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re: 75 year old man pushed to the ground by police
Posted on 6/5/20 at 11:48 am to lsu2006
Posted on 6/5/20 at 11:48 am to lsu2006
calm down
i would expect in a time of peace, no riots going on, and a large group of cops not in riot gear to never ever react that way to someone approaching them on the street.
i can see a nuanced difference in this particular situation. they're either going to or coming from a potentially dangerous encounter. if you're assuming all the protesters are peaceful, that's laughable. you can't know who's good and who's bad when they're walking up to you.
my assertion is that it's about 80% the cop's fault, and 20% the old man's.
i would expect in a time of peace, no riots going on, and a large group of cops not in riot gear to never ever react that way to someone approaching them on the street.
i can see a nuanced difference in this particular situation. they're either going to or coming from a potentially dangerous encounter. if you're assuming all the protesters are peaceful, that's laughable. you can't know who's good and who's bad when they're walking up to you.
my assertion is that it's about 80% the cop's fault, and 20% the old man's.
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Posted on 6/5/20 at 11:55 am to Logician
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calm down
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they're either going to or coming from a potentially dangerous encounter. if you're assuming all the protesters are peaceful, that's laughable. you can't know who's good and who's bad when they're walking up to you.
Dude they're in full riot gear and a clearly old man is walking up to them with a helmet in one hand and a phone in the other. If they can't see that there is clearly no serious threat to their life and limb and can't just calmly deal with him, given their major advantages in numbers and means to use force, and their reaction is to just shove him out of the way (and leaving him there) they are fricking terrible at being cops.
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my assertion is that it's about 80% the cop's fault, and 20% the old man's.
Again, a laughably low standard you're hold these cops to. It's 100% on them.
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