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Posted by Nilet on Tue Sep 2 22:52:22 2014, in response to Re: Unarmed, posted by Dave on Tue Sep 2 22:42:56 2014. Is the information accurate? That's the better question.It contains a grain of truth surrounded by lies— Officer Nicola Cotton was killed with her own gun by a schizophrenic man who, last I heard, was deemed incompetent to face trial and confined to a psychiatric hospital. However, the claim that this happens "every three months" is an exaggeration, and the implied message that police shootings should be excused as a matter of course is complete bullshit. Even if we accepted that a cop is killed by his own gun every 3 months, that's still a lot less frequent than the daily shootings of unarmed and innocent black men by cops and vigilantes which are already routinely excused without investigation. The story was heavily reported in The Times-Picayune four years ago. Yes, but the plural of anecdote is not data. So Sarge is correct and you owe him an apology. Nope. Pointing to one incident, claiming it's a pervasive problem, and using this made-up problem to excuse an actual pervasive problem is dishonest. My assessment is correct. |
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