• BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      • Cop arrests someone and places him in handcuffs in the back of the cop’s SUV.

      • Cop hears an acorn fall on the SUV and thinks the arrested person that he placed in handcuffs and supposedly searched is shooting at him.

      • Cop falls to the floor and fires and entire magazine at his SUV while yelling that he’s been hit.

      • Luckily, despite being about 15 yards away from the SUV and unloading an entire magazine at the arrested person, he did not hit the arrested person in the SUV.

      • Cop then insists he’s been hit until the doctors at the hospital tell him he is fine and has not been hit with a bullet.

      You can’t make this shit up.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago
        • Cop then insists he’s been hit until the doctors at the hospital tell him he is fine and has not been hit with a bullet.

        So… That dude is definitely getting a psychiatric release from his duties. Right?

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      Cop hears acorn fall, so he does a roll and yells “I’m hit! He’s shooting!” And attempts to murder a handcuffed suspect in the back of the police car.

  • BellaDonna
    28·
    9 months ago

    I think some of y’all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.

    To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the ‘all cops bad’ narrative.

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
      7·
      9 months ago

      Let’s say you’re absolutely 100% correct. Does that mean that claiming that you’ve been hit, diving onto the ground, and unloading a full clip at a handcuffed individual inside your own vehicle is the appropriate immediate response?

      • BellaDonna
        13·
        9 months ago

        I was shot at once, and in the moment, you’re not sure that you haven’t been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it’s a real thing. It’s hard to explain how things happen in the moment.

        I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn’t afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.