Paramedics reported that Perrotta declined treatment in the ambulance.
“I am fine, I just needed to get out of here,” she said, according to the report. Another officer described Perrotta at the time as “visibly hysterical (crying and breathing rapidly) and had blood all over her uniform”, the report said.
im done with lemmy for a long while as of this post. I realize you cant just bury your head in the sand, but lemmy finds every horrible thing and thats essentially the entire timeline. individual communities don’t have enough activity to be worth checking very often imo.
this cop took an ambulance to get out of there after someone was shot. great. now I know this shitty thing happened. this is just a "here’s another thing that happened on the other side of the world that’ll make you feel hopeless and despondent. ive had enough for real.
i used to doom scroll a lot because i also had a generally hopeless and despondent feeling like you’re having right now.
lemmy taught me that the indoctrination that i received as a liberal born and raised in the united states left me unable to contextualize and understand the onslaught of horrible things happening all over this planet every day. it gave me the intellectual guidelines and tools that showed me how to analyze and appreciate what’s happening in this world so that i can stop doom scrolling.
here’s an updated and shortened list of what i’ve been learning: https://lemmy.ml/post/43309494
No need to quit Lemmy.
There are sub-lemmies that are dedicated to only positive things, like cats. Sub to a bunch of them and then go into your profile and set up your default home page to be only channels you’re subbed to, and you’ll see all happy stuff when you log on.
In this case avoiding news from the United States of America is an easy fix as this community is literally called “[email protected]”. It’s very easy to block.
You need to be the change you want to see my friend, but it’s also good to take a break from the internetz