New York police shoot black man holding pipe after reports he had firearm
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Once again, what? Yes you are. A system that allows death like this, needs improvement
You do realize that isn't the only solution right?
Unless we make pretty specific assumptions about his history, that's all I can think of within this spectrum.
You could talk more broad aspects of our culture, and how police are conditioned to respond to situations (because the mentally ill causing a disturbance isn't unique) but that's quite a large issue and I'm not exactly sure how we can achieve meaningful change there.
Better mental care as well how about?
Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to point out the institutional racism in america. However, not everything is racially motivated and acting as if everything is racially motivated is dangerous. Mainly because acts that do not have any evidence of racial motivation that are treated as if they where racially motivated only damage civil rights movements.
In hindsight, we now know that this person had a pipe. However, brandishing any item as if it is a gun is called simulating a weapon, as long as people think it is real, react as if it is real , it is considered real. Mainly because no one know that it is not a gun. In some of the surveillance footage screen caps in the article show it is extremely hard at a distance to see that. To me it almost looked like a small break action revolver.
If anything this highlights the horrible inequality when it comes to socioeconomic class and lack of accessible healthcare, especially mental health care.
You don't even know the details of this guys history
This discussion is so vague I can't tell if it's a "I hate guns" thread or an "I hate cops" thread.
I don't need to. If the mental health system was good enough, he wouldn't have been in that situation
Well yeah, no one has to die, no crime has to ever be committed, etc. if we had a perfect society.
Saying that isn't really any better than "thoughts and prayers" tho
"I hate pipes"
why not both
Are you the mystical cubemanv2 i've heard of before
we really need the report function back asap
No, it's actually active saying things need improvement
what happens if they refuse care?
Well, almost everyone who has mental health issues generally speaking doesn't enjoy having those issues. So creating an environment of trust of the mental healthcare system is important and could fix the problem
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