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🪦 Man Told Dispatch He Wanted ‘SUICIDE BY COP.’

🚔 The FWPD Came on a 'Welfare Check' & Shot him.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The Fort Wayne Police Department released video Friday from a deadly police-action shooting in May: https://www.21alivenews.com/2026/07/17/fwpd-releases-video-police-action-shooting-man-told-dispatcher-he-wanted-suicide-by-cop/

#Cops #WelfareCheck #DeathByCop #FWPD #FortWayne #Indiana #MentalHealthCrisis #PoliceShooting #SuicideWatch #Police #Cops

Yesterday's Midweek MediaWatch covered the decision by police not to prosecute Stuff for publishing anonymised audio of the cops during the final minutes of Tom Phillips' life;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=22b39814-2065-4113-a6bd-587235737567

I guess the cops haven't heard of the Streisand Effect. Because the first thing I did upon learning that they didn't want it published, was to go listen to it;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360819884/police-audio-end-tom-phillips-chase

I doubt I'm the only one who did.

#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #Stuff #StreisandEffect #DeathByCop #TomPhillips

Yesterday's Midweek MediaWatch covered the decision by police not to prosecute Stuff for publishing anonymised audio of the cops during the final minutes of Tom Phillips' life;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=22b39814-2065-4113-a6bd-587235737567

I guess the cops haven't heard of the Streisand Effect. Because the first thing I did upon learning that they didn't want it published, was to go listen to it;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360819884/police-audio-end-tom-phillips-chase

I doubt I'm the only one who did.

#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #Stuff #StreisandEffect #DeathByCop #TomPhillips

@Trillium Has #DeathByCop become OK in Canada 🇨🇦? #TylerNicholsDeathByCop

@Trillium Has #DeathByCop become OK in Canada 🇨🇦? #TylerNicholsDeathByCop