06-14-2020, 06:42 PM
Blankity Blank wrote:
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The bodycam footage has been the most informative I’ve seen.
I didn’t see the part where they killed a man because of a DUI.
Oh wait, I guess I did.
DUI. Field test, failed breathalyzer, handcuffed and taken to jail. Alive.
DUI. Field test, failed breathalyzer; attempted to handcuff; unprovoked, violent resisting of arrest, seizes weapon from officer, flees, uses weapon against officer, victim of lethal force.
Trying to frame every instance as a tragedy of monumental injustice ultimately does the cause of justice no service.
You and I define cause of justice very differently. I’d put him in front of a judge. You’d put him in front of a gun. One of us would work to effect justice. The other would take an easy way out and not shed a tear.
It always makes me sad and despair just a little when I see an ally on the left veer into baseless hyperbole as smear, give in to the meritless ownership of the high ground. Easy things to do, human nature bring what it is, but I hold onto the hope that such things will remain, at least mostly, the stomping ground of the right.
No sense of history of position. No curiosity why a voice must often four square allied might, in this singular instance, see a different perspective from that which is reflexive.
I suppose to some now I’ve ‘shown my true colors’. There’s always humor to be found, even in disappoint. :biggrin:
More than one person here has mentioned more than once several practical alternatives to what the police did. Alternatives that stood an excellent chance at justice without killing someone. You've considered exactly none of them. The only disappointment here is that you mischaracterize these ideas as baseless hyperbole. You get bonus points for trying to tie my stance with, "Hey, you're just as bad as those other people we both don't like." C'mon dude, that's not even trying.
It always makes me sad and despair Your burden is surely immense. I'm still looking for the smear I've committed. What, let me scroll up. No, not there. You want this one instance to be considered, yet pretend this one instance could have only occurred how it did, which precludes all other ideas as being valid. Congrats ... that's easy.
We're taking a step back and applying broad concepts you're willfully ignoring here, which is probably gonna just produce more "unique incidents" that curiously produce the same results. That's a clue. You might choose to reconsider just how concerned you say you are about this. It's fair to say the system is not broken if that's how you feel, without couching it as some sort of one-off where you "might" feel differently next time. This fool ain't buyin' it.