Cop accidentally shoots his coworker while jokingly pointing guns at each other

Were these guys even taught basic gun safety?

CW: Gun violence

https://storage.to/nzfFj92mL

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arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 68d (3 replies)

"counting or not counting gang violence?"

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 69 pts · 68d (1 reply)

I mean... cops are technically just state funded gangs 🤷

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 68d

thier union is pratically a gang/mafia that can strongarm the cities, so technically not a true union.

anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 68d

POP!

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 68d

Everyone knows the first rule of gun safety is 'Just have fun'

fodor@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 68d (2 replies)
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wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Gun? Safety? I make safety with gun? Gun safety.

Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 67d

Safety is the nickname they give to that little no-fun button on the bang bang toy.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 68d (5 replies)

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 67d

So this is the version cops take.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 67d (1 reply)

I love hyenas. And "shoot at noises" is making me full on belly laugh.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 67d

Also consistent with gnoll behavior.

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 68d (1 reply)

5; don't be a moron (or a cop)

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d

that hyena is about to flamethrower a noise. That ship has sailed.

decended_being@midwest.social · 26 pts · 67d

But that officer's gun goes off

Some crazy copaganda passive voice in play here.

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 67d
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kamenlady@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Cop jokingly shoots his coworker while accidentally pointing guns at each other

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 68d

Your pfp really fits to this scenario

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 68d

This is very traumatic to those of us who have lost friends in a freak gasoline fight accident. You people are so insensitive.

dotCody@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 68d (8 replies)

Piggies killing piggies. Yay!

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 21 pts · 68d (6 replies)
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 68d (4 replies)

Wasn't there some silly thing Hasan said about how the police didn't want anyone too smart?

Something tells me there'll be a next time.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 68d

This wasn't the first time it won't be the last.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Yeah I think he's referencing this.

anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 68d

There it is, thanks!

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 68d

it was well known before hasan said that, like decades. thats why conservatives make up the majority of police forces.

dotCody@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 68d

Darn it! 😤

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 68d

Cops...can do good things?

1D10@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 67d

I really wish the titles were more accurate, it should read "Officer shoots coworker while negligently handling service weapon"

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 68d

i expect nothing less from cops.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 67d (1 reply)

If you put all the cops in a room, how long until there's only one left

Edit: this is actually a really good premise for a movie

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 67d

Or just in general as like, a good idea.

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 9 pts · 68d

Oh, “disciplinary action has been taken”. So everybody has learned their lessons and everything is okay. The problem has been solved. Great! /s

Inucune@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 68d

When you can be too smart to be hired, this is what exists under the high water mark.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 68d

😆

Linktank@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 68d (1 reply)

"Link expired" Post not even 30 minutes old.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 68d

Thanks, I fixed it

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 66d

The copaganda is strong enough that this is unquestioningly portrayed as an "accident".

But, when someone aims a weapon (or vaguely similar object) at a cop, the cop almost always starts shooting. Dude might've feel disrespected or intimidated or whatever. Maybe not just joking around.

zephiriz@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 68d
  1. Handle every firearm as if it's loaded, even if you think/know its not.
  2. Do not point it at anything you are not willing to destroy.
  3. Finger off the trigger till you are ready to shoot.
  4. Know your target and what is behind it.

Edit: Not for the light of heart. Risky click. https://youtu.be/PDQHF1ZyPfI

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 67d

If only the natural selection worked on both of them...

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 67d

Some people think guns are fun to shoot.

I think guns are fun to shoot, too, but gun safety has to come first.

Even if you're anti-cop/ACAB, you should know your way around guns, or at least understand basic firearm safety. Even people who are afraid of guns (and especially them) should be able to pick up a random handgun they find in the street some poor kid could accidentally use on themselves/their friends/siblings, disarm it, and even disable it. If we're in a fight and you drop your handgun, I can quickly unload it and pull the slide off, and throw both in opposite directions. You're not firing it any time soon. You'll have to find all the parts first and you'll have to know how to put it together. I'm not a tough guy. I'm a nerd who builds phones and used to mod phones (until I got sick of that shit and just got an iPhone). I can also handle guns, and I shoot pretty good (though, only ever at paper targets). You don't have to love guns. But make them your friend. If you don't want the gun to work for you, make it not work for someone who might use it on you. In old cartoons, they'd just bend the barrel U-shaped. You can't do that IRL. You can make it just as useless though.

LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 67d (1 reply)

Go to any police station bathroom that the cops use. There is ALWAYS at least one bullet hole in a stall where a cop was fucking around with their sidearm while taking a shit.

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 66d

IME there's also free body armor and a giant purple two-headed dildo.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d

Booger hooks and whatnot.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 68d
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d

The real crime is that title.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 66d

Wow, what an absolute flipping idiot. Oh wait, he's a cop, never mind, ACAB.

IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d

Everybody does a desk pop!

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 65d

No such thing as an accident with a gun. What we have here is a negligent discharge.

SolidEnigma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 67d

I just saw this on youtube shorts i was shocked lol.

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 67d
texture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 67d

"accidentally" 🤗