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> The government already gave them carte blanche to shoot, maim and abduct citizens for exercising constitutional rights to assembly and speech. Don’t be hyper
by josteink 6y ago
> The government already gave them carte blanche to shoot, maim and abduct citizens for exercising constitutional rights to assembly and speech.
Don’t be hyperbolic.
They may have the ability to abuse their position as police officers to do all that, but the government and the law has certainly not given them permission.
Any officer caught breaking the law like this, does run the risk of himself getting arrested and losing his job (even though the risk may be smaller than we’d like it to be).
- mindslight 6y agoI don't see the need to bicker over formalisms. For example, Breonna Taylor's murderers have yet to be charged. It makes sense to say that the law has been corrupted to protect them. And it also makes sense to say that the existing laws are adequate and the prosecutor is corrupt. It does not make sense to argue over which one of these is more correct - addressing either area of corruption could yield progress.