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Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ... by fzeroracer on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:07PM (#23620288)
Of course, it's only murder if someone ends up going to jail, no? Consider John Crawford, who was murdered by police, yet charges were not brought against them.

Now consider we have multiple data points of police committing murder and getting away with it. How can we argue that it's rare, given that we have several instances of police getting away with it and not being considered part of said recorded statistics?

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Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ... by creato on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:55PM (#23620854)
Exactly how many "multiple", and over how many years? The case you cited is 6 years old. If this is occurring at the rate being suggested by the comment I replied to, we should be able to find dozens of cases from this (partial) year alone. That's a lot of George Floyds to go unnoticed, in a media and cultural environment that is very interested in noticing them.
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