• snooggums@midwest.social
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    Holy shit, I thought it was double digits. How did they get 376 to show up without any of them roid raging their way into doing something other than dicking around?

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      How did they get 376 to show up without any of them roid raging their way into doing something other than dicking around?

      Some of them tried and were actively prevented from doing it by other Officers. The whole situation is actually worse than most people realize.

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            The fucking litter boxes. Was that meme planted so we could identify which of our friends and neighbors went off the deep end?

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              It seriously stresses me out how many people in my community have taken that seriously. In my own family, even. It is indeed one of the many possible indications of someone to whom I don’t want to give my time.

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          From one report, they didn’t know who was in charge because there were State and local units. So they did nothing while some in charge waited to hear who should be giving the orders. At least that’s how I remember it.

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            Right because that can all be excused away with “policy issues” that leave nobody actually accountable and spits in the face of common sense. “I didn’t try to take down the shooter because I didn’t have anyone to tell me that’s why we were there in the first place”

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      Because it’s a group of narcissists. They were too worried about themselves. None of them had the courage to say “I’m willing to not go home tonight so these kids can.”

      Actually I’d bet that a bunch said that, but didn’t actually do anything about it.

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        This is what pisses me off the most. 376, and you can’t storm the room? 376? And you refuse to trade one for any of those children who needed protecting? These are supposedly the hard calculations they have to make and they all unilaterally chose themselves? Enforcers will always be useless to anybody but the property owners. They aren’t actually here to protect anybody. They should have made the call, and traded 20 of themselves so those kids didn’t have to die. Thats the hard call we expect these “hard asses” to make.

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          I can’t remember the study but basically the bystander effect is a thing. The more people there are in a group, the more likely it is that no one will do anything because everyone will assume that someone else will do something.

          This isn’t to excuse officers because they are specifically trained that they are that someone. The fact that they were held back from entering is willful, malicious, and negligent.

          The fact that the officers actually complied instead of disobeying orders especially when seconds turned to minutes, is cowardice.

          And a reminder that I believe the police chief and mayor of the town was reelected by the town.