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Machiavellian on 29 July 2020
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EnricoPallazzo said:
sundin13 said:

I agree that some of the assertions regarding when and how an officer should use a firearm are fairly ridiculous.

I also feel as if your implication that individuals here are arguing that dead cops are good is offensive and inflammatory.

While we should not take firearms off the table for officers, we should seriously consider both the threshold for force that officers are currently using and how they get into the situation where they feel they must use force. In both instances, it is not uncommon for deadly force to be utilized in an inappropriate manner, either through that instantaneous decision or through inappropriate actions or escalation by the police prior to that moment.

Although it seems most people here dislike the police and gave much but much more attention to the excesses some of them unfortunately committed during the riots instead of the absurds the "peaceful protesters" were committing, my comment was not guided towards any individual here but for the overall feeling I have that nobody cares when a cop dies. There are exception though as there is a case now in UK where we can see at least right wing media going against the gypsies that killed a cop, but in a few countries like my home country for example, mostly nobody cares.

I believe your outlook is that people dislike the police more than anything else.  Its not that there are cops that do excesses as you call it, its that the system allows cops to do excessive and abusive things with their power and allow them to continue on the job.  Its the fact that other cops protect those cops when they do those excessive things which undermines the trust of the community.  You have this misunderstanding that just because there are a few bad apples people dislike the police.  Instead the system allows those few bad apples to continue to be bad apples until they are caught doing wrong on video evidence and they still walk free as a bird to go to another city and do it all over again.  When a Cop dies, usually that person gets hit with the full extent of the law while if a cops kills a citizen most times the worst they get is paid suspension or fired.  That doesn't mean that same cop cannot just go to the next city and get hired on and continue.