RE: How to end police shootings in one easy step.
July 21, 2016 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2016 at 6:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Oh good god. So as long as I didn't intend to go and murder my wife when I left my house in the morning....that I murdered her later that afternoon is a mulligan?
Provided I'm a cop, I guess? They shoot to kill. Not to disarm, or maim, or stop you from running...as people sometimes woefully imagine. In any case, just a few pages back (think it was this thread...?)...we had a link from a blogger who was a cop in the UK for some time. Seems like people resist over there too, just....without getting shot for it. It;s pretty easy to understand why people would resist...maybe even more so if you happen to be a young black male in america. In the same vein as not expecting cops to be anything other than human, probably shouldn't expect the suspects to be anything other than human.
You see, they both make mistakes, clearly. Now, though..."mistakes" are justification for extrajudicial killing, not for the cops..mind you, they get a mulligan.
Provided I'm a cop, I guess? They shoot to kill. Not to disarm, or maim, or stop you from running...as people sometimes woefully imagine. In any case, just a few pages back (think it was this thread...?)...we had a link from a blogger who was a cop in the UK for some time. Seems like people resist over there too, just....without getting shot for it. It;s pretty easy to understand why people would resist...maybe even more so if you happen to be a young black male in america. In the same vein as not expecting cops to be anything other than human, probably shouldn't expect the suspects to be anything other than human.
You see, they both make mistakes, clearly. Now, though..."mistakes" are justification for extrajudicial killing, not for the cops..mind you, they get a mulligan.
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