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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 53 points 8 months ago

In case anyone's unclear about how someone gets to the point that they're blasting their gun into an empty street because an acorn fell on their car, you should learn about How Cops Are Trained to Shoot You in Your Home.

TL;DW: watch it, this is important. But also they are basically traumatised into being jumpy trigger happy motherfuckers by their sociopathic training.

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[-] degen@midwest.social 46 points 8 months ago

I didn't know ifunny could hit like this

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I saw this version going around.

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

Hilariously enough, I scrolled by that almost immediately after posting that comment. The acorn memes have been gold.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 8 months ago

So, acorn fell on a car, police officer thought it was a gunshot, started firing on the car with handcuffed suspect inside, then another police officer joined the shooting.

Bodycam footage:
https://youtu.be/MI7YNOhAfzM
https://piped.video/MI7YNOhAfzM

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

"I'm hit!" Said the clown as he started dark souls rolling to evade the imaginary gunfire.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

And people use his PTSD as an excuse. Dumb fuck veteran who is scared of being killed the way he killed others opens fire in a community and is lucky he didn’t murder an innocent person.

Piece of shit veteran dumb fucks. Take your PTSD to the psych ward, murderer.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Military PTSD should disqualify you from being an armed cop. Go get a job that's not life and death.

[-] llii@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

What the fuck, you can't even hear anything. How could there be a shot from the car without a lout sound?

[-] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

In his partners body cam video you can hear a sound before he starts shooting. Still don't know how you would mistake that for a gunshot, but there was at least a sound 🤷

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Iirc the main dude is a vet with ptsd. If my partner told me he's hit and started shooting in a direction i would at the very least also take cover and try and figure out the situation. They had a suspect in the car so they both freaked and thought the suspect was shooting at them. Not to excuse them, and fuck whoever allowed a ptsd vet to have a job that uses a gun. He should have had more resources to help him with his ptsd and to find alternative jobs that maybe don't trigger it like that. Cops are trained to always be on edge over here because they never know who might have a gun, it's stupid he was allowed in.

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

What we need is an American flag with a big acorn in the middle to counteract all those thin blue line flags.

[-] PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Whoo I’m really scared! No, don’t, don’t! There’s a…a peck here with an acorn pointed at me!!!

How did I not already think of the connection? Here’s hoping for a lot more memes featuring Val Kilmer.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Now is not a good time to be a squirrel in America...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I really think we need to investigate Ikea. Do you hear what they do with acorns? Or at least what acorns can become?

You ever try emptying your clip at an entire Ikea?

[-] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

You ever try emptying your clip at an entire Ikea?

No... but you probably just aroused a few dozen ammosexuals.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You ever try emptying your clip at an entire Ikea?

Yeah, from 15 yards away, but I missed, so I went to the hospital and insisted that I was shot.

[-] darthsid@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I’m out of the loop on this - what’s the deal with acorns?

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

US policeman parked under a tree, heard an acorn drop onto his car, got scared, proceeded to roll on the ground and start emptying his gun onto the residential street.

[-] JonDorfman@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

You forgot the part where he was screaming, "I'm hit! I'm hit!"

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Also the part where his partner, who was talking to others across the street, rushed over all like, "what are we shooting at?" and also opened fire on the police car with dude handcuffed in the back, though she didn't dump her whole mag like the first one did.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That to me is worse. People have said the guy who started shooting at ghosts might have had PTSD from being in the military, but why the fuck did his partner just start shooting at random shit too?? They're just as bad!

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

One of the major rules with guns. Identify your target. Identify things behind your target...

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[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 29 points 8 months ago

Additional information: he and his partner had arrested a man, who was handcuffed and unarmed in the back of the car. That is whom the policeman thought opened fired at him.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

How many people did he kill?

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

None, thankfully it wasn't a crowded street

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago

None fortunately

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fortunately he has police training, so he didn't hit what he was aiming at.

[-] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Histrionic in the worst sense of the word

[-] darthsid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yikes!!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Screw giving guns to teachers; they should have a pocketful of acorns to toss. Next gunman won't have a chance.

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

Super Troopers looks more like a documentary every day

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The guys from super troopers and idiocracy really need to team up for an update.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah right! The guys from Super Troopers had excellent aim. Remember that scene in which they were at the pistol range testing out a bullet proof cup with live ammo?

[-] DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Hey, man, you gotta be careful with those acorns! They’ll turn you to stone if they hit you!

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Peck.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Damn, you're more armed than me!

I only have 2 testicles in my pocket..

[-] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

this meme brought to you by ifunny.co

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 1 points 8 months ago

Ew, ifunny

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

At least they didn't find paper cup.

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