Frequent fliers to this community, I’m sure, already know the answer to this question, but just in case someone is new…
The answer is “Warrior Training”:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
https://boltsmag.org/warrior-cop-training-persists-in-minneapolis-despite-reforms/
Good video here, NSFW hilarious language:
A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does theLAPD keep shooting peopleholding harmless objects?There, FTFY.
The first police brutality I heard about American police while growing up in England was Rodney King. That was 1991. 32 years later and its the same story on a regular basis.
I thought that first pic was a gun at first glance…but then again, I wasn’t trained in identifying firearms