Police Shooting-Plagued Albuquerque to Host Police Shooting Tourney

[drray23]

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Source: gawker

It might be a good time for the homeless, or teenagers, or Latinos, or African-Americans, or…actually, shit, pretty much everybody in Albuquerque to get out of town because about 500 cops from across the nation and beyond are set to descend on New Mexico's largest city to play with their guns.



Read more: http://thewest.gawker.com/police-shooting-plagued-albuquerque-to-host-police-shoo-1628583070/+laceydonohue

[malthaussen]

1. Okay. "Police pistol combat tournament."

That is the problem right there. Police are civilians, not soldiers, and what they do in the line of duty is not "combat."

-- Mal

[TygrBright]

2. Dear god, WHO thought this was a good idea? n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. We're locking this because it doesn't conform with the LBN SOP.

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