The cops should be charged and sentenced to a gen pop institution for this.

But instead abso-fucking-lutely nothing will happen to them.

As always, ACAB.

My grandma was a nurse in the iron lung wards back in the 40s and 50s. The stories she would tell would send shivers down your spine.

Good luck America. You’re gonna be all on your own soon enough.

You came damn close to it at least.

Having a non verbal child does not make you an expert in protocols.

While I agree with you in a general sense, the fact this occured in an educational setting with children would seem to indicate staff should have a hightened sense of compassion and the needs of the kids, and therefore wouldn’t sit around eating lunch and giggling while a child writhes and screams in pain on the floor for 2 hours.

then what should I do?

What did you do when you heard about PFAS/PFOS contamination?

The evidence agrees with you.

Pickard, the Harvard University postdoc, said there are reasons not to compare TFA to many other PFAS based on current information about health risks. But she disputed the notion that most TFA in the environment is naturally occurring.

While she was a master’s student at Memorial University in Canada, Pickard studied PFAS concentrations in ice cores in the Canadian Arctic. She first planned to measure for the “typical suite of PFAS” but decided to also look for very small forever chemicals like TFA, she said.

In an ensuing 2020 research paper, she and other researchers found that TFA concentrations increased in the ice cores “with the exact timing” of when new refrigeration gases were introduced after the Montreal Protocol, she said. Signed in 1987, the treaty spurred nations to phase out ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), leading to the rise of new substances for refrigeration and cooling.

“In these remote regions, I was basically able to say that TFA was coming from these CFC replacements,” Pickard said.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/youve-probably-never-heard-of-this-forever-chemical-scientists-say-its-everywhere/

Yup, and FF Nightly, DDG and Ghostery too.

Obviously they failed at creating anything remotely ‘safe and secure’.

I mean a few simple rules should suffice, like “if a child falls and shatters their leg, staff should immediately call the parents and the ambulance”.

Sorry, I learned long ago to the take “police reports” with a pound of salt. As far as I’m concerned those are not a trusted source for facts.

If they released the body camera footage, that’s a different story. But they didn’t, did they?

No, the source doesn’t say “it’s ok”. The source does state that the EU has put new, much lower limits on the chemical but they don’t go into effect until 2026.

The saying is old, not the film.

According to the article the only thing they cops said/yelled to the guy was to drop the weapon.

And a “sense of urgency” to get the guy out of the building would preclude the cops from spending 35 minutes using him as target practice.

Thank you.

Just want to clarify your position here … you seem to be saying that a recognized forever chemical mostly used in pesticides in the EU, which is due to have its limits dropped in 2026, isn’t causing any problems currently because the EU hasn’t forced the limits to be dropped now?

Because Canada has pretty strong gun laws and rules for ownership. They tend to weed out a lot of people from buying/owning a weapon.

If they had a half hour to use the guy for target practice, they could have used that time to talk him down instead.

Or does that make too much sense?

who is right is not on the side of random lemmy poster in this case.

Looking at you, kid.

It’s like that old saying … Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

Thank you for that explanation and extra source.

Nevertheless, each of the mineral waters tested- even the one with the highest measured contamination of 3,200 ng/l - complies with most of the current human health guideline values set by various authorities in the EU ».

So it is contaminated but within acceptable limits. Traces beside a few brands that have larger traces still within those limits.

I looked through many of the links in the article but can’t find this info you quoted. Please verify your source.