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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by stnikolauswagne on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:10AM (#49065704)
> However, there is zero legal duty for the police to protect someone who is currently under attack from a criminal.

That has to be incorrect, by the time someone is under actual attack from a criminal that criminal will have allready comitted crimes that the police can and have to punish for, i.e. Threat of Force with a Lethal weapon or sth like that.

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by kube-system on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:01AM (#49066007)
Legally, the police do not have to swoop in to stop someone who is actively murdering you. They can just wait until later and write a report after you’re dead.

1981 Warren v. District of Columbia

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