Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they shot at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his back to a train.
In the days since Sunday’s shooting, police officials have repeatedly emphasized that the officers fired after Derell Mickles “charged” at one of them, and when their attempts to deescalate the situation and use Tasers had failed — leaving them with little choice but to resort to deadly force to protect themselves and passengers.
The footage, uploaded to the NYPD’s YouTube page Friday, offers a different view of the shooting that not only wounded Mickles but also a bystander, who was hit in the head with a stray bullet. Gregory Delpeche, 49, was sent to the hospital in critical condition, where doctors had to open up his skull to reduce brain swelling, according to his family.
Cops are trained to see every little thing as an immediate threat on their lives.
That’s why this happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmnJgXyZpU
Meanwhile, police officer isn’t even in the top 25 most dangerous jobs in America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/02/most-dangerous-jobs-america-database/11264064002/
Maybe we should start giving guns to roofers.
They can shoot at the ground and slow their descent.
I feel like we need Randall Munro to weigh in on this. Exactly how much firepower would the roofer need to save themselves from falling off a roof?
Already exists.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
There’s an xkcd for everything
That’s a jetpack though. I’m talking about landing after falling like a SpaceX rocket or something.
Jetpack is just a rocket (or jet, but most of the depicted jetpacks are rockets) that you wear on your back. You’d land the same way the falcon booster lands, by firing the rockets to slow your descent.
Sure, but it would take a different amount of firepower to take off than it would to land.
Yes.