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TopicMinnesota police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter.
ScazarMeltex
04/14/21 8:09:54 PM
#165:


UnfairRepresent posted...
Yeah I agree with this.

"If he just obeyed he wouldn't have been murdered" is such a fucked up thing to say.

1. Even non compliance shouldn't result in being shot unless the perp is literally being violent (and even then context matters)
2. There are so many cases of people complying or being yelled contradictory instructions just being shot at....

It's really just saying "I don't care if cops kill people, those guys probably were dirtbags anyway if the cops were involved with them."

Which is just morally wrong.

I live in the UK and the amout of apathy and direct resentiment displayed towards George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery is disturbing

And yes I know Ahmaud Arbery wasn't shot by a cop but the same "If he didn't run at the dudes driving after him, screaming while waving shot guns, he wouldn't have died. I'd have shot him too if he ran at me!" is everywhere
One of the most fucked up things about Arbery was that if he had been armed, shot and killed the two dudes confronting him, he would have been protected under the state's self defense laws. Technically anyway, some states have a habit of denying such defense to black people.

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