(06-26-2020, 09:25 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-26-2020, 09:10 AM)Jamies_fried_chicken Wrote: So of course we cannot normalize this behavior, and yes the population size makes this an anomaly. 

With that said, can we give the FBI a pass to murder how ever many people were killed in Waco because of the overall population size and that those type of events are not common?

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Genuinely confused by this. I may have missed the sarcasm.

Referring to police as something other than civilians contributes to the over-militarization of law enforcement. You have Military and you have Civilians of which all police are the latter. Noting in the headline that the suspect in this case was a "civilian" is the wrong word because every one in that encounter was a civilian. What it should read is "citizen" because a citizen has the rights of citizenship that should afford him protection from the type of unnecessary assault he experienced. When cops view themselves as different from the people they police then we have problems with civil rights violations and one way to keep that in check is to rebuke the idea that they aren't also civilians, and therefore bound by the same laws as those they police, as well.

 Thank you for the clarification. 

Just so I understand you, the person who was unlawfully arrested was a “suspect” from your point of view? Is there a technicality in this instance where he was positively identified as a suspect then later proved innocent?

Also since you state law enforcement is not above civilians and should be considered themselves the same do they not have a level of authority within their job description that puts them above certain civil rights?

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