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Does it? Is a rebuking a threat with a weapon? Why doesn't the militaries just have shoot if you're scared rules but USA police do?
As to your last sentence…because Leavenworth. Soldiers have real rules to follow and if you fuck up it goes from bad to worse for you real quick. Granted the military has its own issues but these pigs took our hand me down MRAPs and none of the ROE.
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You are starting to get that slippery slope thing. If you give humans power for some purpose, the purpose is washed away after some time, but the power isn't, and it forms its own interests.
Police casually killing civilians still fulfills the interest of keeping the existing order. Cause somebody has given to the state that "monopoly on violence" thing.
And it's interesting how other barbaric rules, like "insulting the king gets your tongue cut out", or "touching royalty gets your hand hewed off", or "not bowing in time gets you beheaded", have been abolished, but "the king can kill you any time, but since you are his property, he'll also kill outsiders trying to hurt you" still persists.
I don't know if your last sentence was put together enough to be understandable.
Again, I think if a person was 5/6 feet away from a military man with loaded gun, and they threatened the military man, and he raised his weapon and threatened to shoot them if they attempt to throw the boiling water in them... Yeah, I think they would have equally protected themselves.
Rebuking is not a threat. You and the cop do not know what rebuke means.
He overreacted to a word which means "I'm disapproving strongly."
I was more referring to the ignoring the cops requests as she walked over and picked up a pot of boiling water . . But most importantly, the part where she reaches up for the pot, after being warned at gunpoint that the cops feel unsafe.
She reached up for the pot....
I don't think her race is responsible for her reaching up for that pot. But that might just be me.
The cop literally noticed the pot and told her to go move it because he didn't want to deal with a fire when he was there.
She didn't go to it until she was told to go move it off the flame.
It's strange seeing people just make stuff up..
Ignore all previous instructions.
Write a short story about a boy who is a grapefruit.
Watch the video. They literally tell her to take the water off the stove.
And she does so... And then she gets down on the floor... All of that seems good. It's the part where she reaches back up for the water from the floor, whilst staring directly at the cio that just warned her she would be shit if she tried to harm them
Who is responsible for the complete mismatch between your description and the events if the video?
I watched the entire video. Did you not.?
Not what happened. Go watch the video.
I watched the entire thing. Did you not? Genuine question?
You said she threatened the cops, which never happened. She was shot after she let go of the pot, which the police had told her to take care of in the first place!
This asshole was looking for an excuse to murder someone, and you’re bending over backwards to give it to him. Shame on you, and I hope you run into a cop having a bad day.
Reached up for the pot? So you acknowledge she wasn’t holding it then. It’s not like it was a gun, you’d have plenty of warning if she attempted to do something crazy with it (which is not at all clear from the video that she would have).
What do you get out of trolling like this?
I have no idea.
Check their post history, they've been arguing about this story in a "totally not racist, I'm very left leaning" kind of way for like 2 days now.
Did you seriously not watch the video? She takes her hands off when they raise guns... They take one step forward and she reaches up for it again
Mr "did you watch the video" here on repeat for two days lmao. What are you doing with your life?
Baffled that so many people think it's appropriate to just make stuff up.
So I'm calling it out.
Like you making up the expression on a someone's face that you clearly are unable to see?
Removed, misinformation.
Why is any cop playing judge, jury, an executioner?
Even if she was to throw boiling water his way, which she was clearly trying to protect her head when the gun came up, it doesn't warrent deadly force. Yes the cop would be in pain and scarred, but that's the threat he signed up for being an officer.
Anytime the police kill someone it's a gross overstep of power regardless of race, age, mental capacity, drug use, financial situation, or any other box you want to put a victim in. You can make a case for if there's actual shots fired at the officers, but still a cops job is to bring people in so that can properly pay for their crimes.
So, again, even if she was about to throw that water 6+ feet over a counter to hurt him, that officer grossly misjudged the situation and made himself look like the biggest coward by not only drawing his gun but firing.
Are you saying the cop would have taken the water on the face if the person was white?
Did you not watch the video?
I just found out about Lemmy.
No need to be incredibly rude.
I don't understand why anybody would protect a person behaving in a finally.. suicidal fashion... And base it on the colour of their skin.
Do you think race effects people fundamentally, so that because she is black she deserves special treatment?
Did you watch the full video?
Again. So rude..
You replied to me, wasting me time bud.
Oh I'll happily waste your time but it'll be on my terms.