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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I'm not saying this to be facetious in the least, but don't you think what happened in Caledonia and your examples are on different levels?
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Of course they are on different levels, but the point is that enforcement of the law isn't quite as cut and dried as some posters are suggesting. "They are cops so they should be arresting those people" is far too simplistic and it just doesn't work that way. A person who breaks the law isn't automatically arrested, fined, clubbed, shot, whatever.
You mention "dangerous precedent" in another post. I think the "dangerous precedent" had already been set and it didn't work then and people ended up dead. This one ended up with a handshake. Which way is better?