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.
Don’t forget trips to Israel to train with the IDF.
Hey, if you want to kill the most civilians for the lowest cost, you gotta train with the best!
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.
I was wondering about that camera
They stopped $1 Trillion of chocolate bars in this single bust!
Don’t forget the street value of the drug paraphernalia (sandwich bag)
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.
I’m with you, that it was mishandled and the cop who fired is incompetent, I’m with you that loss of life is terrible, I’m with you that setting up a sort of sting to buy 2 zoomer-bars is a waste of taxpayer money. It’s all an injustice. As I said before the victim might not even have known the guy was a cop…
But they didn’t kill him over “nothing” they killed him over the flee attempt.
The guy must have been a known drug dealer for them to bother setting up. And reminder, he had a loaded semi-auto rifle in the vehicle. Though it doesn’t say anything about the legality of that weapon.Anyway, here’s a scenario:
Man walks into convenience store.
Man shoplifts a chocolate bar.
Cop notices.
Cop says “hey stop”.
Man pulls hidden GRENADE from his pocket, pulls the pin, and attempts to throw at vicinity of cop.
Police shoot and kill man.The way you say your headline should read:
DOJ says police officer justified in killing man for shoplifting chocolate bar.I mean…c’mon.
they didn’t kill him over “nothing” they killed him over the flee attempt.
The decision was: do I let this kid get away with selling 2 shroom bars or do I deploy potentially lethal force?
If someone’s unnecessarily killed during say an armed robbery, they weren’t killed over nothing, even if they could’ve been arrested.
Police are empowered to use violence with the understanding that it will benefit society. And most will agree that preventing armed robbery has value.
This officer deployed violence to prevent a kid from getting away with selling 2 shroom bars. Without any personal threat. That has no value to society, nothing. And a kid was killed over it.
I don’t understand why the particular events that happened before that seem so important to you?
That wasn’t the decision. There’s not an ice cube’s chance in hell he went through the longer thought process it would take at the speed events unfolded to contemplate, “hmm, you know what, this kid has 2 whole mushroom bars in that car and he appears to be trying to leave with them, and he’s now accelerating towards me, or at least in such a close proximity to me that it’s now dangerous, probably not dangerous for my colleagues whom have just driven up because I can see the future like a Jedi all of a sudden and know what’s going to happen before it happens, but they still have those damn mushroom bars and my partner and I we’re going to split one of them after the bust and I owe him for talking that hooker he busted last weekend into getting let off in trade for giving me a free beeg behind Wendys, so I really need those mushroom bars and that’s totally the reason I better start blasting.”
😆The decision was, “suspect driving at me, he’s now a danger to me or my colleagues, shoot at danger.”
Don’t matter how they all got there.
Cops and correction officers are trained to take the decision making process out of the equation for faster reaction times.
I’m in no way saying that’s the best, or even a good-at-all way to train cops, but it’s predictable.So, what’d we all learn?
This cop in question certainly is a fuck up and should be fired, and charged for the extant he can be.
Officer training needs work.
2 mushroom bars remains a very stupid reason to arrest someone in the first place, and mushrooms should be legalized. But it doesn’t matter in this case because laws are laws.
The Victim was killed over attempting to flee, because we know now how cause-and-effect works, and the mushroom bars can’t be the cause because had he not fled, he wouldn’t have been shot at and killed.
Ops tag line was sensationalized to remove blame from the vic and add blame to the cops because, well they deserve it, but also because we’re in the police problem sub. It lacks though because, “2 magic mushroom chocolate bars” can be substituted with, “bust”, or, “drug deal gone wrong”, or, “waxing gibbous moon”…and those would all be valid, therefore if it’s any of them, it’s none.
They were there and present over mushroom bars, but the Victim was killed over ( what I’m sure the cop will say in court is) attempt vehicular homicide.
And, Don’t.fucking.run.from.cops. regardless of their training.
Cheers.
In your scenario, the police did not actively seek out the situation and then fuck it up.
In this scenario, they did
Lol. Ok, obv wrong sub for sense.
You compared throwing a grenade at a police officer to fleeing. If you say that two very different things are the same, people will probably point out that they are not.
That’s crazy. Why were the police in that situation where they killed him again?
Killed someone over a god damn candy bar.
Filled with the devils fungus, I’ll have you know!
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
Also we found those tasty chocolate bars and some money
Wait so they opened fire for him trying to excape???
Jesus fuck.
Was the chocolate bar shaped like a gun? No?
Also, isn’t homicide a crime?
They’re coming right for us! Kill em Ned!
They proudly never thought satire about justifying hunting would be a valid policing strategy.
Because simply jumping out of the way and performing a pesky chase is too hard.
Never run from cops. You’ll just die tired.
Was it an obvious cop?
Some unmarked truck shows up, blocks you, and dude jumps out with gun in hand?
Fleeing with your vehicle seems pretty on par for most people’s reaction.
Do cops like him get security guards after murdering someone?
Magic?
OP left out the part in the report where it says the officer fired after the car accelerated toward him.
Although, I would like to see any video/dashcam.
I also think it’s stupid that an undercover cop was going to do a drug bust on something rather innocuous.
OP left out the part in the report where it says the officer fired after the car accelerated toward him.
When a video shows exactly what the police claim, I’ll believe that. Not before.
OP left out the part in the report where it says the officer fired after the car accelerated toward him.
Because it’s an irrelevant lie.
After is true but damning and toward is a lie. The officer is securely out of the way and any danger has passed when he opens fire. The driver is clearly trying to get away, and drives past the officer not at him.
The ‘dodge’ the officer mentions is so small you can’t notice it in the bodycam footage. You see a side-step in the security cam footage, but the officer was clearly to the side of the victim’s car already at that point.
I would like to see any video/dashcam.
Both are in the link. 0:15-0:21 for the bodycam and 0:46 -0:51 for the security cam.
Indeed, it’s pretty clear in the video, which is at the very top of the article, that the car didn’t accelerate at the shooter.
Watch the video…the cop was out of the way of the car shooting into the side of it. Not only was he not in danger when murdering this person but also shot the passenger. Let the suspect get away and get them later they obviously panicked when the lights from the cops pulling up went off, no need to kill someone for some candy. They had enough information to put a warrant out after this interaction.
There are so many actually harmful drugs they could focus resources on, but these assholes chose to go after a kid selling mushrooms, instead. Its probably because they are too cowardly to go after actual scary drug dealers. They’d prefer to collect a paycheck, and go ruin some harmless psychedelic users’ lives. I don’t know how they sleep at night. It’s disgusting.
Psilocybin mushrooms are not ruining anyone’s lives.
Username checks out ✅
I’m also Clueless but this dude (the one you replying to) is just braindead.
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I think you replied to the wrong person mate.
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Let’s all make judgements based off incomplete data!
Nah, we’ll watch the two recordings instead I think.
Drive your car at a police officer
Didn’t happen.
I hope they release the footage
They did.
THEN press charges
They didn’t.
if warranted.
Very warranted. Still didn’t happen.
How are you still, in 2024, giving the police the benefit of the doubt even when there’s no doubt?
Ya got boot polish on your God damn nose
the footage is literally at the top of the article ya bootlicker.
Pretty gullible of you to believe that the car was driving at the officer just because the police said so.
Lick them boots!
Downvoting because the footage is right there
Surprised you can talk with that blue dick jammed in your mouth.
