Jimong5 posted:

I can’t help but think you get into another layer of hosed up because they way our lovely laws are there’s a chance that even if she did stab that girl to death it would have been fuckin legal. Unless a cop shows up then it becomes a death sentence. Like how can you defend a cop not only jumping to lethal force but against someone arguably applying self defense legally.

Jimong5 posted:

I can’t help but think you get into another layer of hosed up because they way our lovely laws are there’s a chance that even if she did stab that girl to death it would have been fuckin legal. Unless a cop shows up then it becomes a death sentence. Like how can you defend a cop not only jumping to lethal force but against someone arguably applying self defense legally.

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Since this seems to be a major point of contention here, I will say for the record that I believe that a cop shooting a private citizen to death is a worse outcome than one private citizen stabbing another private citizen, especially when the person being shot is a teenager. Both outcomes are terrible, but I would prefer one where an agent of the state isn't given the right to decide who lives and who dies in a split second timeframe based purely on instinct.

Feel free to continue arguing that a cop shooting a black teenager to death is preferable, it's definitely a great look.

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And feel free to stop posting like this in here. gently caress. User loses posting privileges for 6 hours.

Lib and let die posted:

smarxist posted:

lol this is exactly like the "legitimate rape" thing from awhile back

the cop murdered that teenaged girl because i don't believe she was an imminent life/death threat to the person she was brandishing a knife at, and even if she was going to take a stab, i would expect any peace officer tasked with protecting and serving to dive between them and possibly take a steak knife to the shoulder in the service of not killing ANY citizens. if you think him seeing a potential knife stab at someone justifies him to pull his gun and shoot-to-kill the teenaged girl you're arguing for the status quo, and you shouldn't be concerned with the "optics" of being against the status quo ever lmfao, the status quo of america is demonic misery

Yinlock posted:

unless you're defending the cop, in which case gently caress you

Yinlock posted:

unless you're defending the cop, in which case gently caress you

Yinlock posted:

this is now the only open thread about this specific cop murder, welcome d&d friends

unless you're defending the cop, in which case gently caress you

Yinlock posted:

this is now the only open thread about this specific cop murder, welcome d&d friends

unless you're defending the cop, in which case gently caress you

Fister Roboto posted:

cops may kill a lot of people, but they also sometimes save people, so who can say if they're bad or not

Bootleg Trunks posted:

Maybe by killing.... we can save lives

Yinlock posted:

unless you're defending the cop, in which case gently caress you

Gringostar posted:

jarofpiss posted:

if you're posting about how the cop should have judo thrown the child instead of shooting her you've missed the point that the tragedy is the failure of society every step of the way that led her to the place where she's swinging a knife at people. once you're in this situation there's no good answer to it. all police killings are murder because of the role they fulfill for capital in society. debating the lethality of knives is dumb as hell (they're lethal as gently caress) and probably not the base to be having the discussion about what to do about cops in america.

playing armchair tactician about how this was an "unjustified" shooting is missing the forest for the trees.

Gringostar posted: