🧩 BND Motif Index · M795
Trigger-happy
Police are said to open fire with no care for who is in the way, a child in the car, a crowded street: shoot first, ask later.
📜 Plots🗂️ Crime and punishment
- 5claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Police power abuse
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Police accountability Police accountability answers Trigger-happy
⏱️ answered 6 days after this was first told here (2026-10-09 → 2026-10-15)
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Emboldened
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-21
- 📰 ICE agents shoot man in New York City 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-12
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-21 “Mississippi's attorney general ruled the fatal police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “A Mississippi officer shot and killed a one-year-old boy after suspecting his mother of shoplifting diapers.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “ICE agents shot an undocumented immigrant in a vehicle while a child was present.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-11 “ICE agents are violent criminals or serial killers who use their positions to kill people and use 'threatened lives' as a false excuse for their actions.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “Plainclothes officers shot at a car with a 5-year-old child inside.” 🧶 people online
M795 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-28 · what this is · how the index works