Police union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’

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I understand that being surrounded by trauma most days of the year, for a lot of your life leads people to find humor in what the rest of us would find disgusting.

I know a guy who airlifts people to hospitals when they are severely injured. Once a man had been beaten to death in the head with a hammer and my friend had to airlift his body somewhere. His joke “It’s hammer time”.

Not a good joke to you and I. But there is a fair amount of desensitization and coping that goes into a joke and a laugh like that. This guy I know is just a pilot, he doesn’t have any real specialized training to deal emotionally or mentally with something like that.

I am not excusing the officer, not one bit. But just laughing and making a joke about a traumatic situation I kind of understand in a round about way.

What makes this so insidious feeling is that it’s the police, and I know that the vast majority of police are corrupt losers who might actually simply be a bunch of horrible horrible people. Do we know if they would cover up any incompetence that went into the cause of this death? Of course we do. It’s probably even likely, imo

I don’t think that the police should have a union, I don’t think the tax payer should pay for police officers mistakes.

And the addition of throwing in a story about a trump flag incident with a black person makes it pretty obvious that the author of this piece has an agenda to push too.

Pretty sure you can find other flags in that precinct. Probably a BLM flag if this is in Seattle.

The police are disgusting, this author is stooping pretty low, and the only people I respect (besides the victim) in this is the victims family. God bless them, and I hope they are able to find some comfort in the years ahead.

Go read up on the trump flag incident. It was prominently hung in a break area for a long period, which is illegal by state law and against SPD policy, incidentally. We know it was a long period because they wont specify how long it was up. It wasent sitting on a shelf.

They also had a grave marker they confiscated from a BLM protest that had the name of someone SPD killed in the same area as a trophy. It was sitting above the microwave, in plain view.

This is a police department under a decades long federal consent decree due to racial bias policing and excessive violence. They had 6 officers attend Jan 6th, the most of any police department in the united states.

Stop excusing their shitty behavior.

I am not excusing the officer, not one bit.

Yeah, you kind of are.

It's one thing to awkwardly laugh at trauma. That's not anywhere close to what this guy did. Watch the video.

Laughing at the way someone died and the carnage you have to clean up is completely different from say the victim had limited value. There's still a line idgaf what you're dealing with on a daily basis. Get a new job if it's that bad and seek therapy.

I think you’ve worded it very succinctly. There’s layers, but it doesn’t excuse the event itself.

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