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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Then you have effectively created an impossible demand, and prescribed outrage as the response when that demand isn't met. Anyone who does that isn't asking to be taken seriously.
There will simply never be zero of these types of deaths, unless you abolish police forces altogether. Even if you took away all their guns, all their tasers, and said, "you must now police using only your hands", the number still would not be zero.
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The expectation that there will be zero is impossible.
The expectation that zero should be the only acceptable number is the bare minimum we should expect of the people we pay to protect us.
There will be outrage so long as anything more than zero is acceptable. The incidents will happen, no matter what, we agree. But so long as there are people and police forces and courts that believe they are acceptable, there will be people reminding them that they are not.
Excessive force causing injury or death should not require being spread on social media, protests, riots, etc for severe consequences to result. So long as it does, and so long as cops who needlessly shoot people or commonly use excessive force get a slap on the wrist or no punishment at all, then it is clearly not meeting the minimum standard we should expect of police.