I just watched the bodycam of Sonya Massey's murder, and on top of how gallingly wrong her death was--and how many people live in fear of the police in the US & Canada for this reason--my heart just breaks for how often SOP in these cases seems to involve utter indifference to being *with* someone once they're wounded and down.
I'd like to think that if I ever accidentally caused a mortal wound, I'd at least have the integrity to be present with the victim in their last moments.
FFS.
@MLClark I keep going back and forth on watching it
@tyghebright @MLClark Or just existing as LGBTQ. Especially T.
We might expand the statement to "it's wild how many people consider insulting them to be a crime punishable by violence."
Some jobs / social roles then give some of those people more institutional support for follow-through than others.
But I think we're surrounded by a lot more damaged people than we'd like to think - many of whom have disturbingly limited ideas of who does and does not deserve to live, let alone to live in peace. 🫂
@MLClark @tyghebright I never understand how these people can go through 4,5,6 previous police departments in a short time.. why hire them?
You know how some will leap to the defence of a person who's been called out for sexual offences?
I've had honest chats with a few dudes about that kneejerk reaction, and they tend to reduce to hoping someone would stand up for them, if they were accused of the same. Maybe they'd been in bad situations already, maybe they hadn't - but the offender looks enough like them that they're thinking "what if it WAS me?"
I suspect the same "Do Unto Others" is true for departments.
@Graci @MLClark
It's wild how many police consider insulting them to be a crime punishable by violence.