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Deputy shoots groundhog blocking traffic in Carroll County
Ian Morales
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Christian Barnes
This is pretty typical though, police are trained to shoot animals they cannot control. This is because you're supposed to call animal control for animals that are a nuisance both not a threat, since most people don't do that this sort of thing is common.
There's a reason why the "ATF hates dogs" meme exists, because if ATF agents (or any police) search your house and your animal is not locked in a kennel or on a leash their default action is to shoot it. The only exception is for grazing animals, and only because they are private property destined for slaughter eg profit. But in that case the property owner then gets the right to shoot anything harassing his private property without needing to call the police in the first place - this is one of the original marketed uses of the AR-15.
Jackson Hernandez
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Sebastian Bell
So what you are saying is that if someone had a goat in their backyard they could kill any cop that tried to shoot it?
Sebastian Morales
Was replying to
Kayden Torres
If the cop failed to identify themselves then yes (this has relevance with plainclothes cops and deputies who aren't always given formal uniforms and badges). But really it's used to shoot things like dogs, mexicans, or other cattle that get in the way of the private livestock's grazing. The same applies to crops (but not gardens). Such rights don't exist for pets or other people, who have to feel endangered to shoot in self defense. Which is why cops wait for animals to approach them before opening fire, rather than just immediately opening fire on sight. It is considered a form of pest control.
I realize this sounds bizarre but you have to get into the mindset of a rancher. The rules here work if they're approached as a function of protecting profit, which is why they exist.
Anthony Harris
Also for clarity: remember that in America and Mexico Sheriffs are elected and can deputize anyone. As a result, in rural areas Sheriffs will be elected by all the ranchers then deputize one kid from each family. This is especially common on indian reservations (who have their own tribal police forces) and within Mexico. As a result they can't have one family using their power over another family, therefore police have to do everything through the elected Sheriff and can't just harass landowners like they harass illegal immigrants or regular citizens. In America it's why migrants are explicitly targeted for operating overloaded vehicles while fleet trucks owned by farms are allowed to speed. It's also why farms have an extensive network of freight railways that can tear apart entire neighborhoods yet there's very little passenger transit.
It continues because ranchers make a lot of money, especially in Mexico where beef is a major export to America.
Elijah Long
By the way operating a private pest control or security company is the "regulated militia" part of the Second Amendment, which is how they're able to own machine guns and encrypted radios. Ditto for Mexico where people other than organized militias are not allowed to have arms. Can't have your migrant wageslave force venturing out of the carport living area and "stealing" the crops or cattle that are going to be made into mars bars and slim jims. This is also done to ensure workers don't attempt to "riot" or "agitate" aka organize.
Which is one of the reasons why Mexico still has an active communist movement and why America's socialist movements all began in rural areas.
Alexander Taylor
Pigs always be keepin' a groundhog brother down. They be slayin' our niggas in the streets man
HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT
David Wilson
Come visit us in texas yankee
Grayson Foster
I hope you're not trying to justify this. because "getting into the logic of the profit motive" is like getting in the mind of a king claiming divine right. I can follow the logic but the premise is retarded.
Ryder Myers
I'm not, but a lot of peculiarities of American and Mexican society (Tex-Mex culture in particular) are apparent here. This includes limitations on the Second Amendment that conservatives traditionally supported during the Cold War.
Ryder Ramirez
I've been bluff charged by a ground hog. They won't actually attack once they get close. If he hadn't repeatedly backed up from the animal it would have fucked off.
I rate 0/10,
Daniel Smith
That's nice, it astounds me what huge cucks cops are. I've even thinking, and I think corruption/abuse of position or power (whatever you want to call it) should be a capital offense or a crime near the level of rape. Imagine if next time some fucktard decided to be corrupt he was literally executed. Guarantee it would work.
Anthony Torres
Should have put it in the zoo.
Colton Thomas
Sure is liberal in here.
Christopher Evans
here's the vidyo
Chase Davis
ANOTHER CASE OF POLICE BRUTALITY
GROUNDHOG LIVES MATTER
GLM
Daniel Morales
pig kills hog
Hunter Richardson
and someone just didn't drive over it?
Joshua Rogers
Cops are dumbfucks to begin with, and then they're only trained to respond with violence. With guns especially, they're trained to the point that drawing and shooting is a reflex that isn't even under the control of their pea-sized forebrain.
Robert Thompson
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Jace Roberts
evry tim
Parker Sanders
What a dumbass cop. The animal almost crossed the road.
Cooper Nguyen
Now you understand why cops are so dangerous: not hatred, but fear. They've been taught to FEAR that literally everyone is packing a gun & waiting to pop a cop, even though their job is one of the safest in the land.
Adrian Rivera
I know everyone is making a fuss about this because its a cop, and there are some legitimate criticisms in this thread of cops, but its literally just a groundhog. They're rodents that breed like rabbits and your dog will probably kill more then you will ever have to. If it really bothers you, someone could claim it and skin it so there is no waste, though there really isn't that much to use. What really bothers me is that people who get shot or beaten get less coverage then this.
Brayden James
lmaooo i wanna see the facebook comments for this.
it will b funny to see the animal rights fags whining about the dead groundhog
Blake Sullivan
That's not the point, we get that the groundhog isn't that important, BUT, the over-reaction by the cop is just begging for critisism. It's an animals that would have been easier to quite literally kick off the road than shoot.
