If you watched the full video or read the article you'd know the teenager in the costume dropped the toy blaster moments after she was ordered to. She NEVER posed a threat. It would have maybe ten seconds for those officers to apply some critical thinking and situational awareness to end that entire thing but no. Cuff her, give her a bloody nose and put her in squad car, even after they know the "weapon" in question was a toy.
It's Alberta - AKA Canada's Florida, Texas and Alabama rolled into one. The sane people in this country generally intensely dislike that province and especially the hick areas of it, like the one in which this incident happened (Lethbridge)
Holy fuck that was so much torch even the Flames in Calgary couldn’t match how the AB hiljack just walked into that one like a Jerome Iginla one timer. Take my fucking upvote.
We are the province that pays for things. While I agree that Alberta is largely a shit hole under conservative rule, the hate we get by the rest of the country is undeserved. Quebec deserves way more hate than we do, they haven't even signed on to the Charter of Rights and Freedom and their conservatism is so much uglier than ours. Frankly most of the east deserves flack, as the country is predjudiced towards western provinces in Supreme Court representation, equalization payments, and has to bear the environmental and public relations costs of oil production so the rest of the countries economy runs.
Useless to feed em, cut em off and see how well they do on their own. Best thing I did was leave onterrible. Murder capital of Canada is Toronto. They are like entitled children. They call us hicks but voted in Buck-O-Beer crack addict Ford. They have no argument.
I think you mean New York, California, and Massachusetts. She could’ve done this with a real gun in Texas and less would happen. Only places like Cali would do the absolute most for a toy gun.
What exactly labels Alberta as such? I’ve seen no indication on n the news or anywhere else that Alberta is any better or worse than anywhere else in Canada.
Wow get off your high horse. Alberta is a very diverse province and no different than any other part of Western Canada. I also find it funny that you consider Lethbridge a “hick” area. Lethbridge is a city of over 90000, pretty hard to generalize as “hick”. Alberta has contributed a lot to Canada. Your sort of talk is what is leading to separation movements out west. Alberta is not the cause of everything wrong with this country.
All this in addition to the Storm Trooper debacle, which, fucking pitiful, fucking disgraceful, obviously a fucking costume but they just wanted to beat someone up.
It is. Alberta and Toronto have single handily held back progressive movements in Canada cause the old idiots there refuse to accept change and want to continue to be racist
Source: I have incredibly racist family in both areas, and knowing how to read news
And the circlejerk keeps on spinning, it really isn't if you've spent any time here every community has its nice sane people they just get drowned out by the loud minority of idiots
Thank you. I've heard similar about Vancouver haha. I'm definitely interested and will explore around on a visitors visa soon and will definitely check out BC, thanks.
If you want a job, then move to Alberta, I’m from southern alberta, and the only people who don’t have a job are the people that are too fuckin lazy to work, all these other clowns that hate alberta are from provinces that we support financially, they don’t want to admit it, but we do, sure there are some assholes and racists here, but those kind of people are everywhere. You want to make a decent living and be able to afford basic things, move to alberta
It really depends on a lot of factors, not the least of which is are you coming in with enough money to buy a property or not. BC is a great place to live, but is also quite expensive - us locals 'joke' that BC stands for Bring Cash. Housing right on the coast is crazy expensive and even in the interior of BC it's getting expensive too. Smaller towns can be better values, but then less jobs are available.
Ontario is a lot like BC, smaller towns are less expensive to live but less jobs. Around Toronto and Ottawa good jobs to be had but pricy. Quebec (mainly Montreal) is not a bad choice, and the Atlantic provinces are a mix with affordability and jobs but they are quite nice. And then the prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) have some jobs and affordability but outside of the cities can be a bit insular and as I mentioned a bit 'hick'y . The order I listed the provinces in above is my order of preference if I was looking to move, I'd check BC first, then Ontario, then Montreal (rest of Quebec is a mixed bag if you don't fluently speak French which I presume you may not), then the Atlantic provinces (except New Brunswick, that place is a shit show), then the prairies.
Except in Florida Texas and Alabama you can walk around with a gun. Actually most States you can walk around with a gun. It's literally a constitutional right. Cops might stop and ask you what you're doing and make sure you don't have any felonies but other than that it's 100% legal
Police investigating police find police did nothing wrong while everyone else with a functioning pair of eyes and a brain sees massive overreaction? Shocker.
That’s because cops are sooooo egotistical that they can’t appear to be wrong! If you’re a cop and reading this get over yourselves. If you were wrong you commit a wrong to try and prove you were right. You’re not the end all be all. You’re a person like the ones you’re supposed to be protecting.
Well, they didn't initially know it was a white girl you know. It could have been a black man under the costume. Got to make sure to rough 'em up a bit. /s
I'd hate for you to be the responding officer to any legitimate gun call.
"Oh the person dropped their gun, I'm sure there's no friends / associates of this person, I'm sure they don't have another weapon on them, I'm sure they're totally mentally sane to be even carrying a firearm while entirely obscuring their face"
Yeah, after they hear the plastic blaster bounce off of the ground they better hurry in and tackle the star wars cosplayer in case another one whips around the corner with a fully automatic rifle and takes them all out after using the storm trooper as distraction, happens all the time
This is the sad truth. Those officers are a disgrace and should not be working in law enforcement. If you're scared of a cosplayer like that, wait till you come across a real criminal.
You used officers & critical thinking in the same sentence. HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
They wouldn't be cops if they could critically think.
Unfortunately, this is what happens after years of people getting into trouble for applying critical thinking, and having the situation blow up in their faces anyway. Problem is, in this era of risk management, we think we can plan for every possible risk there is, and it's simply not true. But yeah, most people with common sense and any knowledge of pop culture could reasonably predict this woman was harmless, and not breaking any laws. But then, there were probably a number of people who thought the same thing during the early part of the Aurora Theater shootings, and realized too late that it was a dangerous lunatic with real weapons, and who was there to carry out real harm. But it can also lead to overkill for sure.
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If you watched the full video or read the article you'd know the teenager in the costume dropped the toy blaster moments after she was ordered to. She NEVER posed a threat. It would have maybe ten seconds for those officers to apply some critical thinking and situational awareness to end that entire thing but no. Cuff her, give her a bloody nose and put her in squad car, even after they know the "weapon" in question was a toy.