hedge wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:08 am
"anyone with a rock, molotov cocktail, brick, gun, crowbar - needs a bullet"
Damn, that's harsh. How about any cop with their knee on a handcuffed suspect's neck? Does he need a bullet too?
sure, but it won't be me.
You want to shoot people who are tasked with keeping society civil and expect them to be mistake free, then go for it.
We'll be living in a mad max society after the civil war in a decade.
Its just completely unrealistic to expect policemen to go in day in/day out in a neighborhood where they are despised, where 20 - 30% of the people wish them harm, and probably 40-50% wouldn't help them if they were in trouble, and expect them to deal with people who break the law without bias and interact with a population based on a set of rules that are constantly in flux. They are unwanted, unappreciated, and people provoke and them film then 24/7 in the hopes of getting a response. Those neighborhoods want a George Floyd situation.
George Floyds death is a tragedy, but those police deal with 100 George Floyds every week, I can't breathe, you're breaking my arm, I have a heart condition, they hear every excuse, every reason the accused come up with and they are jaded, and every day they have to worry about making the one mistake that will result in them getting a bullet to the head and not coming home to their family.
You get pulled over by a cop, you think you have an excuse he hasn't heard 200 times before to justify why you were speeding? Yet we expect this cop to take everything we say at face value, to respect us as we try to create an excuse as to why we are the exception to breaking the law. Now put that cop in a neighborhood where 30% of the residents have a felony conviction.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.
