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Did people expect them to incriminate themselves?
by encryptluks2 4y ago
Did people expect them to incriminate themselves?
- kube-system 4y agoincriminate? What laws did the police break?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoIn the court of law? Maybe none. In the court of public opinion? Maybe quite a bit.
- encryptluks2 4y agoI can think of a few crimes that they could be charged with, but without evidence it certainly makes it harder.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoWithout legal requirement to protect anyone, probably no actual liability, besides being accused of wrong job syndrome or cowardice
- encryptluks2 4y agoIf you block an ambulance and someone dies that can be considered manslaughter. Likewise, if a cop prevents people from trying to save others which they obviously aren't going to do, then that would be very similar.
- kube-system 4y agoLike what?
- encryptluks2 4y agoLike a lesser degree of manslaughter. If they prevented people from entering that could have saved lives.
- kube-system 4y agoEven for negligent manslaughter, that would require a "specific duty" to act, which police officers do not have towards individuals unless there is a special prior arrangement in place.
- encryptluks2 4y agoNot if they prevented parents or someone else from entering who could have saved lives. It would be hard for them to argue they don't have a specific duty but can prevent other people from fulfilling that duty.
- kube-system 4y agoThere isn’t much of an argument to be made about that at all. “Specific duty” has an established legal meaning here. It means that the police have already established some agreement to protect an individual beyond what they normally do for the general public. That’s clearly not applicable to this situation.
- anm89 4y agoFair point but no, I expect the legal system to incriminate them. My issue isn't that the cops are acting in self interest, it's that they are systematically enabled to get away with it. Or more like just create transparency in this case, I don't know if they did anything criminal or not.