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| Topic | Protesting in Pittsburgh over Black Teen shot by Cop |
| Inviso 06/25/18 7:47:40 AM #132: | Maybe, just maybe, we think that if a police officer is going to be tasked with the responsibility of shooting/killing bad guys, maybe just maybe s/he should be held to just a little bit of a higher standard when a weapon is discharged and a person is killed. You seem to hold the opinion that the police are 100% above the law, which is what leads certain communities (you'll complain that I'm making this about race, but whatever) to become instinctively fearful for their own lives when confronted by a police officer. And that agitation leads to the police becoming more trigger happy for their own safety, which leads to the public becoming more fearful of police, which just continues a downward spiral that is going to make things worse and worse. Police hold a LOT of power under the current police vs. public dynamic, and they need more accountability, rather than finding every single justification possible to absolve them of all guilt. --- Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier. Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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