Windy wrote:"we shouldn't take the law into our own hands, let the police handle it"
"wtf the police shot an innocent man fuck the police"
I'm a bit confused by the statement. Are you saying we should police ourselves? Shit, isn't that what we're already doing but we've designated people as police? We'll just end up back there or fall into chaos.
Police don't always shoot the innocent. There's
no guarantee the police would've used deadly force against the person driving this guy's truck. But pappy sure did come out aiming to kill. And his training told him to use the truest of tactics, firing a warning shot. Because that's always going to get a potential thief to resist their urge to flee. Works in the movies right?
The police imo overall as a group suck at their job but they're still the only group of people that are paid to respond to criminal activity. It's the fault of our leaders that there's no repercussions for bad police officers. I steal from my job and nobody will hire me. Anywhere. I'd be a thief that isn't trustworthy. They commit any crime they want, and have to get another police job 10 miles away.
Or back in the same department they were fired from. That's not their fault and I can't blame them for taking advantage of that. Gots to get paid.
Blame unions. They fuck everything up. We've moved past the industrial revolution. But that's another topic. Because another place where blame lays is, as I've said before, on the officers who stand by idly and watch pieces of shit act like animals towards the population.
Why can we not expect police to do their jobs in a manner that doesn't result in the deaths of innocents? Should they be immune to criticism and vitriol? Is it really that contradictory to say "you have massive improvements to make because you fucking suck at not murdering innocents but we have nobody else to rely on if our car gets stolen"?
“This is going to become a bad meme,” Todd observed.