Personally as a teenager I’ve been met with a group of cops all pointing guns at me when I was just walking around at night with no weapons whatsoever. They got a call from a paranoid homeowner nearby. They’re trained to shoot first and ask questions later.

Actually same happened to me - small group of friends maybe ~14 years old walking around late at night through our middle-class very safe neighborhood.

Two cops in a car rolled up and jumped out of the car with guns drawn and screamed at us to put our hands up because we “looked suspicious”.

They then asked us what we were doing, we said “walking home”, and they put their guns away and said “be safe out there, we didn’t realize you were kids”.

Absolutely no idea why it warranted guns pointed at us

> They’re trained to shoot first and ask questions later.

If this was true, would you have survived?