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no_hypocrisy

(46,097 posts)
2. Couple of things:
Mon May 11, 2020, 09:55 PM
May 2020

1. Even if the deputy was on duty, no warrant. Big problem.

2. As the deputy was off duty, he was a civilian, making his actions that of a vigilante. And he brought "friends." Big problem. You can't have citizens taking the law into their own hands. This is kind of like the mindset of the NRA where the messaging is to arm yourselves as you can't trust the police to protect you.

3. Obviously there is a racist underpinning behind this action and the missing girl was an excuse. It seems as thought the true motivation was to terrorize African-Americans in the Jim Crow tradition.

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