Debate: Suicide By Cop is a BS term

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I've noticed that while I think cops do deserve the right to engage suspects with deadly force after all other options are exhausted, I think calling these things as "suicide by cop" just removes cops from the ENTIRE equation and places even more undue blame on the suspect for what happens to them.

Some disturbed people do approach cops wanting to get hurt, but that doesn't mean getting hurt HAS to be the outcome or that cops are automatically limited to hurting the suspect.

Its WAY too overused and I think there needs to be a campaign to reclaim the word "suicide" instead of trying to push this non-sense that cops don't just flat out kill people sometimes.

 

[Just like bruddas]

Not when none lethal force can be used...

 

[no.]

No, suicide by cop does not exist. What does exist are certain situations where cops are authorized to kill. Suicide has nothing to do with it.

The bullshyt ideas americans come up with to sound righteous, I swear. Try to say suicide by cop around here, everybody would look at you like The cop's killing people, he just so happens to get away with it in our system.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

No, suicide by cop does not exist. What does exist are certain situations where cops are authorized to kill. Suicide has nothing to do with it.

I'm noticing the term get thrown around a lot especially with the video of the kid who got killed by cops on the street last week (not mike brown)

Spoiler: NSFW

People are calling it suicide by cop...why can't it be: Cops shoot man who they deemed to be a threat?

Was this dude truly looking to be killed? Was he not maybe mentally unstable or downright crazy? Why call it a suicide?

Telling cops to "shoot you" doesn't mean they always have to.

Its just sheer propaganda. Look how quickly people are to call it "suicide by cop" then write it off as no big deal.

 

[Smoke]

No, suicide by cop does not exist. What does exist are certain situations where cops are authorized to kill. Suicide has nothing to do with it.

The bullshyt ideas americans come up with to sound righteous, I swear. Try to say suicide by cop around here, everybody would look at you like The cop's killing people, he just so happens to get away with it in our system.

+1

 

[The 2020 New Member]

If you do something with the intention of dying then I would say it's a suicide. I'm not sure about overuse because I have not heard this term in quite some time.

 

[Audemar]

Suicide by cop is rightly referred to as person who wishes to commit suicide by inciting a cop to use deadly force. The means of inciting can be different, but in order to use the term "suicide by cop," the individual who incites the cop to take action must have had a desire to commit suicide. A random man killed by a police officer after shooting up a police station, with no desire to commit suicide, cannot be accused of wanting a suicide by cop scenario.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Suicide by cop is rightly referred to as person who wishes to commit suicide by inciting a cop to use deadly force. The means of inciting can be different, but in order to use the term "suicide by cop," the individual who incites the cop to take action must have had a desire to commit suicide. A random man killed by a police officer after shooting up a police station, with no desire to commit suicide, cannot be accused of wanting a suicide by cop scenario.

The fact cops CHOOSE to shoot someone means its not suicide, no matter how much of a defensive action it is.

 

[Smoke]

I'm noticing the term get thrown around a lot especially with the video of the kid who got killed by cops on the street last week (not mike brown)

Spoiler: NSFW

People are calling it suicide by cop...why can't it be: Cops shoot man who they deemed to be a threat?

Was this dude truly looking to be killed? Was he not maybe mentally unstable or downright crazy? Why call it a suicide?

Telling cops to "shoot you" doesn't mean they always have to.

Its just sheer propaganda. Look how quickly people are to call it "suicide by cop" then write it off as no big deal.

I read somewhere that he was mentally ill, not sure of the source. What bothered me the most about this video is that they shot him 9 times over a situation that could've easily been handled with a single shot at the very most.

But does that qualify as suicide by cops, not even close. It was 2 of them together, they could've apprehended him pretty easily if they so chose.

 

[Audemar]

The fact cops CHOOSE to shoot someone means its not suicide, no matter how much of a defensive action it is.

In a true suicide by cop scenario, the cops don't choose to shoot anyone. Once any individual opens fire on an officer, that officer is then authorized to use necessary force and rightly so. Do you expect the cops to just stand there while being shot at?

 

[The 2020 New Member]

The fact cops CHOOSE to shoot someone means its not suicide, no matter how much of a defensive action it is.

It's still a suicide attempt. Not a practical choose for ending one's life but it's still suicide to willingly aggravate someone into killing you. Are you saying that every time a police officer shoots someone it is (attempted) murder?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

In a true suicide by cop scenario, the cops don't choose to shoot anyone. Once any individual opens fire on an officer, that officer is then authorized to use necessary force and rightly so. Do you expect the cops to just stand there while being shot at?

Why use the word suicide?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It's still a suicide attempt. Not a practical choose for ending one's life but it's still suicide to willingly aggravate someone into killing you. Are you saying that every time a police officer shoots someone it is (attempted) murder?

Do you know what suicide is or are you buying into the propaganda?

Whats stopping you from calling when the cops shoot someone an attempted suicide by cop?

 

[intruder]

It does exists. Might be overused but yeah it exists.

 

[SoulController]

nah this is a very real thing. some people want out but wont do it themselves

the guy that held up a Wal Mart recently, forget which state, pointed a rifle directly at an officer but didn't shoot. he knew what was going to happen, just wanted to go