The story about the officer whose “gun went off” gets better and better. From the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/nyregion/nypd-columbia-shooting-hamilton.html): “The officer, who was not identified, was approaching a barricade on the first floor of Hamilton Hall when he fired his gun, which had a flashlight on it, the police said.” Apparently, the NYPD doesn't believe in stand-alone flashlights or miner's lights on their helmets, and of course safeties have to be off to use the flashlight function. https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/112374521412998273
Of course, the police will add the charge of negligent discharge of a firearm by proxy to some protester's case.
Because if people weren't exercising First Amendment rights by protesting, the police would not have been armed for battle and in a hair-trigger stance.
Blame must be shifted away from the state whenever possible. /s
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