Armed Police Swarm Student After AI Mistakes Bag of Doritos for a Weapon

* Even hundreds of cops in full body armor and armed with automatic guns will not dare to engage a single "lone wolf" shooter doing a killing spree in a school; the heartless cowards may even prevent the parents from going inside to rescue their kids: Uvalde school shooting incident

* Cop on a ego trip, will shoot down a clearly harmless kid calmly eating a burger in his own car (not a stolen car): Erik Cantu incident

* Cops are not there to serve the society, they are not there to ensure safety and peace for the neighborhood, they are merely armed militia to protect the rich and powerful elites: https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/supreme-court-cops-protect-...

> The Department of School Safety and Security quickly reviewed and canceled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon. I contacted our school resource officer (SRO) and reported the matter to him, and he contacted the local precinct for additional support. Police officers responded to the school, searched the individual and quickly confirmed that they were not in possession of any weapons.

What's unclear to me is the information flow. If the Department of School Safety and Security recognized it as a false positive, why did the principal alert the school resource officer? And what sort of telephone game happened to cause local police to believe the student was likely armed?

1. https://www.wbaltv.com/article/student-handcuffed-ai-system-...

Meanwhile, tons of you watched star trek and apparently learned(?) that the "bright future" it promised us was.... talking computers? And not, you know, post scarcity and enlightenment that allowed people to focus on things that brought them joy or they were good at, and an entire elimination of the concept of "capitalism" or personal profit or resource disparity that could allow people to not be able to afford something while some asshole in the right place at the right time gets to take a percentage cut of the entire economy for their personal use.

The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol.

It's sadly the exact future that we are already starting to live in.

Why do you believe this? In the US, cops will cower outside of a school with an armed gunman actively murdering children, forcibly detain parents who wish to go in if the cops wont, and then re-elect everyone involved

In the US, an entire segment of the population will send you death threats claiming you are part of some grand (democrat of course) conspiracy for the crime of being a victim of a school shooting. After every school shooting, republican lawmakers wear an AR-15 pin to work the next day to ensure you know who they care about.

Over 50% of the country blamed the protesting students at Kent state for daring to be murdered by the national guard.

Cops can shoot people in broad daylight, in the back, with no justification, or reasonable cause, or can even barge into entirely the wrong house and open fire on homeowners exercising their basic right to protect themselves from strangers invading their homes, and as long as the people who die are mostly black, half the country will spout crap like "They died from drugs" or "they once sold a cigarette" or "he stole skittles" or "they looked at my wife wrong" while the cops take selfies reenacting the murder for laughs and talk about how terrified they are by BS "training" that makes them treat every stranger as a wanted murderer armed to the teeth. The leading cause of death for cops is still like heart disease of course.

Trump sent unmarked forces to Portland and abducted people off the street into unmarked vans and I think we still don't really know what happened there? He was re-elected.

The technology literally can NEVER be there. It is completely impossible to positively identify a bulge in clothing as a handgun. But that doesn’t stop irresponsible salesmen from making the claim anyway.

I started looking at people trying to decide who looked juicy to the security folks and getting in line behind them. They can’t harass two people in rapid succession. Or at least not back then.

The one I felt most guilty about, much later, was a filipino woman with a Philippine passport. Traveling alone. Flying to Asia (super suspect!). I don’t know why I thought they would tag her, but they did. I don’t fly well and more stress just escalates things, so anything that makes my day tiny bit less shitty and isn’t rude I’m going to do. But probably her day would have been better for not getting searched than mine was.

Would probably eliminate the need for the TSA security theater so that will probably never happen.

Not sure, but I bet they were looking at their feet kinda dusting off the bottoms, making awkward eye contact with the security guard on the other side of the one way door.

Also, no need to escalate this into a race issue.

Sure, can't argue with that. But doesn't it bug you just a little that (paying a fee to avoid harassment) doesn't look all that disimilar from a protection racket? As to whether it's a few bucks or many, now you're just a mark negotiating the price.

This case was a horrifying failure of the entire system that up until that point had fairly decent results for children who end up having to be taken away from their parents and later returned once the Mom/Dad clean up their act.

> Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement in a letter to parents, offering counseling services to students impacted by the incident.

(Emphasis mine)