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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by smileysteve on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:51PM (#23387240)
Police are trained to shoot for stopping power. A head shot on a target is a missed shot. There is no excuse for the number of rubber and pepper shots that have been above center mass.

They're either murderous or have "lucky" bad aim.

Exceptions apply for swat snipers in hostage situation

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by thephyber on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:55PM (#23387260)
> They're either murderous

Which is the whole point of the protests. If an officer is on a riot line and is murderous but the other officers on the line don't take them out (send them home or prosecute them), then the officers are just selectively enforcing the law (which I realize is a concept in US law enforcement) to the point of being corrupt.

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