It really should be legal to fire upon police actively engaging in torture/attempted murder.
That's a pipe dream. The first few people to try saving some innocent victim of police brutality will be dragged through the mud in the media and the whole ordeal would likely result in more legal protections for police and less rights for ~~police~~ the rest of us.
I didn't say it would happen. Just that's what it should be. These fucking pigs are out of control.
Well they'd be summarily executed by other officers, at the scene.
Their name might get dragged through the mud afterwards, but they'd already be dead, for certain.
If I was sitting in a jury, I'd certainly consider it valid
It would almost certainly not reach a jury.
Wouldn't even reach the hospital.
Selfless acts of courage often come at a very high price. The phrase "sticking your neck out" has certain implications.
There are people who fired on police breaking into their home and won on sale defense.
How many of those people were not white?
Even Breonna Taylor's boyfriend got acquitted after doing so. It does happen. Though I agree with you that it's likely a death sentence to defend yourself from police, no matter how justified.
Isn't that like the reason you have such lax ~~fun~~ gun laws over there?
Damn autocorrect
Lol...
Sucks that "firing" is what we're trying to get, when it should be "life changing legal consequences".
They aren't talking about firing them from a job.
Oh shit! Reading comprehension is my passion.
Yeah, that's much more based.
“I don’t really want to look at my body any more,” he said, noting it was too painful to see photos from the hospital. “Every time I see myself, I have flashbacks. And every time I see cops, I think, is he after me? And I know in my head it’s not true, but it just comes up.” He said he questions whether he could’ve done something differently. “I have to keep telling myself … I didn’t deserve this.”
He added: “I just want the Department of Justice to take care of them and fix what they say they’re going to fix … I’m not trying to get attention, I just want my story to be heard because I hurt.”
Oof.
Man I feel for this guy. This is straight up PTSD. This kind of treatment should be considered criminal regardless of what he’d done.
Kenyon has not been charged with a crime and a police spokesperson confirmed he was not the suspect that officers were seeking as part of a theft investigation.
Hadn't done anything.
He insulted the thugs with badges by existing while being a person of color.
Reminder that this is the Phoenix police. The same folks that assaulted and arrested an innocent deaf black man who has cerebral palsy because he didn't immediately respond when they yelled at him to stop.
Oh my god, those pictures. That poor man.
I hope he gets millions from his lawsuit and those cops spend years in prison (the first might actually happen, and I can at least hope for the second).
Those picture are ghastly. Even his "healed" pictures show how much damage they did to him.
Man, our country is fucked.
3rd degree burns are serious business. It means the skin is completely destroyed and won't heal, and potential deep tissue damage all the way to the bone. Treatment typically requires skin grafts taken from other parts of the body.
Rare "fuck the police" and "fuck climate change" intersection.
only one of these problems can be easily and quickly solved by a shotgun slug to the face, though.
This article was written just a few days prior to warn people in Phoenix about how hot the pavement is.
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So close. Use ! Instead of /c/.
Thanks. I tried to look up how to format it but failed. Will fix now.
No worries. It's very unintuitive lol.
Yeah I tried an @ and then some markdown and then just went hrrumphsend. Who'd have thought it's a bang?
Anyway now I know.
I'm going to pop into Boost's community and suggest they hardcode it in the edit-post modal or something for us lazy people. 🤣
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