In the news

https://youtu.be/QdG6j4HAN-c?t=309

From 5:13

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter#Involuntary

That's the charge that stuck the last time this happened

According to CNN cop was a 26 year veteran and has resigned her post as has the local chief of police

All this Minneapolis stuff makes me really glad to live somewhere where institutional racism doesn't exist.

In other news, a serving police officer is jailed for kicking a black man to the ground, fracturing his knee in front of his children on their way back from laying flowers at their mother's grave.

https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/crime/policeman-jailed-for-gbh-7893492

If their training is anything like ours then at that distance you would fire two rounds, instinctively. It's drilled into you, no pun intended. So I tend to believe that she intended to Taser him but was inept and drew the wrong weapon. If she was being smart shouting Taser but intending to shoot him she would have instinctively double tapped. I was a firearms officer for 25 years and I would have to train like mad to do what she did, that badly, in that situation.
I've just re-read that and think it says what I mean. Basically she would have to be an evil genius to intentionally say one thing whilst doing another.

You fire twice to make sure it's lethal? Or because you might miss one shot or some failure with the weapon?

You're not shooting to kill you are shooting to stop.
You don't aim at that distance (up to 7 metres) as you keep both eyes open so you can see exactly what's going on. So it's called sense of direction shooting. At that distance anything can happen so if it has got to the point that you've drawn your weapon you want to have the best chance of stopping someone. Two rounds in quick succession will hopefully do the job. If it doesn't then two more. Bear in mind you are shooting at the body mass/chest. If the assailant is wearing a bullet proof vest and your rounds aren't stopping him then you shoot at the head until "he" stops.
With a Glock 17 between 8 and 25 metres you fire one carefully aimed shot.

I probably shouldn't be so interested, just very happy that someone else does that job so I don't have to. Thank you for the detail, really appreciated.

just very happy that someone else does that job so I don't have to.

And thanks to everyone in Blue who keep Airhead from becoming The Punisher.

Did lol

I knew I had asked to many questions, time to move and change my identity :)

We know where you live, we always have.

Definitely 'on the register'. I have a friend who joined the met a couple of years ago so it might appear to the casual observer that I receive a lot of police attention. Especially this year where we've only been able to meet in the street.

New lead commissioner for the Commission on Countering Extremism sure sounds a lot like an extremist.

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I though this was the Epic WTF thread when I read this.

Genuinely thought I was in the memes thread.

Feel like we should probably just merge the WTF and news threads at this point

I’d really have expected a more inclusive and conciliatory appointment from Priti Patel.

I mean sure, Priti herself is an extremist so what’s the big surprise? Probably there isn’t one, it’s just depressing how much of this shit they pull and how their colleagues in the press give them free rein to carry on pulling it.

Who is surprised that Priti Patel would appoint an extremist to lead a counter-extremist group?

https://youtu.be/xk4EMBXxG5A

Hopefully the momentum against her despicable policies/approach/nastiness around immigration, asylum and asylum-seekers will gain pace...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/14/priti-patels-detention-policies-found-to-breach-human-rights-rules

M&S sue Aldi over Colin the Caterpillar trademark infringement.

the coverage of Prince Philip's death the most complained-about piece
of programming in BBC history.

It must be good because every supermarket seems to do a version of Colin.

Dammit, you’re probably right. Now I’m going to have to go buy one.