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lol, what? How many people are typically gunned down during these types of protests by the local police?

The sentiment probably does. But the guy brandishing a cell phone instead of the gun he brought in his confrontation with officers is likely not there to kill officers.

Because everything is a seesaw now. They use mandatory sentencing laws for things that I agree are unjust as well. I wish there’d be better restraint on these things.

Yes, but not in the same spirit?

And many on the other side, including the Trump Administration, are calling him a domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate as many ICE agents as possible. Maybe take them to task for their response to the same pixelated video?

When an officer kills a person, it is imperative that the government investigate that use of force. Even if they arrive at the conclusion that force was justified, it’s insane to simply dismiss the idea of investigating the officer’s actions.

Are you familiar with what the phrase “at worst” actually means? These are things we can see are possibilities on camera. I’m happy to wait for the investigation, but it’s not a controversial take to suggest the justification for use of lethal force here was questionable at best.

This seems like a bold way to engage with the libertarian faction you’re doing so very well with already.

We can just call anything terrorism these days.

At worst, they provoked an unnecessarily aggressive confrontation with someone who was merely addressing an injured bystander that culminated in them shooting him 10 times despite an officer having already retrieved his sole firearm. That’s a far cry from a mistake in judgment and it’s certainly...

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I think there’s certain cases where it is reasonable: say an undiagnosed and isolated schizophrenic person goes crazy and kills someone because the voices told them to. I don’t think that person deserves to simply rot in prison forever. I wouldn’t let them right back out on the street, but I...

This isn’t some plot by Dems to keep killers on the loose, and there are actual reasons to not want the government to simply imprison all the crazy people. I don’t support this particular verdict, but that’s not why the laws are on the books.

Bold choice of strategy to wait until he was being pepper sprayed and assaulted if he wanted to inflict maximum damage.

You’re just describing political action now. The people within those groups are people with their own agency and opinions. That doesn’t make it *not* a protest.

Indirection Act Now, indeed.

They shouldn’t have.

lol

The Venn Diagram of people politically motivated enough to protest in the streets and people politically motivated enough to help with political campaigns likely has a lot of overlap.

Yes, that’s generally how it works. He likely won’t repeat that mistake. Now let’s talk about if our government unjustifiably murdered him.