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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I feel like both schteve and Oling have brought up good points. And Azure and OMG.
Not sure where I land on this one. Pretty wild video. My sense is if the cop after the first, more gentle ramming had stopped and not careened off aggressively with the person still on the hood in the distance, it would have been slightly more reasonable. That second burst is where the cop seems like he should be thrown in a jail cell. Running over people... obviously sub-optimal. But on the other hand, some of these protesters are being quite dooshy as well so my sympathy meter is kinda low.
Cops shouldn't drive over people. Yeah. I wonder if slowly creeping and then very slowly accelerating would have done the trick as maybe people get out of the way. But I also don't think I'd be climbing all over the hood of a cop car in that situation either. Sometimes you kinda get what you're asking for. Dunno.
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Both sides are absolutely in the wrong, IMO.
But in the end, police should not use potentially lethal force unless there is a danger to someone else's life, and the second half of that was certainly potentially lethal.