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pokoko on 08 July 2016
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Normchacho said:
Nuvendil said:
It's been a gosh darn day people, they were hunting for a shooter who killed 4 cops, 1 DART, wounded 7 others, and wounded multiplease protesters. Yes, he wasn't the guy but he was a suspect at the time, they were just trying to find him. With the shooter dead, all this death threat nonsense will stop. My word they run out and get gunned down protecting civilians and people's first response is to flip because they posted a photo of a suspect who just happened to not be the right guy and haven't apologized in the, what, 13 hour span? Good lord people, have some cooking patience.

When they posted that picture, he had already spoken to a police officer and had handed over his gun.

They also called him a suspect, not a person of interest. There is a very big difference and he wouldn't have even been a person of interest had the police communicated properly.

The long and short of it is that they fucked up and put an innocent civilian in very real danger.

You seem to be implying that what one cop knows, they all know, even when they're scrambling around during a manhunt.  I don't think it works like that.

I kind of agree, though.  The police need to try less hard and not step on any toes.  More people might die, sure, but they're going to need to be less aggressive in this age of social media.  Be more polite, make double sure of everything before they act.  This guy here just won the lottery and it's going to keep happening.  Catching criminals is just going to have to take a backseat to being media safe.  I think that's going to be the future.