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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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Yup but there are NO other countries that have 300 million firearms flaoting around their cities and in the hands of some with less than honorable intentions.
I will be the first to agree that there have been some heinous and aggregious
uses of force by cops in recent times (and forever really).
However there is no other place on earth where policing has the same level of danger than in the US.