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| Topic | Teacher says Floyd would be ALIVE if he just COMPLIED and Dressed APPROPRIATELY |
| adjl 05/08/21 9:57:01 AM #45: | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... So when more police are called and kill the individual they'll be justified in doing it. I suppose it would no longer be mistreatment. Justified in killing somebody who used lethal force because they reasonably felt their life was unjustly threatened? That's not how self-defense works. Victim blaming is only ever a band-aid solution. Victims taking steps to reduce their likelihood of being victimized may help prevent the issue on a personal level, but that's very unreliable, and the logic of leaving it entirely to them can only lead to escalation if followed through to its natural conclusion (that is, taking whatever steps are necessary to minimize the risk). If you want to solve the problem, you need to treat the root of it, which is eliminating cops that are prone to inappropriate violence. That's really all there is to it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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