The behaviour of US police officers

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Well, yes.

The unreasonable part is that people need to dive into dumpsters in the first place. Once that part is taken as at all acceptable then the stores are going to look bad no matter what they do.

The stores get scapegoated because they are an easy target and whining about corporations acting like they are legally supposed to is a way to score points for being compassionate without the political risks of advocating the kinds of social programs aimed at a world where no one needs to dive into a dumpster.
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"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor had no food, they called me a communist." —Dom Hélder Câmara
 
Plano, TX police decide that arresting a black man for "pedestrian in the roadway" is a good use of discretion during a once-in-a-lifetime cold snap.

An 18-year old black man — Rodney Reese — was walking home from work at
@Walmart
during #TexasFreeze when @PlanoPoliceDept officers charged him with “Pedestrian in the Roadway”, Tuesday. He spent the night in jail. I’m speaking with him — and the Chief of Police, tonight.
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https://twitter.com/DavidSFOX4/status/1363592238631124996

Personal anecdote, it's extremely common in New England for people to walk in the roadways after a big snowstorm. Often roads are plowed while sidewalks or other pedestrian paths are impassable with snow or covered in ice.
 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dx14lOcBpM

Video of the fatal shooting of Kurt Reinhold in San Clemente last year. Obviously he needed to be stopped urgently as he was, checks notes, "going to jaywalk", according to one of the deputies. (Although, the other deputy suggests his road-crossing was "controlled" so who basically knows at this point?)

The best thing - the cops involved were, checks notes again, assigned to the Homeless Outreach Team. Must be some new definition of "outreach" that hasn't reached me yet.
 
Cops killed another handcuffed man by kneeling on his back and neck for over 5 minutes.

A 30-year-old Northern California man undergoing a mental health episode died days after police officers kneeled on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes to subdue him, lawyers for his family said.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/us/angelo-quinto-antioch-police-department-death-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2021-02-24T09%3A45%3A03

Isabella Collins said she called police in hopes they would help de-escalate the situation.
"I don't think I will ever not feel bad," she told CNN affiliate KGO. "If it was the right thing to do, it wouldn't have killed my brother."
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Awful, imagine having to live with this kind of guilt. She called the cops thinking they would help her distressed brother, instead they murdered him.
 
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Okay listen I get, to a degree, that public statements put out before trials/charges/etc have to be incredibly neutral. I do get that.

But this whole "Yes we are aware of the alleged incident where the officer threatened, assaulted, raped, murdered, then set the corpse on fire, then went to their home and threatened their family, then burned their crops to the ground, then sewed salt into the Earth, then sent a robot back in time to kill their grandmother so they were never born, all caught on video with a dozen witnesses and we are launching an investigation" thing just really makes it sound like you don't care and don't see what the problem is.

And I've seen the "pepper" that police agencies can put into public statements about non-police criminals who haven't yet been charged/convicted so don't tell me they can't do it or that there's rules against it.
 
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