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Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,773 posts)
2. This is horrifying. Again. Police Officers MUST be better trained. Any idiot can just
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:53 PM
Aug 2016

shoot at people. My god, they cannot be allowed to continue in their fatal ineptitude, aggression, racism--whatever is involved in any of these cases. It's all got to go. There is a way to do their jobs without constantly killing people!

I can here the RW now. "Well, if you don't want to get shot, don't steal a car!" As if death is an appropriate punishment for stealing a car, even if a fair trail had occurred before the lethal sentence! Which, of course, in these cases it hasn't. Judge, jury, and executioner all wrapped in in a blue uniform.

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