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Here's a thought experiment for you: I want you to watch the video of the Daniel Shaver shooting in Arizona. Then I want you to consider the outcome of the ext

Here's a thought experiment for you: I want you to watch the video of the Daniel Shaver shooting in Arizona. Then I want you to consider the outcome of the extreme police violence cases vs the extreme cases of bystander escalation. The only thing that stops the police from getting away with violence is the fact that people are recording them. And even then, the police can execute an innocent and unarmed individual and get acquitted by court.

kepler1 4y ago
No one's talking about stopping people's right to record. And if standing 8 feet makes a difference then we've got other problems. I'm talking about reasonable restrictions to stop people from getting up in the police's face in everyday situations that dominate the daily work of policing, so that bystanders with less than honorable intentions don't provoke and escalate a situation. By whatever principle you're operating under, you would assert that police have no right to put up police tape and cordon off a crime scene either?