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Whose definition of 'criminal' are we using? Is it "anyone who dares defy police?" Or "someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was mistaken by
by delinka 7y ago
Whose definition of 'criminal' are we using? Is it "anyone who dares defy police?" Or "someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was mistaken by the police as the person they were after?" Or maybe you prefer "anyone who is a target of police inquiry and lethal force because they're obviously guilty?"
Until the evidence is presented and decided upon, people are not criminals.
- rossenberg79 7y agoI think there’s a clear difference between “poor guy in the wrong place at the wrong time” and gang members dealing drugs and toting firearms.
- NullPrefix 7y agoThe Unarmed Combatants killed by a drone strike type of situation. If they're dead, they must be the enemy.
- brutally-honest 7y agoHow about "people openly flaunting assault weapons"? As someone who lived in Rio most of their life, I think that's a good line to draw. Opinions filled with "human rights" concerns from people far removed are probably ethically and morally correct, which is... cute. We're fighting an Urban War over here. This is a Concrete Jungle. This is a crazy post-apocalyptic situation to which most people in Rio grew accustomed to while most people outside Rio can barely picture. As a police officer once told my wife as she was leaving her house in Rocinha and stopped to be patted down and inquired why was she being selected: – Mam, do you know where you are? You are not in in Los Angeles. You are not in Paris. My moral qualms went out the window around the same time my grandmother was murdered by being thrown off a bridge in Aterro do Flamengo.