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mohammedibnakar t1_j8fa7fy wrote

Reply to comment by Yousoggyyojimbo in Police in Shreveport accused of fatally shooting unarmed Black man who was running away by WE-NEED-MORE-CATS

> Cops straight up should never be allowed to shoot somebody for fleeing without extreme cause to believe that someone else is going to be hurt or killed as a result.

They aren't allowed to. Tennessee v Garner settled the matter already. It's illegal, period. Our institutions are simply abdicating their authority and refusing to uphold the law and hold these people accountable.

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Most_Ruin_3005 t1_j8i8c87 wrote

Then it is the duty of the people to yield that abdicated authority. The police don't get to be vigilantes, exacting death sentences on whomever they choose -- if they want to act like outlaws, then we must treat them as outlaws and turn to policing and protecting ourselves from them.

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amibeingadick420 t1_j8icb51 wrote

Our courts have shown that they will do whatever legal gymnastics they need to in order to protect their armed enforcers.

In order for them to be held accountable, it will take armed citizens conducting citizens’ arrests of cops, and escalating force if they resist or “act aggressively.” Dirty cops, and all of the other dirty cops that protect them as accomplices, will have to be tried and sentenced by “citizen courts.”

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