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NY police are murdering people on video already. Will this change things?
by emehrkay 12y ago
NY police are murdering people on video already. Will this change things?
- krapp 12y agoIt should provide actual evidence, or evidence to the contrary, that the police in NY are murdering people on a regular basis as a matter of policy. All of the footage of police not murdering people is of value as well, after all.
- ceejayoz 12y agoYou moved the goalposts on someone else's assertion. No where was "on a regular basis" stated except by you. The recent chokehold death - a banned technique that resulted in a death - is a good example of what the parent was probably talking about.
- krapp 12y agoFair enough - I didn't mean to imply it on the part of the parent but on arguments about police brutality in general, particularly on the internet.
- seanflyon 12y ago"are murdering" implies that it continues to happen on an ongoing basis. "on a regular basis" is moving goalposts, but not moving them very far.
- emehrkay 12y ago"The ny police is murdering..." doesn't make much sense in English. And it has happened more than once. The other time I can think of is when they killed the guy in times square.
- seanflyon 12y agoThe difference between "murdered" and "is/are murdering" is that the "murdering" implies that either it is happening at this very moment (which is clearly not the case here) or it happens on an ongoing basis.
- dunmalg 12y agoThe question is not whether any one lapel cam video might result in action where various random cell phone cam videos have not, but rather, how many such videos in how short a time frame will result in action? If the evening news had a 20 minute montage every night of the days police abuses, people would be calling for Bratton's head on a pike.