have you ever been a police officer? i haven't, but ive been in enough situations where guns were pulled that i know when someone doesnt know what theyre talking about

Funny, I’m not a police officer either, and I’ve somehow managed to go my entire life without being in ANY situation where a gun was pulled. Maybe you should re-evaluate your personal risk level and reconsider choices you’ve made in your life instead of defending shitty authoritarian practices of a government that wouldn’t give a shit about you.

Hard agree.

I've lived and worked in a lot of very dangerous areas. I've lived in a building that had a meth lab. I've listened to more than one full blown shootout happen within three blocks of my house. I've had my apartment broken into three times, once while I was home. I've walked out of my house to run errands and had a police officer scream at me to go back inside and stay there. Etc.

But I've never personally been in a situation where a gun was pulled. If this is happening to you regularly, it's not just "bad neighborhood" issues. You either have extremely bad luck or need to reevaluate your life choices.

Anyways, to get back on topic: having an old woman stand in front of her house in underwear is completely unnecessary but totally unsurprising. Moves like this contribute to the ongoing breakdown in policing legitimacy, and we shouldn't settle for a world where we have to choose the least bad unaccountable organized gang.

Everyone dies, not everyone lives. Freedom isn't free.

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> have you ever been a police officer?

I like how you imply this would be disqualifying, only to follow it up with "i haven't".

If you amputate the wrong leg, I don't need to be a doctor to tell you "that's not great".