An undercover police officer arranged to buy 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars over Instagram then opened fire within seconds, killing the driver and injuring the passenger for selling $100 worth of antidepressants. Perfectly justified.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    An undercover officer had arranged to meet Edelmann in the 7-Eleven parking lot on South Maryland Avenue at 7:40 p.m. and purchase two chocolate bars infused with psychedelic mushrooms

    So… that’s what your police $$$ is going towards?

    Setting up sting operations over some mushroom chocolate bars?

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      8 months ago

      Not at all! Most of it goes to excessive force payoffs. And buying surplus military equipment like tanks.

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    8 months ago

    The 22 y/o wasn’t killed, “over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars”, he was killed because he accelerated his vehicle in an attempt to flee, and came somewhat close to hitting the officer.
    However, before the victim accelerated, the officer who shot the young man jumped out of the passenger door of an unmarked police truck and drew his weapon, no audio in the video.
    There’s a very real chance the victim did not know he was a cop, and panicked. He should be excused of that, had he lived.
    The officer fucked up hard, jumping out an unmarked vehicle with no emergency lights, waving a gun around?
    Fuck, I’d run over anyone who does that to me, and I think most would do similar.
    Then also not practicing restraint in firing his weapon after clearly no more danger existed once the car passed him, guy’s a fucking clown.
    The only reason the second police vehicle (which showed up from behind just as the victim accelerated) was even hit at all is because the victim had been shot and couldn’t steer the vehicle.
    The cop should be charged with second degree, or at minimum some kind of reckless endangerment resulting in death, and fired.