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I only see four confirmed cases and one fabrication. Is that really the entire confirmed scope of this? The way Reddit talks about it, it was thousands.

cwillu 3y ago
How many executions do you think is appropriate for a police service to perform?
TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Well I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit commenters didn’t have all the facts, but certainly four cases is horrific and far too many. This absolutely never should have happened, and one wonders, if we have four confirmed cases, were there additional unknown cases? And how else did the Saskatoon police treat indigenous people? Why did other police stand for such behavior? There’s plenty of questions to ask if you consider for a moment the implications of police murdering people at will. Edit: The “Censorship attempts” section of the Wikipedia page is informative as well, and shows that someone inside the police department attempted to delete mention of these events on a Wikipedia page about the police force. We might ask: do they have a habit of erasing information related to their crimes?
- jimbob45 3y ago
  I can’t base my world view around guesswork like this. Four confirmed cases is four confirmed cases and that’s that. It’s just like how people see ten murders by blacks on the news and assume all blacks are murderers. No, that’s just ten black murders and nothing more.
asah 3y ago
I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme. That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+salem+witch+trials https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+sale... versus the larger genocides and cleansings of the Nazis, Cultural Revolution, etc. If it were orders of magnitude higher, I suspect there'd be more direct evidence in the record, including names.
Zpalmtree 3y ago
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cwillu 3y ago

How many executions do you think is appropriate for a police service to perform?

TaylorAlexander 3y ago

Well I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit commenters didn’t have all the facts, but certainly four cases is horrific and far too many. This absolutely never should have happened, and one wonders, if we have four confirmed cases, were there additional unknown cases? And how else did the Saskatoon police treat indigenous people? Why did other police stand for such behavior? There’s plenty of questions to ask if you consider for a moment the implications of police murdering people at will. Edit: The “Censorship attempts” section of the Wikipedia page is informative as well, and shows that someone inside the police department attempted to delete mention of these events on a Wikipedia page about the police force. We might ask: do they have a habit of erasing information related to their crimes?

jimbob45 3y ago
I can’t base my world view around guesswork like this. Four confirmed cases is four confirmed cases and that’s that. It’s just like how people see ten murders by blacks on the news and assume all blacks are murderers. No, that’s just ten black murders and nothing more.

asah 3y ago

I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme. That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+salem+witch+trials https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+sale... versus the larger genocides and cleansings of the Nazis, Cultural Revolution, etc. If it were orders of magnitude higher, I suspect there'd be more direct evidence in the record, including names.

Zpalmtree 3y ago

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