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Originally Posted by 81MC
And someone here actually said they would prefer that cop getting killed when attacked, 1000 times over, to the assailant being killed.
Jesus Christ.
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Yeah... no.
First, that was Cecil. Second, I was the one who said he should be punched in the face for it (which in retrospect was a bit overboard; what I really meant was that if I was someone whose brother or sister or spouse was a cop and he said that in my presence I'd probably have decked him) so you know I was about as opposed to that post as anyone. And even
I don't think this is a fair characterization of what he said. He said he'd rather see 1000 cops dead than one person killed
through the use of unnecessary force. Cecil can correct me if I'm wrong but I doubt anyone, including him, would say that it was unnecessary to shoot the guy in that video.
If the officers in that video made a mistake, it was not shooting him sooner when he was getting back up after the initial shot and allowing him to make contact with the officer whose perspective we're seeing the event from, giving him potential access to that officer's firearm.