Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

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  • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
    52·
    4 months ago

    There are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.

    Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
      32·
      4 months ago

      There are not varying degrees of death.

      They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).

      You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right to what he implied.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
        41·
        4 months ago

        I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm. They’re lethal less often.

        Oh and some sauce: 500 deaths over a decade is near 1 death a week on average.