According to r/PoliceBrutality2020, shooting an armed and dangerous individual heading into a crowded area is an unjustified shooting. (+2.0k)
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np.reddit.comPosted Aug 22, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC
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Get those hate facts off my campus
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Dude carrying a weapon, briskly walking away from police, trying to go into a building with other people in it.... I can see why this happened.
I don't understand the outrage... If he were innocent maybe just stop and talk to the cops?
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The outrage is, all of these people are felons and don't like the consequences of their actions.
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The outrage is because the guy wasn't a direct a threat to anyone. People don't have more rights than others just because they have a badge and people don't lose their rights just because they're confronted by people with a badge. Having a weapon is not justification for getting shot. If you believe believe that rights are universal and not granted by governments then you cannot support police using violence in any situation that an ordinary citizen wouldn't be justified in using violence. This is clearly not a situation in which an ordinary citizen would be justified in using violence.
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They police aren’t “normal citizens” though. Your argument is flawed. Police have more rights than you and I as citizens do that pertain to their job. They have certain laws specifically made to protect them in order to be able to do their job. You really think police should be treated as regular citizens? That doesn’t make any sense
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This. Police by definition are the physical manifestation of the law. They're like the Eucharist, the body of Christ. Police are incapable of committing a crime because they are the law. If an officer tells you to stop and you don't they have a duty to kill you. That's their job.
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You cannot believe that cops have more rights than others unless you believe the government is the granter of rights. If you believe rights to be inherent and universal than you cannot remain morally consistent while simultaneously believing cops have more rights than others. To be clear, I believe that what the government says has no bearing on what your rights actually are.
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Why didn't he just stop and respond to them then?
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Nobody has a moral obligation to stop and respond to anybody regardless what the law says. Just because police are legally justified in using force when citizens don’t respond doesn’t mean they’re morally justified in doing so. My issue with police here isn’t that they are legally in the wrong but that they are morally in the wrong and that the current system allows for and even promotes immoral, aggressive actions by police.
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Or he could have stopped and responded. It looks sketchy as fuck otherwise. Don't be stupid, you don't have stupid stuff happen to you.
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I wonder how many people in that thread have ever been in a situation where they were threatened or violence was a possibility... I’d wager 0
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Police: "please cooperate"
Suspect: starts walking away
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Send in the social worker!