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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
https://twitter.com/user/status/1463585586845990915
Pretty speechless watching the treatment this guy got after he lynched another human being. She couldn't be any nicer. I guess I should be used to this stuff by now, but I'm still not. Now that those 3 scumbags are going to jail forever it's time to take out the rest of the trash that bumbled this murder at the beginning.
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If she is sincere, I don't have much of a problem with her assuming she would have acted this way had the guy been Black or Asian or whatever. That may or may not be true. We'll never know. But it's better that the police remain calm and respectful when there is no immediate harm. I don't see the point in trying to vilify her because some other officer treated other suspects improperly, rather we should condemn those who treat non-dangerous suspects poorly and strive for all suspects to receive this type of treatment.
On the other hand, this could also be very tactful. If she was a good cop, I mean both morally and trained, this friendly demeanor has him opening up to her. He's voluntarily providing information that can be used against him later. He believes the police are on his side, he's willing to go down and talk to investigators and make a statement without a lawyer present because he thinks they are on his side. He could have been falling into the standard trap of talking to the police. Simply don't.
The McMichaels, whether intentional by the police or not, provided them with a lot of damning evidence during these moments. Notably, the elder told police he yelled "Stop, I’ll blow your ####ing head off." He told the police he did not see Arbery steal anything, only that he had a gut instinct he did. And most importantly, during their recount of events to the police on scene and with investigators later, they never said they told Arbery that they were making a citizen arrest.
In an alternate world where we get some roided out ######bag cop on scene who immediately escalates the situation and arrests them violently, they get a lawyer, they shut the #### up, they discuss with the lawyer and then they tell the police "After watching him take something from the home, we told him he was under arrest and that's when he threatened to kill us and went after my son's gun." And now the case isn't so clear cut.