Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time.
by Pxtl on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:55PM
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I'm Canadian. And I'm not saying it's normal for cops to shoot people. I'm saying that I'm working on the assumption that it has happened at least once at some point in the (googles) 69 years of the modern country's history.
It will take more than one ambiguously-qualified offhand sentence in an article to convince me of otherwise.
Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time.
by scarletham on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:59PM
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Police in Iceland are unarmed. [1]
Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time.
by markolschesky on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:04PM
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Wow. If you ever want to read something that's a major downer in the afternoon.
Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time.
by buster on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:16PM
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Just found the same article.. It really is a HUGE difference, wow. In 2012 there have been hundreds of killings in the US and below 10 (in a whole year) in either Canada or the UK or Germany. Now, i'm quite convinced that it's entirely possible noone was ever shot in Iceland (by police) until now.
Seriously, I've encountered these kind of denialist reactions all over the place, and it so pisses me off.
It's not normal for cops to shoot at people in any civilized country ("not normal" as in "national news if it happens"), and for a country the size and nature of Iceland it's perfectly plausible (not to mention simply true) that this is the first time someone was killed by the police.
The ultra-violent American way of policing is the aberration here, not Iceland.