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>I'd be interested in hearing both sides of the story with supporting evidence. The thing is this story is not at all surprising or unusual for the US. This ki
by SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
>I'd be interested in hearing both sides of the story with supporting evidence.
The thing is this story is not at all surprising or unusual for the US. This kind of stuff is constantly happening on an almost weekly basis and after all the evidence is collected the result is "Yes this all did happen and no we are not going to do anything about it"
- nojvek 6y agoThis not happens frequently but innocent people also are either permanently injured/traumatized/dead. US law enforcement has very little oversight on their use of force.
- ashtonkem 6y agoNo oversight. Police departments are not required to report how many citizens they kill nationally, and they’re shielded from legal liability in virtually every case. Even when charges are brought, judges parse the law to an insane degree, to the point where sending attack dogs against a surrendering suspect in the woods is illegal, but not if they’re in a “grassy ditch”. I’m not being hyperbolic, that’s an actual case where cops got off because there was no clear and specific precedent that what they were doing was wrong. And since they got off, they didn’t make new precedent to stop it in the future. Of course.
- cardamomo 6y agoAlong those lines, I recommended listening to a recent Radiolab episode that dissects US police departments' lack of legal responsibility to ensure people's safety. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-special-duty https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...