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.
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?
Not at all! Most of it goes to excessive force payoffs. And buying surplus military equipment like tanks.
Even worse is the prostitute stings they proudly show on COPS. They pretend to be John’s and make agreed deals with consenting adults and then say ‘haha we’re actually the police, not some guy who wanted to fuck you and you’re under arrest for merely agreeing to have sex for money’.
Like what an absolute fucking waste of time, money and people’s lives.
As always, ACAB.
And RIP to Andrew Edelmann. He didn’t deserve to murdered by a cop.
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.
“over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars” in the sense that that’s what was at stake, that was the reason for the whole thing. “used as a function word to indicate the object of an … activity” to quote Miriam Webster.
You describe quite well how the officers’ plans and actions made this outcome more likely. And how these failures put them in a position to kill a kid they were only there to bust for 2 shroom bars anyway.
Yeah gonna have to disagree with you on that.
The way that that is worded is exactly what I wanted to draw attention to.
That MW definition (preposition 7b) shows examples, “trouble over money” and, “met with advisors over lunch”.
For this, “over” can be substituted with, “because of” for the former but not the later.
Op means to incite emotional response from readers by using the “because of” version. And even if cops are fucked, that’s bullshit to not show all sides of the story.
That’s some Fox News shit.
You could say they were “set up” over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars. But not killed over. The chocobars didn’t even come into play for the killing. They were just the reason all parties were there.
It could have happened over an M&M, or a dirty briefcase nuke, just the same.
To make a tag line to imply it was over something petty seems to be intentional to belittle law enforcement, and is just part of the agenda for Op, whether it be controversy for the upvotes, or actual distrust or hate for cops, whatever.
The killing happened because of the shitty decisions by both the victim and the killer.
I’d like to point out I think very poorly of this cop. Wrongdoing by law enforcement should be called out. Killing should be punished.
But I mean…, I’ve been put in the drunk tank before and I’ll tell you right now, cops doing their job can work totally fine if you don’t resist, and don’t try to flee. If a cop says get on the ground and you do and you shut the fuck up, you’re likelyhood to not be shot, or even treated that badly, goes way the fuck up.
Op means to incite emotional response from readers by using the “because of” version.
No I don’t.
I mean to invite emotional response using the meaning I just explained above - cops planned to arrest someone over nothing, and their incompetence lead to killing him over nothing.
If it was just because they had 2 shroom bars, that would be extrajudicial execution. That’s Duterte level policing and would be a national story.
The pointlessness of this arrest should be emotional - it’s an obvious injustice. The police set up a potentially deadly situation with no potential value to society. The standard mamallian response to being cornered was all it took to escalate this to fatal. Over nothing.
bullshit to not show all sides of the story.
That’s some Fox News shit.
Nope, one side is objectively lying about the facts. Repeating the lies of the powerful is some fox news shit. I’m gonna to stick to presenting the facts - cops planned to arrest someone over nothing, and their incompetence lead to killing him over nothing.
Killed someone over a god damn candy bar.
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
