This is an absurdly bad-faith readinghttps://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1384976520045907968 …
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I think one other psychological thing this reveals is how people extremely quickly try to classify "good guys" and "bad guys" You decide who the "aggressor" is and who the "victim" is -- and any harm done to the aggressor is justified to prevent any harm to the victim
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And so people have jumped in and filled in all the blanks for this brief snippet of video over things you don't know There's a lot of reports saying the girl who got shot *called the cops* because she was being physically threatened
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And she armed herself with a kitchen knife because she felt unsafe I don't know if that's true, sure -- neither do you None of you know, you just have a video of a cop rolling up on a pretty nasty fight already in progress
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If you're that confident that this is a "good shoot" then it remains a good shoot if this is a crazy aggressive attacker lashing out at a friend for no reason, or if this is someone who was terrified in pain after being beaten for ten minutes and barely managing to get away
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I don't think most people *are* that confident -- I think most people weighing in to defend the cop have just settled on the first narrative as the truth, and don't want to think about other possibilities because it upsets their simple worldview
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The only reason to shoot instead of trying to break the fight up in a non/less-lethal fashion is because you don't think cops should have to risk their own safety to save someone else
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Which goes back to the fundamental paradox of American policing: Officers are heroes because they put their lives on the line, so how dare you expect them to put their lives on the line
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Yes. I totally see this as a dilemma. It is the officer's job to stop that stabbing. Its a child but they have a knife and are stabbing with it. May I never ever be in that spot.
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