re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

This “reached for his waistband” claim has appeared in a lot of police shootings recently. It is not a reason to shoot, the killers know perfectly well that men in particular will reflexively try to pull their pants up when they are taken by surprise. I saw this many times when I was a police officer, and never shot anyone. It is an excuse, a power-tripping fad among killer cops. It is akin to the spate of shootings of harmless little dogs we saw a while back, a fad that continues in many brutality-oriented cop shops. It is an expression of brutal, un-mitigated power. I would like to see a national, indeed, global, boycott of communities that allow this barbarism. Hit these savages and their backward-ass fascist employers where it hurts, in their profits.

In this case, the officer was working on the knowledge that he had: A murder had been committed and the person swatted was holding two people in a kidnapping.

With the calls saying the guy had murdered someone (even though they were later shown false), that sort of indicates to me that such a person (a murderer) would kill again.

The article also says that both the police and the citizens’ review board will go over the incident to see if he followed police protocols and if those protocols are sufficient.

The asshole who made the hoax calls has been arrested and charged with manslaughter (essentially using the police as a murder weapon).

More arrests on such swatting incidents and perhaps that sort of thing will decline.