yes. i'm also not carrying a gun, bulletproof vest, handcuffs, nor am i legally supported in doing whatever i want so long as i say it was justified

the moment we let cops break laws with impunity, it only became natural every other civilian would want in

you're not on the left if you're arguing this way man. what he did is clearly assault, there's no reason to give a free shoeshine with your tongue for a people who not only tackle innocent people daily, but shoot, tase, and beat them. the courts will fuck this guy enough, and we'll be paying the cop's disability suit, he doesn't need reddit """""leftist""""" virtue signaling.

frontrunner for supreme court position massacres PEACE OFFICER in front of cheering crowd

taser shouldn't be '100% justified', given that 80% of the deaths it inflicts are on nonviolent offenders. it should be a weapon of last resort, after physical restraint is ruled out due to danger (which isn't being bad at tackling, it's the perp holding a knife)

as vile as your position in the matter is, i do agree: don't encourage behavior you're not willing to support. cheer for him but also help him get home safe. otherwise don't encourage him to only further fuck himself over legally. who knows if there was a case before; there sure as fuck is now.

is there any evidence that the DA won't file charges against a seemingly-uninstigated assault on a police officer? like, a single case wherein the cops got hit during a legal arrest and charges weren't filed? this should be really easy for you to find, since it must happen so often for you to be so sure.

nypd is facing no reduction in their funding, powers, or political support. you can drop the victim mask

City Journal is a conservative ideological think-tank. Not exactly offering good evidence for your case here. All 7 of those are completely rational and fair. It's necessary to give the defense some defense (lol), since the system is already materially and structurally in favor of prosecution; the point is to reach a place of balance and equality, not to preserve the status quo and call it fair.

Glad to have your input, as someone working in the field. I'll offer some other relevant input, as someone who's been fucked over by the laws amended therein.

As a college student arrested for a protest charge, I didn't hear a thing for months. I finally show up for my first hearing, and my charges are elevated from misdemeanor to felony. No evidence presented, judge accepts. Now wait a few more months. I'm now at another university hours away. I start having to take monthly trips to go to hearing after hearing. Discovery went on for nearly 1.5 years, meaning I kept having to show up, sick or in health, impacted by school or not, etc, and make my dates. Trial pushed back the entire time, until it's finally time for it, and they drop all charges during pre-trial.

I'm sure having limited time for discovery limits prosecutors. I also know that prosecutors have something near a 10-1 material advantages over public defenders (there's a logic to this: PD defend only poor, prosecutors go after public and privately represented clients; this doesn't eliminate the impact on poor clients with even more overworked and under-resourced representation), not to mention structural advantages and inherently (& ideologically) better relations with police and judges. Sometimes a disadvantage on one side, as important and often benevolent that side may be, serves to right the balance-- so that innocent people don't have their lives ruined by endless court dates and unequal quality of representation.

Yes but the people you're responding to ARE looking for squares, no matter if the missing or responsible shape is a triangle.

That's the obvious nature of what is being done here-- trying to fix the perceptual gap here that's in no small bit responsible for crime statistics being skewed so heavily toward squares--, and why they're so mad. They don't want to believe there's anything to it other than squares commit the most crimes, and they refuse to address any reasons there might be for it. They just want to see a square match the description and get what's coming to them. No more thought to make things human, just shapes and statistics.