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Old 08-18-2014, 09:51 PM   #7
Jim in CT
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The boy being shot and his involvement in a robbery are two different events, he may not be as pure as the new fallen snow, but the shooting officer probably didn't know about the first incident.

What should scare everyone liberals and conservatives alike is that a police agency can deploy a militarized force to keep the people down. In my eyes that is far more dangerous in every aspect.
"The boy being shot and his involvement in a robbery are two different event"

True, but the robbery establishes a pattern of thuggish violence that neither you nor I would ever display. Meaning he's way more likely, compared to an average kid taken off the street, to be capable of the violent kind of behavior that would justify getting shot in his empty noggin.

"What should scare everyone liberals and conservatives alike is that a police agency can deploy a militarized force to keep the people down. "

I'll tell you what. If by "the people", you mean a feral mob destroying everything they can get their hands on? You want the cops to face that mob in their underwear with empty hands? If that mob is advancing towards my home, towards my kids, or towards my place of business, then the better equipped the cops are, the more likely they are to keep the rioters at bay. I sleep like a baby knowing they have that stuff, in the event that the mob, not the police, make it necessary. Let's not forget what precipitated the police gearing up like the 82nd Airborne, and it wasn't jaywalkers.

You say the military equipment in the hands of the cops is "far more dangerous"? Well, we know this kid roughed up a store owner. We know this mob has been looting and burning. What have the cops done with their military gear, exactly?

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