Dude, who even knows.

6th May 2022

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About police treatment of people “in mental health crisis"… if there’s a guy waving a gun around on the street and you’re making a judgment whether deadly force is called for, it’s unintuitive for "this is a madman who can’t be reasoned with” to be a point in favor of “no”.

  1. jambeast said: Like they found the most sympathetic possible version of the scenario (autistic child harmlessly flapping their arms) and exclusively argue about that, without considering the situations where the person is like, actually dangerous
  2. jambeast said: I feel like with arguments around this sort of thing, the types of cases people are talking about are never agreed on between the different sides in the argument
  3. kontextmaschine posted this
    About police treatment of people "in mental health crisis"… if there's a guy waving a gun around on the street and...