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This sounds like it was an assassination attempt. I'd move out of the country.

• jrs95 8y ago
  There’s no reason to use a large number of police to do that. Way too many people are involved and it’s too public.
  • milge 8y ago
    It's literally the perfect way to do this. The large number of people account for each other. And since police murders in the US are so common, people would glaze right over the headline. An assassination with no witnesses would stir up more questions.
    • IanDrake 8y ago
      Police murders are exceptionally rare in the US. Where are you getting your stats from? Also note, you used the word “murder” wrong. Perhaps you meant something else?
      • gambiting 8y ago
        What else would you call it? If someone calls a SWAT team to an address to scare someone, and the police enter and kill the person even if they are unarmed and innocent, what else it if not murder?
        • IanDrake 8y ago
          You're asking two different questions. First, when one human kills another human, it's either a legally justified killing or murder. The majority of policy killings are justified and not murder. So that's "what else" anyone who understand the law and the English language would call it...unless you're just trying to stir things up with rhetoric. In that case you'd just use whatever word generates the most outrage ignoring the fact that you've used the word wrong. As to your second question, I would call that murder. I would absolutely blame the person who called in the swatting, and depending on what happened I would blame the police. Every police shooting has different circumstances. You can't lump them into one bucket and pass judgement. There are very few instances of police murdering someone. I never claimed it doesn't happen, but "And since police murders in the US are so common" is just outright incorrect.
    • rainbowmverse 8y ago
      Police murdering Chelsea Manning would raise lots of suspicions considering her history. A lot of police are conservative, and a lot of conservatives are mad the last president commuted her sentence.
• sschueller 8y ago
  Interesting concept. Murder by cop. Get someone killed by sending the police to their place. Might actually be possible in the current way police deal with these kinds of situations...
  • viraptor 8y ago
    It's not a "concept" for many years now. And not "might be possible". It's known as swatting and people have been killed already: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting