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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If there is any reasonable way a police officer can avoid taking a life, that is the correct course of action.
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Yes, I will agree. I would say anyone who disagrees with that is incredibly stupid.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
There seem to be many flagrant abuses of power by local police services across the United States.
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There is, I've mentioned a couple of the individuals who didn't
deserve their fates due to the actions of certain police officers. And to be clear, in no way or shape do I believe that the man with the screwdriver deserved to die. My argument falls on self-defense of the police. They had every right to live, a screwdriver is a deadly weapon to any man or woman who wants it to be. I believe they had right to protect themselves from such a fate, and as such were justified in using deadly force to prevent potential harm and potentially their own deaths.
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If nothing else, the training these organisations receive is showing to be grossly inadequate for what they have to deal with, and a lack of oversight compounds the problem.
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I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but it's hard to judge any type of training when we don't know the specifics of theirs and without an alternative.
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I don't know what it will take for Americans to start viewing black people as human beings, but that's your ultimate solution to this mess.
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With respect to the screwdriver incident, I don't see why we should consider this a racial issue. They were called to the house, they went.
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I'm all over the map here - I apologise. It's an emotional topic.
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That's fair.