Also isn't it ironic that when they shoot people they say that the body is easier to hit than the leg (or the butt) and yet a ground hog is like 1/3 the size of your leg.
Also also, why waste ammo on a land-beaver?
Evan Baker
The article is 'blocked in my world-region' so does anyone know why the cop was there - someone surely didn't call the cop for this did they? Why did he have to 'engage the target'?
Ethan Perry
Ay, this
Connor James
Jesus Christ, burgers.
I'm dead serious, how the fuck do you sleep at night knowing that your police force is so imprinted on violence and using lethal force for literally anything?
Basically shooting is their only solution for anything, even a goddamn oversized rat coming their way. And this on top the rest of the shit that is beyond fucked in your sorry excuse for a country, how the fuck are most of you not even planning to pack your stuff and leave?
Dylan Barnes
I was driving through a small town in Texas the other day, stopped at a light, when a county sheriff pulled into the intersection and got out to halt traffic to let an 18-wheeler transporting an oversized mobile home through.
That's not the funny part, though. The funny part is that this sheriff was an enormous fatass wearing military fatigues. That's just how how dresses normally, apparently. He was like fat Guile from Street Fighter.
Owen Gutierrez
It was actually really reckless of the cop to shoot the animal and he should be disciplined for needlessly discharging his firearm.
It looks like the groundhog was just in the way and so traffic was stopped because people were waiting for it to fuck off. The Deputy rolls up, sees traffic is stopped, and then is viciously assaulted by this deadly creature. It was pure chance that the deputy's bullet managed to strike between the beast's armor-like shoulder blades, lest the monstrous animal tear him limb from limb with his mighty claws and fangs.
A lot of Americans have been indoctrinated with cop hero worship. In the public mind, cops are selfless, heroic figures that valiantly assume a job of extreme danger, forming the "thin blue line" between civilized order and depraved chaos, which threatens to swallow America (and therefore the world) up on all sides.
Nevermind that cops have killed more Americans since 9/11 than have died in all of America's overseas engagements since then, and including those killed in the twin towers themselves. Nevermind that violent crime has been on the decline for thirty years, and despite the almost total absence of any kind of "terrorist" threat, are lavished with billions of dollars in pay, benefits, military training and equipment. On average cops shoot three people a day in the US.
Younger people are increasingly aware of how fucked this all is, especially as they increasingly are fucked by the police themselves. No-knock raids, vicious, barbaric treatment of everyone they come in contact with, their apparent immunity despite the most flagrant breaking of the law, etc etc etc, is having an increasingly souring effect on public affection for police, but with all these old fucking well off cracker boomers, the cult of the cop is going to endure for a long while I think, and won't be up until the deteriorating conditions of society reveal the class character of the police force and their opposition to the working class.
Jason Fisher
Brayden Roberts
Cheers pal.
Adam Green
wut
Jaxson Diaz
Commentary is gold
Xavier Watson
Lol I didn't even watch it until that wtf
Jose Roberts
True but it's a matter of principle. Could you kill a groundhog? Before you answer yes would not they claim just pulling out your firearm is endangering pedestrians so I ask again…could you?
Fuck the police coming straight from the underground. A nigger got it bad for me cause I'm brown.
Jason Morgan
at least he had the decency to shoot it twice
Gavin Martin
kys
Jackson Adams
That's the joke.
Gabriel Lopez
how do European retards sleep at night knowing full well they benefit from this same empire, and not even one century ago were engaging in equally heinous crimes against humanity?
Asher Long
This isn't strictly about cops, but this is entirely true for a moving target. Also, when making the decision to shoot someone you always shoot to kill, otherwise mentally you put yourself in the frame of thought that you don't want to hurt the person and either a) miss them or b) don't shoot them. Anyone who's not a cop can tell you this, its why you should be aware of your situation and attempt to deescalate if firearms aren't involved yet before you escalate Funnily enough, military personnel are taught this far more then cops are. Once you decide to pull the trigger, you shoot with the mentality that you will kill who your aiming at. Its actually better this way in regards to mitigating deaths and injury as well, if you put it in your mind that your going to most likely be killing a person when you pull your gun rather then merely injuring them then you'll think things over more before you decide to commit.
Ian Jones
look, animal rights people are gay as fuck but lmao this cop had a pavlovian response to "shoot the aggressor" even when it was a fucking *groundhog*
Julian Watson
"Shoot your problems of the suburban world away until you discover you're the real problem to the community and you shoot yourself"
is the guiding pathos of the American Police Officer
Nicholas Clark
Then get an education, and stop watching children’s cartoons, shitskin moron.
Matthew Rivera
Keep chewing cock dude
Lincoln White
Xavier Price
If you want to understand why cops are so dumb and scared all the time watch Surviving Edged Weapons. youtube.com
It's a feature-length training video that cherrypicks the craziest situations to paint a picture that everybody is armed to the teeth and ready to murder you and your buddies, and it includes lots of reenactments of actual cases where cops got fucked up, including photos of the real events.
Aaron Sullivan
yeah after letting it suffer for a while first, even then it was still thrashing around
John Russell
thanks user