Blue Lives Don't Exist

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And yet you defend the cops by sarcastically suggesting that he was ‘reaching for a box of puppies.’ Since - as you rightly say - we don’t have all the details, maybe he was reaching for his ID. Maybe he was leaning in to calm is his kids. Maybe he was reaching for a gun.

Why is it that you’re allowed to assume the best about the cops based on little evidence, but I’m not allowed to assume the worst on the same basis?

Smacks of hypocrisy, that does.

Boru

I use sarcasm because it shows the flip side -

You say I assume the best of the cops - but that is the same thinking that got us "Not voting for Hillary is a vote for Trump".

I do NOT assume the best of cops. Cops are just as capable of fuckery as any other group of people.

I simply state that we do not have enough information in this case to make an informed judgement -as is usually the case for this sort of thing.

Oh, horseshit. Every single time this sort of thing comes up on the forum, you presumptively assume the cops are in the right, while excoriating people who assume the cops are in the wrong. It’s like everyone’s crystal ball is cracked but yours.

Boru