Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
by notassigned on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:11PM
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1. I am black.
2. There is no police brutality in my area, or crime for that matter.
3. I don't shrug and accept police brutality, those are your words.
4. I am not trying to spin a narrative, merely point out a narrative that is being spun by the media that directs attention away from actual solutions in favor of self-dealing sensationalism.
Cops are humans. It is illogical to assume that there will be no mistakes made.
Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
by wonderwonder on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:48PM
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There are very few areas on the United States with no crime...
"Cops are humans. It is illogical to assume that there will be no mistakes made." They are but when they make mistakes people die or are sent to jail for decades or are stripped of their property. To give people this much power and shrug and say its a mistake is not acceptable. Very often these same cops have many / dozens of complaints against them and they still continue to act with impunity because they know that they are not going to be punished. A mistake is a mistake, 10 / 15 mistakes in and it is a pattern, extrapolated out over tens of thousands of officers and it is a systematic problem.
"in reality, things like this almost never happen" I am willing to bet your life experience is very different than those of minorities.
" If the guy had pulled out a gun and shot the cops in the head, we wouldn't have heard a thing about it" Not sure what you base this on, I feel like to could be based on nothing but the narrative you are attempting spin. Is your argument that police should be more aggressive based on what could happen? Should police just gun everyone down because they may have a gun and pull it out and shoot them in the head?
In this country, police have godlike life or death power, every instance of police killings should be heavily scrutinized by neutral parties and stringent protocols put in place to prevent it with harsh criminal penalties for those that dont follow the rules. How you can just shrug and accept any cases of police brutality is beyond me.