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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d rather have legislation that holds police accountable for killing us.[/quote]

Agreed.  But as Trevor Noah just said - it’s symbolism, but that ain’t nothing.

IMO - Police personal accountability (ie: their pension funds not the taxpayers used to settle lawsuits - blue wall of silence will come down a whole lot quicker then).  National registry of police officers (including complaints/use of lethal force/firings and reassignments).   Higher pay (need to attract better candidates than some of the power-hungry mouth breathers they currently get).  Lots of work to do there, including dismantling the structures they think they are protecting - a new national holiday may help with that.[/quote]

They are allowed to kill in defense of themselves or another.  Just like we are.   If my husband is suffering a mental health crisis and is holding my daughter at knife point, at her neck, freaking out and screaming and threatening to kill her and himself and anyone who comes near him, I'm allowed to defend my daughter's life.  By seriously injuring or killing my husband if I have to.    It's a horrific situation and there is no easy answer.  And may require me to make a split-second decision, that may or may not have been the BEST choice, looking back.  But at the time, in a high stress situation, you do the best you can.  Police face this at a disproportionately higher rate than we do, because we call them to handle it.

Yes, there are times police act contrary to training.  And yes there are places where union contracts interfere with holding them accountable for that.  And we need to address that.  But we as a society have deemed killing someone, in defense of ourselves or another, as a justifiable killing.   Period. [/quote]

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