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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because I try and give everyone the benefit of the doubt; even people who reply with a condescending tone. I also acknowledge that people make mistakes and people's personal lives and professional lives are different things.

Seems like you are more focused on giving that doubt to the officer than the boy who was shot.....

Plenty of people go to a range and practice shooting. You're making a lot of assumptions about skill here that are entirely your own bias.

Lol, I go to the range to practice. You know where they put the targets on the dummies......not on the hands. Firearms are not nonlethal weapons, anyone with any training knows this. When you learn to shoot, you are always told to shoot center mass.

You are not allowed to go around and point a gun (real or not) at buildings.

Any what evidence says he was pointing at building? A phone call from some random lady does not validate him shooting a child.

What if I randomly called the police on you and told them you pointed a gun at me, where would you like to be shot?

There is a big difference between eye witness testimony (i.e., remembering the facts and identifying people) and inaccuracies in reporting (I saw a car driving way too fast, I saw a person rob my grocery story, I saw a person shoot someone -- these aren't things people often get wrong).

That is semantic reasoning, there is no inherent difference between the two. Also, people file false police reports constantly.

not touching it's loaded with biases, condescending tone, and disregard for the particulars of the situation.

Lol, like you don't have a condescending tone to your writing? The difference being is that your claims actually deserve condemnation.