• Auth@lemmy.world
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    Normally I’m here on the side of the police but in this case there is just no way. You dont get to shoot a suspect just because they’re in their car about to drive away. You need other things at play like they’re armed and an immediate threat to people before it makes sense to try and shoot someone. I dont believe for a second they were in any danger of being run over.

    This country is so culturally cooked, populism has rotted the american mind beyond repair.

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    8 hours ago

    The usa government determined that the murdered 1 year old was hitler reborn. His death was justified apparently to the judge.

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    How many diapers did that baby steal? Insurance companies say each year of human life is worth about 50,000 USD, so, cynically channeling Jonathan Swift, shooting this baby that could have lived to 60 would only be “justified” if the little one were hauling away 3,000,000 USD worth of diapers. That’s about 500 metric tons of diapers.

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      Objectively how can anyone say it’s justified to shoot a baby? What the fuck are we doing?

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        They aimed for the mother and hit the baby by accident. The mother was accused of stealing diapers.

        Like, this whole thing is fucked up. Nonviolent offenses do not warrant the use of lethal force.

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        Especially when his mother’s only crime was being poor and desperate? The real criminals here are wearing suits, not stealing diapers for their sons.

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    23 hours ago

    Just imagine what we would be justified in doing if this is justified in the leadership class’s heads.

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    This was in response to shoplifting!? SHOPLIFTING!?

    I guess that was on me for assuming the context would make this better and not 100 times worse.

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      No this was the response because she was black and shoplifting. It was 100% a race thing.

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      But, didn’t you read? The officers said that the car may have went in their general direction.

      Stolen diapers for the one year old that the police slaughtered is justified to kill a black person.

      God I fucking hate this world.

      FFVII Revelation is coming. I’m stealing the black fucking materia and calling meteor myself

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    Why do they even send cops to a shoplifting scene? Let the store deal with it. They have cameras, security guards, insurance.

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      That’s what I don’t get. Everything in the fucking store is insured! A $20 pack of diapers is insured! The store will get that back, take it up as a loss.

      Sure you don’t want to encourage theft, but shit happens. Oops someone accidentally walked out with one item. Sure send someone out to inform the customer, maybe they legit missed it. If you can’t locate the customer or they already started to drive away, welp put that under accidental loss. It’s not that different from someone accidentally dropping a jar of pickles off the shelf. The store isn’t going to call the cops because of an accidental jar drop.

      But we all know it wasn’t the accidental shoplifting, it’s because she was black. That’s the ONLY reason why the cops were called. Because of the color of her skin. And then the trigger happy racist as fuck cop saw that and shot first and never asked questions. It’s past time there were serious fucking consequences for these fucking piece of shit pigs (cops).

      I’d fucking boycott that fucking store and the owner. Force corporate to act over this shit.