(06-26-2020, 09:10 AM)Jamies_fried_chicken Wrote:

(06-26-2020, 08:54 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Completely agree the police were in the wrong, but, gotta say it again... 350 million people, man.

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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(06-26-2020, 08:57 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Police are civilians too. It's time to reclaim the language.

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.

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