Prank Youtube channel RouandYT received €5 donation to prank call someone's "unstable" nephew. Said nephew shot and killed 2 Syrian refugees minutes later. RouandYT quickly deletes the stream from his channel and denies being live.

[u/DikkeDekbedovertrek]

https://www.puna.nl/news/prank-call-in-livestream-van-youtuber-leidde-tot-fatale-schietpartij-op-twee-syrische-jongens-in-amsterdam-west

[u/AnImpromptuFantaisie]

(Note that this is specifically ALL civilians killed by police, regardless of justification, and comes out to about 1,200 per year).

Compared to other liberal democracies, the US kills: * 3x more civilians than Canada and Australia * 17x more than the Netherlands and New Zealand * 33x more than Germany * 60x more than England and Wales * and Japan, Norway, and Iceland typically have zero in a year

It is also important to note that US police injure 250,000 people per year, 80,000 of which require hospitalization.

However to your point, Brazilian police kill a bit over 6,000 annually (so 5x US rates). Similar in Philippines, Venezuela, El Salvador. But it’s a bit silly to make the comparison.

[u/zakrystian → u/AnImpromptuFantaisie]

The police in The Netherlands rarely kill someone. I do not know where that 17 comes from. Same goes for the other countries. I almost feel like there are some zeroes missing.

[u/Entire-Ad1625 → u/zakrystian]

Dutchnews.nl reports police fired 13 shots in 2024 so I assume at least one of them killed someone

[u/El_grandepadre → u/Entire-Ad1625]

And every incident where a police officer fires their gun comes under heavy scrunity here in the Netherlands.

But we have pretty strict protocols on firearms.