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A comment on A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests. Parent comment

Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:22AM (#23400079)
> They may have overreacted, but you wouldn’t attack a lion and then get pissed at it for turning you into mince.

No one is surprised that people get killed when they poke at a lion.

But the animal that reacted that way is still destroyed, because it is unsafe to exist in proximity to humans.

The lesson from your analogy may not be what you intended.

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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by read_if_gay_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:25AM (#23400502)
My point is just that the guy is also an idiot for doing what he did and that weakens the argument against the police and cutting those scenes out of the videos is disingenious.
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