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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by justwannasing on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:25AM (#9922868)
Now you're saying that is the norm. You're basing your statements on the internet scream, HN and Reddit and not reality. You're basing your statements on one-off happenings as it happens everywhere.

These are things no engineer would hear of but you see statements like yours on HN all the time.

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Re:Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in sho... by rosser on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:56PM (#9923721)
No, I'm not. We're specifically talking about the ~1000 people per year shot by police. You can't suddenly change the context of the discussion and tell me that my (apparently formerly) in-context comments are trying to paint some exaggerated, false picture of the entirety of citizen-police interactions. I'm very well aware that there are countless millions of citizen-police interactions every year that don't result in people getting shot. So? We weren't talking about them.

Let me put it this way: is it your position that in every single one of those thousand-odd cases, the person who was shot deserved it? If not, how many of them did?

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