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"... Rio de Janeiro police killed 434 citizens." All of them were innocents? Why do some journalists insist to call criminals as victims, citizens, and etc?
by edpichler 7y ago
"... Rio de Janeiro police killed 434 citizens."
All of them were innocents? Why do some journalists insist to call criminals as victims, citizens, and etc?
- coldtea 7y agoBeing guilty of anything doesn't mean you get a death sentence by a cop. There are courts and procedures for that. When police just open fire, even when they're not in danger, or kill people by supervisor's suggestion, it's still murder.
- saalweachter 7y agoFor comparison, US police have killed 323 people so far in 2019[1], and the US is widely regarded as the shootiest, killiest first-world country. Illinois, which has twice the population of Rio and contains the notorious crime-ridden hellhole known as Chicago, has had 5 police shootings in 2019. Assuming a similar trend over the full course of a year (that number is for 3 months), that gives Rio a murder rate by the police of 27.5 per 100k; that is higher than the murder rate by criminals in Newark, NJ. In short, that is just an insane number of people being summarily executed on the street without charges or trial by the police. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police...
- iron0013 7y agoCriminals are citizens.