How is this not bigger news?

      • khannie@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Is he a cop then? The cop car part is confusing otherwise. Uniform etc. not so much.

        Edit: I see elsewhere that the car was disguised too

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          15 days ago

          “Disguised” we’ve willingly made police cars so obscure they don’t stand out anymore. Here in Maine every car could be a cop car.

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            15 days ago

            In Minnesota?

            Cop cars are very distinct. Big white and black SUVs with guard rails and big ass lights. They look like they’re going to run you over fun. I call em intimidation transports.

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              We have three different colors of Ford escapes with very discreet light bars. They look like every other fucking Ford escape on the road or whatever those stupid SUVs are. So every Karen looks like a cop and every cop looks like a Karen.

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                Yeah I’ve been looking at them since @LilBOkChoy said something. They must be newer. They are quite literally impossible to see.

                Seems appropriate for a police state though. China must be jelly of them

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                  It’s just funny watching the citizens make their cars more like cop cars too. I shit my pants a little bit speeding and then notice it’s not a cop riding my ass it’s just granny trying to race to an early grave

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          Tell me you don’t know what qualified immunity is without telling me you don’t know that qualified immunity is.

          Edit: Seems like a lot of people don’t know what qualified immunity is.

          Qualified immunity means a cop can’t be personally liable in civil litigation for legal actions taken while doing their job.

          It has nothing to do criminal prosecution when they break the law. It basically just means you have to sue the police department, not the cop.

          • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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            15 days ago

            Tell me you didn’t get the joke without telling me.

            Qualified immunity

            A significant amount of criticism contends that qualified immunity allows police brutality to go unpunished.[6] Legal researchers Amir H. Ali and Emily Clark, for instance, have argued that “qualified immunity permits law enforcement and other government officials to violate people’s constitutional rights with virtual impunity”.[45] Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has noted a “disturbing trend” of siding with police officers using excessive force with qualified immunity,[46] describing it as “sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing”.

            The joke being that the suspect was an offer who showed up, claimed that their life was in danger, and shot everyone to death. The officer will then use qualified immunity as a defence to an extrajudicial killing.

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              15 days ago

              Right, but the joke is based on the misconception that qualified immunity means immunity from prosecution, which is false.

              Spreading misinformation is always bad.