Any-Growth8158 t1_j9v37zk wrote
Reply to comment by CheapMonkey34 in ELI5: Why do people get treated way worse for killing a police officer in say, a car crash than if they killed a random stranger? by Impressive_Pound1363
It should be noted that the reason this was likely asked is that an off duty officer was killed yesterday (I think) by a drunk driver. It made news because he tried to run away, but a witness chased him down and restrained him until the cops arrived. The witness didn't know that the guy who was killed was a police officer, and the drunk driver will not get an enhanced sentence because the killed officer was off-duty at the time.
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