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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Ok, first off, many of those shootings were justified and the officers cleared of wrong doing. Have there been murders? You're damn right there has and the best example I can think of is that POS who shot that guy running away from him then tried to plant a taser on his body. I don't think inflammatory rhetoric like "steady stream of murders of Americans by police" are helpful at all. All they do is sow more discontent and further polarize people.
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Uh, none of the officers in the recent shootings have been cleared yet.
Here's a small list of the questionable-to-blatantly-unnecessary uses of deadly force just in the past month:
July 13 - Donald Myers
July 6 - Philando Castile
July 5 - Anton Sterling
July 4 - Delrawn Small
June 25 - Dylan Noble
June 18 - Antwun Shumpert
Let's not act like this isn't currently happening at a pretty excessive rate. It's raising a lot of questions and breaking down a lot of trust civilians have in the US (especially those of a minority) of the police force. That's six people just in the past month that have been unarmed, subdued, or straight up running from police. Is there
possible justification for a few? Absolutely, but it isn't concrete, so it raises questions. And seeing that justification means you're resigning yourself to a world where the police and deadly force go hand-in-hand, and it doesn't have to be that way. There are plenty of countries where it ISN'T that way, and they deal with the same situation all the time.
What the police need is training regarding relying on their sidearm less, and non-lethal takedowns more.