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Has this happened with the converse as well? Police assault a residence, resident defends themselves, police escalate and "win", and the police are charged and
by mindslight 3y ago
Has this happened with the converse as well? Police assault a residence, resident defends themselves, police escalate and "win", and the police are charged and convicted of second degree murder? A right to self defense implies that both outcomes should happen.
Do these verdicts also happen for the least sympathetic cases, like an actual criminal defending themselves against an unknowable no-knock "warrant" ? Because if you're the basic upstanding sympathetic right-looking type, it's actually most places you will not be charged for defending yourself in your home against non-police.
And has this all happened regularly enough to form a predictable pattern such that the police have actually curtailed such attacks? Affecting repeated interactions such that one doesn't need to continually dwell on the basic dynamic is the hallmark of an intact right.
Because I haven't heard of any states that are shining examples of police accountability, especially states that people tend to market as promoting the right to self defense. But I'd love to be wrong!