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| Rayshard Brooks |
There is no
rational defense of this shooting. If someone is running away from you with a short-range weapon, it is literally impossible for them to pose an imminent
threat to you. Just allowing Brooks to run out of the range of the taser, as he
was already trying to do, would have nullified any potential threat to either
of the two officers on the scene, because it would have been literally
impossible for Brooks to tase them while continuing to run in the direction he
was running.
The indisputable and self-evident fact has not stopped people from bleating moronic
police apologia in my social media notifications since the shooting occurred.They claim Brooks could
have tased an officer and taken his gun (again, let Brooks take himself out of
taser range and there's exactly zero risks of this happening).
They claim they couldn't just let a "dangerous" criminal run around
with a police weapon (it's a taser; you can buy them at Walmart. What is he
going to do? Go on a mass tasing rampage?).
They claim the cop had to execute Brooks because he posed a "danger to
society" (it is not a cop's job to act as judge, jury, and executioner in
determining whether someone poses a general threat to society; that's what the
courts are for).
They claim if you punch a cop you
deserve whatever you get (believing, because they are authority-worshipping
bootlickers, that a cop being punched is worse than a civilian being killed by
gunfire).
They claim if you don't follow police instructions then of course you're at
risk of being killed (yes, police doing inexcusably brutal things is the problem that people are trying to address here).
Even leaving aside any debate about policing as it exists in America today,
there was absolutely no excuse for Rolfe's behavior. They had all of Brooks' information.
They had his car. They knew where he lives. They could have followed him in
their car and called for backup. They could have gone in with backup to arrest
him later.
The fact that cops are so
thoroughly inoculated against public demand that they change their behavior
makes a complete farce of the decoy police "reform" agenda that
establishment narrative managers have been actively trying to corral the
current protest movement into to kill their support for police abolishment.
Written By House of Public Discourse Member
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| Andrew Cacioppo |
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