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None of this screed justifies a group of men shooting dead (and continuing to shoot, even after death) a man who was not resisting in any way.

No-one doubts that police officers have a tough job. But that truth doesn't give the police the right to execute people, bomb houses and act as judge, jury and executioner. That scenario just makes the police the biggest, best funded gangs on the street.


Justify this:

"If she hadn’t been selling illegal items out of the home, no warrant would have been served," he said. "What you call extreme, we call safe."

She sold some beer and food illegally. The police through a bomb into her house. Real safe.


Pretty typical law enforcement logic for the United States. It's about like, to protect you from the supposed harm of smoking cannabis… We will anally search your wives on the side of the road, put you in prison with hardened criminals, and blow up your babies with grenades. Oh, whoops, it's almost the same topic. It's just more unusual to see this bizarrely inappropriate level of force applied to unlicensed kitchens.




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