I hope this is shitposting/satire. For anyone who doesn’t understand why Wayland was created, I’d recommend taking a look at this talk by one of the Wayland (and former X) developers.
Yes, Wayland has problems. But something like it was sorely needed. X is an unmaintainable pile of hacks built on broken assumptions.
They didn’t even finish “saying drop the gun.” And judging by the complete lack of return fire I’m going to guess that even if the homeowner was dumb enough to raise their gun at the cops, shots 2-64 were unnecessary and did nothing but place everyone in the next couple apartments in danger.
This whole story was ridiculous—the cops were completely in the wrong. They were responding to a call in one apartment and were told a different apartment had a window broken. They went to check it out, and this was their reaction. The woman they shot at was a friend of the apartment tenant.
The friend was shot 5 times and is lucky to be alive. These cops should never be allowed to touch a gun again.
I didn’t say I had faith in the system, I simply said what is happening. The end result is not yet known, and you are correct that there isn’t a great track record of police accountability in America.
Yes, I agree, it is a problem. I’m not arguing against you in the slightest. I have done nothing other than say the facts of what is occurring here.
There is a problem with police accountability in America, these cops were irresponsible, and an investigation is ongoing. I’m not sure what else you expect me to say that isn’t speculation or opinion.
This in no way excuses the ludicrous use of force by the police, but… They forgot the keys, so they broke their own window to get in? who does that? It’s an apartment, call the super? or a locksmith? Get called to a break-in, see signs of forced entry, see someone coming to the door with a gun… Yeah that’d be intense all right. Doesn’t excuse the police actions but dang. bit more understandable
It’s quite reasonable for most of Americans. Apartment managers won’t answer at night. The locksmith isn’t going to answer at night very often, and when you find the one that does answer it will be an hour or longer for them to arrive. Kick in the window, replace it with a half hour trip to the hardware store the next day. You’ve saved a half hour in total, and probably a large amount of money.
I broke the window in my friend’s place (hilarious story, not relevant here, totally) and it was about $20 at the hardware store for the glass, glass cutter, and caulking. Between the two of us it took about 15 minutes to cut the appropriate size of glass and get the caulk looking semi-professional. We aren’t talking a complete replacement of the window frame, paneling, cutouts, etc. We also aren’t talking anything custom or fancy. If you can point to a double-paned glass window or some extremely fancy one that exists in an apartment complex (in Houston, of all places, too, so you know multi-housing developments are cheap as fuck), you are going to have a butler ready to open the door for you and won’t need a key in the first place.
Oh, I didn’t realize you weren’t talking about a whole-ass window, that makes more sense for the price if you’re just replacing it with whatever glass you can find
Jesus Christ. Yet again a law abiding citizen is responsible for recognizing the police and responding in the exact right way in a split second. While the police are allowed to act like terrified wild animals.
I take that sentence back after seeing the run up footage linked in this article. This was nothing more than an ambush. They knock on the door and then move off to the side. They then open fire the second they see her. There was zero chance for the victim to even realize it was the police.
It’s legal to carry a gun in the US, but cops can execute you if you have one. Really surprised there haven’t been more reports of homeowners mag dumping at cops and then the excuse at trial could just be “thought it was a break in”.
The problem with that is they call reinforcements and kill you with overwhelming force. It’s really a no win situation once a cop panics and decides you’re armed.
If the homeowner had fired back, and killed the cops, they would likely be cleared of wrongdoing (eventually, like a loooong eventually). It’s already happened several times.
Yeah… I wasn’t too surprised as well… that many mags and that much force… I mean… come on, anyone with half a brain would have emptied like 5 rounds max and got behind something… to access the situation, try and get the other side talking or whatever…
But, in this day and age, stuff like this doesn’t surprise me at all.
That is not accurate. Someone broke into a different apartment and a neighbor said there was a window broken at this one. They went to investigate, and this was the result.
Per your second source a gun was found near the doorway and
“According to the Sheriff’s Office account in the video, the deputies went to investigate the reported break-in and saw “the front window screen removed, broken glass and the blinds raised, near the front door.” The deputies knocked, and one of them announced their presence. It is unclear from the body camera footage where the glass was broken.”
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