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[sundin13]

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.

Abuses within a system of governmental power are inherently and fundamentally distinct from inappropriate or violent actions taken by individuals or groups which lack such power. That doesn't mean that they should not both be condemned, but this disparity in treatment is entirely appropriate. People don't protest when an individual kills another individual because there is simply no point or goal within such a protest, unless you can point to some failing within a (typically) governmental structure.