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Originally Posted by Zulu29
You’re right, there shouldn’t be but there will be. Police are human, they’re fallible (thanks Locke). No one has to like or agree with what happened but you have to accept that it will happen. Teachers will have inappropriate relations with students sometimes, doctors will malpractice, lawyers will get investigated for malfeasance, politicians will be corrupt etc etc etc. This things will never cease but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be outraged when it does happen.
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No we don’t,
The humans are fallible argument is only acceptable for decisions that are within the scope of practice that may have not been correct.
Cases like this where there is no discretion should never happen. That is a fundamental failure of the system. These aren’t accidents or bad decisions. They are gross incompetence.
The acceptable number is zero.
The numbers of babies dropped by doctors during delivery is a number that we need to accept will be greater than 0 because that is human error. The number of people getting there head smashed in by police is not.
This Case is fundamentally different Then many mis-use of force cASR’s where you can see a judgement was made by a fallible person. And in those kinds of cases it is reasonable to expect they will occur at a small rate.