This is nuts. Okay, it’s nut (singular). A guy who trains the San Jose Police Department on racial bias had his testicle exploded when he approached a group of officers firing rubber bullets to disperse a riotous crowd. Perhaps the police department should have trained this guy in basic self-preservation techniques in return for his services. “Hands up, don’t shoot” leaves the junk completely unprotected.
Fox News reports:
A black community activist who trained San Jose police recruits on implicit bias for three years was shot in a testicle by a rubber bullet during a recent protest, prompting the city’s mayor to say that more needs to be done to confront police brutality…
Derrick Sanderlin, a 27-year-old community organizer, suffered potentially permanent injuries by a rubber bullet at a May 29 protest demonstration…
As rioting and looting was raging in the city, Sanderlin had the brilliant idea of approaching a group of officers who were firing rubber bullets at the unruly mob.
“I really just couldn’t watch it anymore and just kind of made like a parallel walkover, put my hands up, and just stood in the line of the fire and asked them to please not do this,” said Sanderlin.
In the least shocking thing ever, Sanderlin was struck in the groin area after walking directly into the line of fire. After the rubber bullet hit him in the nut, there was a delayed reaction before his balls could tell his brain what happened.
“I pause for a moment like maybe this isn’t, maybe this doesn’t hurt and falling afterwards is like the most painful experience,” Sanderlin said.
Sanderlin, who required emergency surgery on his testicle, said doctors told him they wouldn’t be able to tell if the injury rendered him unable to father children until he and his wife tried to conceive.
“And I just started weeping at the thought of that. You know, we, we do want kids and we’re very close to having kids,” said Sanderlin’s white wife Cayla.
Then again, maybe not.
The riot in question was so bad that the Chief of Police described it as a “war zone.” Mobs of people were looting and destroying property. The police were tasked with restoring order and public safety. Sanderlin walked into the line of fire under his own sense of self-righteousness. Some people would say that his exploded testicle is his own damn fault.
One of the people who wouldn’t say that is his lawyer because he is suing the city and the police department over this.
“[Officers] were aiming for a body part that is prohibited when using those type of riot guns. You’re not meant to aim at the groin or the head ever,” said attorney Sarah Marinho.
Those type of riot guns are non-rifled tubes that fire a flat cylindrical rubber projectiles. There is no aiming or accuracy with these things. They are meant to be used on large unruly crowds, not for sniping.
What we’ve seen with George Floyd’s death and the subsequent civil unrest is that leftists want us to believe that black people failing to take basic steps in self-preservation is “systemic racism.” Don’t want to get beat by a cop? Don’t resist arrest. Don’t want your testicle exploded by a rubber bullet? Don’t walk into the line of fire when cops are using them to disperse a riot. It’s really quite simple.
