“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?
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a policeman? racist? why, I'm shocked, I tell you, just shocked.
Who shot a teen as soon as he saw they were aboriginal? No way!
I'm not just glad this was finally put right but also-
In her findings, Judge Armitage found that Rolfe made a "series of flawed decisions" that led to "officer-induced jeopardy" - a situation where police "needlessly put themselves in danger... creating a situation that justifies the use of deadly force".
She also said Rolfe - a former soldier - found combat situations "exhilarating" and had an "attraction to adrenalin policing". He had also ignored an arrest plan for Walker created by a female officer because he "thought he knew better", Judge Armitage said.
We can finally start to well... police, police being adrenalin junkies and deliberately putting themselves in harms way.
Acquitted in 2022, seems like a retrial is in order. Corruption seems to be at play.
'racist' or just racist
The "racist" between quotes in the headline just means that that one word is a direct quote from someone or something, wheas the rest of the headline is paraphrased. In this case it's a direct quote from a coroner’s inquest by Judge Armitage.
I'm not a fan of this style of quoting, since writing singular words between quotes could easily also be read as insincerity or sarcasm. But it seems to be pretty common in English language media.
Edit: Judge Armitage also writes that this police officer being racist isn't just incidental, but rather that the police station he is working at apparently has a work-place culture that has normalised racism (as per the article)
Zach Rolf was stabbed by the man who he shot and shot him while he was attempting to stab a second police officer.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/body-worn-camera-footage-of-the-shooting-shown-in/13749690
All hard to see in the video but not exactly the way it's framed in the article
Just fully stealing this entire comment from @ms_lane@lemmy.world:
I'm not just glad this was finally put right but also-
In her findings, Judge Armitage found that Rolfe made a "series of flawed decisions" that led to "officer-induced jeopardy" - a situation where police "needlessly put themselves in danger... creating a situation that justifies the use of deadly force".
She also said Rolfe - a former soldier - found combat situations "exhilarating" and had an "attraction to adrenalin policing". He had also ignored an arrest plan for Walker created by a female officer because he "thought he knew better", Judge Armitage said.
We can finally start to well... police, police being adrenalin junkies and deliberately putting themselves in harms way.
A police officer was racist!?
In all seriousness I hope the family receives justice.

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