cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15313778

Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.

Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.

He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene.

    See, being a man isn’t always advantageous.

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          I upvoted, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a clash of worldviews. I think it’s the “boo-hoo poor me I’m a man” sentiment that I initially felt reading that, even as a man. It’s giving men’s rights at face value. Then I realized that yeah, this is one of the few instances where being a man–or more specifically being a man caught fighting a woman–will likely get you harmed or killed regardless of everything else.

          But who knows, maybe it’s just me and people have other motives.

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            1 month ago

            Neutral onlooker and cis male here.

            I think it’s the “boo-hoo poor me I’m a man” sentiment that I initially felt reading that, even as a man.

            I felt the same way. Ok, yea we have the disadvantage of being seen as the bigger threat by other males? Because we typically are? Because of some of the many advantages we have as men?

            It feels weird to even call this a disadvantage, because it comes from having a bunch of advantages, if that makes any sense. We wouldn’t have a disadvantage here if we didn’t have natural advantages, in the first place.

            Besides, this particular situation didn’t have as much to do with his gender disadvantage as his racial disadvantage, anyways. It was all exacerbated by the disadvantage of the cop having no discernible brain cells.

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      You have an almost pathological need to create subtext where none exists

      But that’s literally what you just did…?

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        No, I don’t think I did. I think I’m just better at correctly identifying subtext that actually exists.