guards being on a list with derrick operators and power linemen is a disturbing commentary on our road infrastructure priorities.
Virtually every main cause of death on this list is falling or getting struck by a vehicle.
Yes. A lot of them also involve being killed by the machines they use too. Safety measures can only go so far.
Looking forward to my next traffic stop so I can mention that crossing guards have a more dangerous job than cops 🫡
Barbers have a more dangerous job. People are very particular about their hair, and can run out without paying.
I’m so stealing this!
You missed the most dangerous job: US president.
1/10 of all presidents have been assassinated and 1/5 of presidents died in office
Are the numbers for warlord/dictator even worse?
Presidents Georg, who lives in white house & dies every day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Might as well climb K2. 1/4 summit to death rate.
If only cops had training.
Don’t think that applies here. If you need training to know that you shouldn’t open fire on a handcuffed man in the back of a squad car because you heard a light “thud” sound, police work is definitely not the job for you.
No, we should never hire people to be cops and then train them. We don’t do that with any other people who have command over life and death AND operate autonomously that I can think of except maybe some positions in the military. Even EMT certification is basically “you exist because we need way more EMT’s than we could possibly hope to have if being an EMT required a four year degree, and you won’t be reasonably expected to do anything other than what we train you to do”.
We should require cops to be well trained. Make it a four year degree at a minimum, and let the rage hearted idiots be weeded out in college when they fail all the ethical training courses.
To Serve and Protect
Nice Motto
Somehow thinking of this today, on the anniversary of Parkland.
I am loathe to use the word retarded… but I just have no other words to describe this.
This story has an extra chromosome. Florida Cop might too.
It’s a trauma reaction tbh. Huge red flag that they need to be in therapy.
He has no known history of trauma. He was, IIRC, a special forces officer that was deployed (Afghanistan?), but he never saw combat operations.
This is more likely the result of being trained that everyone is out to kill cops, that cops are the “sheep dogs”, and that they need to be ready to kill people at a moment’s notice (“Killology”).
If there is no trauma before the police academy, it’s created and cultivated in the academy.
Isn’t the training period only like a couple of weeks. I feel like that’s not long enough to learn to be a cop. At least not a good cop.
When I learnt to be a network admin, the training course was a year, and I’ve never shot anyone so clearly the longer training works.
In California it’s a bit longer, 3 -4 months. Still not really long enough, and aimed towards a certain type of person. It may not teach how to be a good cop, they will teach you to be in constant fear.
How is this a trauma reaction?
This is a big old pussy with a gun who doesn’t have the functioning braincells to think.
Being a cop is dangerous for everyone around you, not you yourself
Sometimes war veterans who have been in combat suffer from PTSD and react to loud gun like noises as if they are shots being fired. That is not the case here as it seems he did not take part in any combat while deployed but it certainly can be trauma.
Pigbrained
Is it lemmy.world filtering out words they don’t like? Who is censoring free speech? Why am I seeing removed everywhere?
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Lol
Your account is on lemmy.ml my guy, you’re doing this to yourself
I wasn’t aware that this existed as a feature for instance admins. I have learned something new today.
It’s your own instance what’s censoring the word.
Thanks for the info, TIL
