Gonna write up my own quick thread here on why the story coming out of Brooklyn Center regarding Daunte Wright's murder is so unbelievable.

First, background - I was a CO (Confinement Officer) for a little under a year. I thankfully left that profession before it poisoned my

brain. I worked out of the county jail, which is where the sheriff's office was also located. I got to know a lot of the officers there.

Bar... one, possibly, it was the most sadistic, sociopathic group of people I have ever encountered in my life. I had exactly five days of

structured training to do my job. An entire DAY of it was devoted to how to lie to jurors. Key phrases to use in official write-ups, explanations of incidents, etc. Of course, they didn't come right out and say "this is how you lie to a jury," but that's exactly what it was.

A second entire day was devoted to bullshit, racist concepts like "excited delirium" and other pseudo-scientific shit that cops use to regularly get away with murder. And when I say "get away with murder," that's exactly what I mean. Remember the comment about them being

sociopaths? Killing people is something they brag about. Something they HOPE will happen. Patrol officers regularly brought detainees in who were irritable and "amped up" because they had spent the entire prior hour antagonizing them, HOPING to get into a fight.

So this story about confusing a taser for a pistol? It seems stupid, but she was shouting "taser" before she fired, right?

This is exactly the kind of pre-meditated excuse a cop comes up with to get away with killing people. Maybe you think that sounds like hyperbole, but after

having worked alongside these people? I am not remotely surprised. I cannot really elaborate on how evil police are. On how "lesser" they consider us. *Especially* those of us who are not white cishet men. And especially black people.

It is sickening.

Now, if you're still interested in the specific mechanics of why the "confusion" story is bullshit, aside from my personal experience with police?

(TW: Guns)

This is a Gen 4 Glock 22. It is a .40 caliber service pistol carried by many if not most cops.

The "safety" on this pistol is on the trigger - that smaller "lever" there? Unless pulled back as well, it acts as a backstop, preventing the trigger from being pulled back far enough to fire the weapon. Both need to be pulled together.

As soon as a cop pulls this weapon, they

know it is ready to be fired and potentially take someone's life. The weapon itself, when loaded with 15+1 (this means one round chambered, 15 rounds in the magazine) weighs over twice as much as most tasers.

The trigger has a pivoting motion when pulled, and is carried in a

duty holster that you do not simply "draw" from on a whim (prevents someone from taking a cop's weapon from their holster).

When a cop draws their pistol, it is a *deliberate* choice. Not a mistake.

TW: Taser / Gun

The X26 is, if I am not mistake, currently one of the more commonly issued taser devices. The one on the right is more similar to a pistol, and was what my department carried. Both of them fire single-use cartridges containing a couple electrodes and tens of feet

of wire. You'll notice both of them have a manual "thumb safety" on the side. The trigger placement of the X26 is significantly different than a Glock, as is the trigger design. The trigger on a Taser device pulls *straight* back, it does not "pivot" like a pistol trigger does.

It is shaped differently, and even on the more pistol-like Taser device, the front sight is bright yellow. Again, they weigh half as much as that Glock does.

There is no feasible situation in which you would ever mistake one of these two for the other, *even as an amateur.*

Police are - ostensibly - trained in the use of these (and how to get away with abusing these tools to injure and kill).

As laughably impossible as it would be for an amateur to mistake the two, it is beyond ludicrous to think a cop would.

I'm not sure there's a name for this

axiom, but in certain situations - particularly where police are involved - you should never attribute to stupidity what can be more adequately explained by malice.

So when you see this horrifying video of a cop killing an unarmed black man after shouting that she was going to

taser him, do not doubt for even a second that it is entirely likely - and, in my opinion, FAR more likely - that this was an entirely deliberate and premeditated choice.

Remember my five days of training? 40 hours total? Police academy is ~600 hours.

I guarantee you they get far more than 8 hours of "how to lie to a jury" class.

The official explanation is *literally* involuntary manslaughter. A felony. This is obviously a lie - so how bad must the truth be that THIS is considered a better story? And how damning are the facts that they didn't fabricate something else?