(08-29-2020, 02:38 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(08-29-2020, 02:14 PM)JackCity Wrote: Buddy I don't watch any of your news and actively avoid the clearly partisan fox, CNN and numerous other entities people watch in here. And have mentioned that numerous times too so I'm not sure why you think it's new information. Maybe you don't frequent the politics section enough. 

How about for starters police shouldn't be shooting unarmed citizens simply for not complying to their rules. Secondly having actual consequences for poor police behavior by getting rid of qualified immunity and having actual removals handled much more sensitively and less tolerance of "bad cops" (which unions advocate for keeping in the force) would help regain some trust. Thirdly the entire manual on how to handle protests needs to be re-written. A fun fact is the rubber bullets they use were designed to be shot at the ground, except US police choose to fire them directly at protestors. Also tear gas being so prominent in protest dispersal only rules up the crowd. 

Also laughing at your comment about an Irish man showing you how to run your justice system. Look up the history of American policing and protest control and check the nationality of arguably the most prominent figure in it. 

Ps the potatoe jibes are so 1990s, about time you left that decade

How are the police supposed to know these people are unarmed??????????????? You have yet to explain this. If a criminal is fleeing and reaching into his pocket or wherever, how is a cop supposed to make a split second judgement and know that criminal isn't reaching for a gun? None of the arguments you make are valid unless you can tell me how a cop is supposed to know if a person is unarmed. Again, this isn't Ireland. The vast majority of our criminals are armed. 

It doesn't matter about the nationality of the prominent figures in the American justice system. They lived here and experienced what being a police officer is all about. You don't.

As for the potato comment, that was low hanging fruit. I'll change that to heads of cabbage.

Theres been two high profile killings in the last month where the subject was unarmed and executed by police. Ones where they knew they were unarmed so your thought process does not follow. Their job is not to kill anyone who may escape unarmed or go against arrest. 

I said it was funny you'd bring it up without knowing the history.

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