As a veteran, I applaud this. I hate the worship.

Non-American here. Why do you even have separate sheriff and police departments? Where I’m from there are state police and federal police and that’s it.

“Everybody hates cops until they need one.” - Wypipo proverb.

Ah Santa Clarita, the carbuncle on the asshole of suburban Los Angeles, not to be confused with the carbuncle on the taint of suburban Los Angeles which is reserved for Lancaster.

It is pretty fucking ironic that you are screetching about “but what if you need to call the cops because you’re being attacked,” and that IS EXACTLY WHAT THESE KIDS DID. And what did the cops do? Point assault rifles directly at them with their fingers on the trigger. Get. Fucked. 

I used to call the police.

Yeah, without the cops, who will show up to my house 2 hours after I get robbed and assaulted with a clipboard to take down my information? We can’t possibly investigate and solve crimes if we can’t also point assault rifles at children because we don’t like black people!

Several calls to emergency and they pick the one that has a different opinion. Hopefully their attorneys get those tapes before the cops erase them and make that cop an example.

What you’ve got there is an example of “warrior training,” which teaches cops to treat every encounter as one that could get them killed and to prioritize their own safety above everything else. That’s why you’ve got a cop pointing military hardware at a couple of kids with a skateboard and apparently ready to open…

Fuck. The. Police.

And look at the magazine. That has to be at least a 30 round capacity magazine. Since when is every street disturbance met with a military response? What... a 19 round Glock isn’t enough? Bad optics along with some bad policing. 

Yeah, ‘member all those bad LAPD cops from forever? They now work for the Sheriff’s departments, where there is even less accountability.

Yeah that’s a win/win in their minds.

The cops had already determined they were going to try to shoot someone when they got word that the parties involved in this altercation were either black or homeless.

“KHTS reports that officers had detained two “suspects” who have since been released. It’s unclear if the homeless man who reportedly started all of this was ever found.”

You mean to tell me that there is no amount of training we can provide that will turn a predator into a protector?!

My grandpa says that when he was in the army his drill sergeant would’ve snapped the index finger in half on any soldier that touched the trigger of their gun that wasn’t actively firing. Lack of trigger discipline is a guaranteed way to kill an innocent / friendly. Clearly police don’t find trigger discipline…

They just keep playing Russian roulette with mother nature. A bunch of hard head ass little kids who’ve had centuries to get shit right. Soooo folks still believe MORE police training will solve it? Do you believe that black officers patrolling black communities will solve it? What happens when we travel outside of…

LA County Sheriff’s handbook:

At least the kids got away from these potential murderers without getting shot. I think it was Friday when a police chief in MN I believe, said that her dept. and departments around the country are getting the message and trying to be better. Apparently the LA County Sheriff’s Dept didn’t get the same message.