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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:55AM (#23401044)
No it is not. The police are there to uphold the law, not dictate what people do.

If someone's protesting they are exercising their rights and the police has no right to intervene. If someone is looting however, sure, then they can step in - with appropriate force, which in most cases does not involve shooting them in the face.

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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 @04:01AM (#23401075)
Yes. Upholding the law necessarily involves telling people what to do. They cannot arbitrarily tell people what to do, but that’s not what I was arguing.
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