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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the apologists for the police are missing the point entirely. If we can't trust the police -- if we don't look to the police to protect us -- we are doomed. When a family calls the police because their mentally ill son is suicidal, and the police arrive only to shoot the mentally ill son as well as the innocent neighbor, a mother, then we're better off with no police at all.

The police themselves should say loud and clear that it's wrong for the police to kill unless it's a last resort. But they don't. They say things like "you don't know what it's like" and "you weren't there" (yes we were. we've seen the videos. We were there.) They are condoning this wave of police violence. Shameful and cowardly of them. They should all stand in solidarity, with the voice of Nakia Jones.[/quote]

The above is a farce.  Newsflash for Millennials:  Watching a video is NOT the same as "being there".  I'd wager my last dollar that you've never put your life on the line in the service of others, so don't pretend that you've been there.  You haven't and for you to claim otherwise is both inane and insulting.

Moreover, the first part of your claim is equally ludicrous.  The police absolutely do say (and establish as a matter of both policy and law) that it's wrong to kill except as a last resort.  What serious people know is that in the heat of the moment, it's very difficult to know when the last resort is necessary.  This is not a simple issue, except for simple folk.
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