This is no surprise to most cops. It also conflicts with the left-wing narrative about police shootings.https://twitter.com/janecoaston/status/1131205172535939074 …
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That they result mainly from racist white cops shooting young black men who are just minding their own business or, at worst, committing mostly harmless petty teen hooliganism - as opposed to mostly arising from dangerous, unstable, unpredictable situations.
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I’m reading this as I respond to you so https://apnews.com/ce589240fb884eceab7eaba2bfdff9e2?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter …
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The logic here is to train cops to deal with mentally ill people—and I worked in an inpatient psychiatric hospital with both dangerous and non dangerous patients.
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Also, we don’t have to speculate about racist white cops—we have seen the tape too many times. I don’t doubt they are anxious and worried too—but the combination of shoot to kill of a black man (or child) who is unarmed is common.
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"This is the common pattern" is where the narrative collides with the data as well as the definition of what is "common" in a nation of this size.
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