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Originally Posted by Azure
So you are okay if they get out of the vehicle and start shooting, but you have a problem if they stay within the relative safety of their car, and force themselves forward.
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No, I'm simply not okay with indiscriminately driving into a crowd of teenaged peaceful protesters. Full stop. It's not a hard topic to wrap your brain around.
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Given that the protests have turned violent very quickly, and what those cops are seeing is a protest that is quickly heading south, you think they should get out and start shooting. Good Lord.  |
Perfect solution. Nothing to stop violence like killing and maiming all the protesters before they get a chance to riot. Big fan of Minority Report?
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Seriously, you have no frickin' idea what you're talking about. You just want to rag on the cops for stirring sh&t up, and you refuse to admit the impossible position they are in.
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Who do you think put themselves in that "impossible position". Don't inch up into a crowd of protesters to try and steer their direction and this doesn't happen at all. But keeping the police accountable for their actions is just so foreign of a concept to many of us that it's hard to imagine.
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There is no good response to that scenario. Seriously. If they get out of the car they are more at risk. Why should they put their lives on the line like that?
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When the best course of action is to do nothing, then do nothing. Let them escalated to the point you actually need to do something (in which case the other 50 cops behind them could have done something), but don't instantly go to driving through a crowd of peaceful protesters on a planned march is never the response. Never ever ever.
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Originally Posted by Azure
I just don't get you. It really seems like you just want to rag on what the cops do all the time. And you intentionally avoid answering, and when you do answer, your response is 'get out and shoot.'
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I want to rag on this cop, and any idiots who would defend him, for running over a bunch of peaceful teenage protesters.
I don't see what's hard to get from my point of view. If there is innocent people in front of you, do not drive into them. That's it. It's about as simple of a concept you'll find.