In the post, someone replied that they get fired if they don’t deescalate properly. It sounds like the person you referenced did get fired. So i think that does add up?
I’m just pointing out the hilariously poor timing.
If you are going to claim that McDonald’s employees have superior de-escalation skills to police…the absolute worst time to try and make that claim is fresh after a McDonalds employee murders a customer and the national news is still talking about it.
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Show me anywhere near as many examples of McDonald’s employees failing to deescalate a situation as what’s in one week of reports posted in that comm.
What you’re trying to point out is just flat out dumb, and isn’t “hilarious”.
So you are saying that their de-escalation skills were not better than police? I would expect it to be against company policy to shoot a customer, but we’re talking about de-escalation skills here.
I’d say that the one case you have of a fast food worker shooting someone is not the same as the plethora of cases of police shooting people. More importantly though and the true subtext of this post, is that this employee got fired, arrested, and charged with murder instead of a receiving a paid vacation and a transfer to a new McDonalds two counties over.
Guess what? That single incident is in no way indicative of an overall tendency. Hundreds if not thousands of cops needlessly shooting people every single year, though? THAT’S a significant data point!
First of all I’m a mister, not a ma’am. Second of all, it’s a place to start and I never claimed otherwise.
Besides, accurate data is notoriously difficult to come by for many reasons including the fact that the main people who keep track of it are the same ones who conspire to cover as much of it up as possible.
The article says roughly 3 unjustified homicides a day, but with all the cop cover ups it could be several times that, so “hundreds if not thousands every year” is about as accurate an estimation of the number of needless shootings as you’re likely to get from anywhere 🤷
There was a Facebook post somewhere with the numbers and a tik tok of someone explaining why they are correct. These sources will make sense after you have enough hours of scrolling in the lemmy instance already provided to you.
With enough practice you will understand that we should just downvote and shun people who ask for sources. It saves so much time and helps to avoid understanding the world as it is.
2015 averaged four officer-involved homicides a day (an approximation based on those tracked by volunteers though news, incident reports and obituaries). That number has only increased since then. 2020 is regarded as an unusual year.
Also we learned that precinct coroners routinely cover for their brethren in blue, which may conceal considerably more slayings.