re: Challenge your thinking for a minute

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I have a friend who was an MP. She told me she denied people their rights constantly to do her job, and not just military personnel.

She was part of a joint drug task force the in the DC area that went after civilians too. Multiple times she told me about unlawful actions she committed because the only thing that matter was "the safety of the officers".

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Your friend either was a terrible MP or lied to you. I'm going to go with the latter based on the fact that the military can NOT be used as a police force inside the continental US , with TWO exceptions. 1) The Coast Guard, 2 national guard units when they are under STATE control, not federal.

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That's bull shite. The safety of the people matter far more than the officer. That's what you signed up for, especially military police.

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Incorrect. ALL lives are valuable , and actually in a situation where there is a danger to a multitude of people, the guy with the gun's life is MORE important than any one civilian's, because he has the gun that could prevent MULTIPLE deaths.

But that isn't the situation we are talking about here. Even if argue that as a cop I should be willing to take a bullet to protect you, that does not mean that a cop should have to get shot in order to avoid having to shoot a suspect.

Only an idiotic liberal would argue that.

Just based on shootings alone, the statistics are overwhelming, around 95% of officer on civilian shootings are cleared right away.. out of the 5% which which result in criminal charges being brought, upwards of 80% of those are ruled as justified.

There is no epidemic of unjustified police shootings.