• bookmeat@fedinsfw.app
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      2 months ago

      Uh, nope. Not however they see fit. We’re all human and we all deserve kindness and compassion.

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          If the cops yell “hey you stop” at a cyclist who rolls a stop sign in the middle of a bunch of hostile car-centric infrastructure and the cyclist keeps riding, the correct response is for the cops to go fuck themselves.

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      2 months ago

      However they see fit? Like, sexual assault? Shooting wildly into a crowded area? Taking a bribe to forget the whole thing? Grabbing an innocent bystander as a hostage? Nuclear weapons? Hunting down your kin and erasing all traces of your bloodline?

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      It’s absolutely not though. Most places have clear rules on how cops can pursue, grounded in concern for public safety. And even if they don’t there are standards for what level of force is reasonable for a given suspected crime. In this case it wasn’t even a suspected crime, it was a suspected civil violation.