• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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      It’s America, everyone has a gun. It’s a constitutional right, not an excuse for cops to murder whomever they want to. They usually want to kill people of color and always want to kill poor people.

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        Carrying a gun while roaming the streets isn’t allowed everywhere, and neither is pointing them at people - especially police officers while they’re trying to detain you for stealing a car.

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          Is stealing a car punishable by a death sentence? Is possessing a firearm punishable by a death sentence? If either of those things were punishable by a death sentence, cops are not judge jury and executioner. There is a thing called due process. There is no proof the guy even had a gun. The cop SAID he had one, and cops are well known for carrying around throw away guns, to plant on people after they have killed them. The video doesn’t show a gun but miraculously one was found next to the guy afterward. It must have fallen from heaven.

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            Is stealing a car punishable by a death sentence?

            No, but pointing a loaded gun at a police officer while stealing a car is.

            Is possessing a firearm punishable by a death sentence?

            No, but pointing a loaded gun at a police officer while stealing a car is.

            cops are not judge jury and executioner

            They are in certain situations though, typically ones where suspected criminals - especially ones caught in the act - point guns at them. Every time they are there will be an investigation to determine if it was a lawful shooting, and if it isn’t they will face consequences (though very often those consequences will NOT be harsh enough, but that’s a different story).

            There is a thing called due process.

            There’s a thing called obeying the law too, and this kid didn’t follow that. “Due process”, the flavour of the month for the left, believe it or not DOES include police shooting suspects to death in certain circumstances.

            There is no proof the guy even had a gun.

            You haven’t seen it, though it reportedly exists. We’ll see when the final reports come out.

            The cop SAID he had one, and cops are well known for carrying around throw away guns, to plant on people after they have killed them.

            Ok so you’ve jumped straight to “it’s a conspiracy”. Good for you, but the rest of us like to wait for actual evidence and “due process” to play out. It is currently being investigated. If it is proven that he did have a gun, what will you say then?

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      Supposedly. Are you aware of the allegations of planting evidence thrown at many, many police officers in the good ol’ US of A? It is a known issue and I’ll take a criminals word before a police officers.

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        So you just assume that every single piece of evidence is planted?

        and I’ll take a criminals word before a police officers.

        Oh ok, so no one should take anything you say seriously.

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          Certainly, nor you. Police officers lie by rote all the time. They are untrustworthy “witnesses” because they are always protecting their own interests and not telling the facts of the case.

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              Many of them just smoked some pot, or were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Such vile scum deserves as much respect as Mr. Shoot first and ask questions later.

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                And many murdered people, committed break and enters, stole property, sold drugs, raped people, etc. Many did it with guns too. You trust those people as being good upstanding honest citizens?

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        It’s happened on camera many times with zero charges filed or consequences for the pigs planting their own truffles