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In reply to the discussion: Tasered woman now brain dead [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)deserves what she got. My brother in law thinks the same. If someone is arrested they are guilty and can be treated like they have no rights. I will defend citizens rights. Arresting officers have no right to use whatever force they want.
Believing in regulations and the enforcement of regulations and laws applies the same to corporate crime as civil crime. But our society let's corporate crime off with slaps on the wrist, but if you are poor, bingo, you are a drug user and you get treated as if you have no rights. They kick in your door and shoot your dog and say "sorry wrong house". They kill mentally ill persons that dont obey their commands. One even shot a man that was handcuffed and laying prone on the ground. Near me they shot a mentally disturbed man because he refused to come down out of a tree. Another because the officer thought he was going for a gun even tho there were no guns in the house and the man was not dangerous. It's open season on poor people. And of course the wood carver in Seattle was blown away with a 9mm glock because he didnt obey the officer in the seconds given. These people might be poor, drug users or alcoholics, but they dont deserve to be murdered in cold blood.
I want the police to enforce the law, not met out punishment.
The right-wing will tell us that she was one of the dregs of society and her life means nothing. That the police can use whatever level of force they wish. I disagree.