“I went to hug him because he was upset, and next thing I know they just yelled ‘Jason!’ and they ‘pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,'” Odell said. “I about got shot. I felt the compressions of the bullets. It was horrible.”
“I went to hug him because he was upset, and next thing I know they just yelled ‘Jason!’ and they ‘pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,'” Odell said. “I about got shot. I felt the compressions of the bullets. It was horrible.”
and these justify being shot while hugging your aunt at a funeral?
no see obviously, if you do any crime it’s automatically valid to then extrajudicially murder you even if you’re just existing, lol. we at some point started living in judge dredd rules, i guess
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except they literally did do that, lol. i’m not sure why we’re trying to justify this here, exactly:
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I don’t care if he had an AK strapped to his back, this murder is unjustifiable.
We all have the context and still feel this was wrong. I assure you, it isn’t a kneejerk reaction.
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No, it would not be enough, and I don’t only say this because the police shouldn’t exist in the first place. What’s more important is that they have a right to a fair trial just like anyone else. If there are literally any options to stop him from doing harm without killing him, they first need to be taken. And given that he was in his sister’s arms (it’s unclear if it was his sister or aunt to my reading, given that “the deceased” now refers to two of them) and not, yknow, holding the funeral goers hostage, there were still options.
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The context of when and how he was shot are both incredibly important. Do you think it’s okay for police to shoot a non-violent, unarmed suspect?
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i just want to underscore this is a psychotic thing to believe about a person at a family funeral, and reflects much more on you than it does on anyone else in this conversation. to not belabor the point: i fully believe you think this is good, would think it’s good even if it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt this guy was unarmed (which absolutely appears to be the case, contrary to your opinion here), and that this is effectively concern trolling. if you actually just think it’s fine for police to extrajudicially murder criminals and people you don’t like, i think we’d all prefer you just say that instead of couching it in fake concerns like this.
neither “having a warrant for [his] arrest” nor “previously committing a crime” are a justification for shooting someone (especially not before they’ve actually been tried for the alleged crime they’re being arrested on) and i know for a fact you know that because committing a crime is not punished in any sane country by summary execution before trial. for someone throwing around the word “disingenuous”, you are very obviously ignoring the inconvenient circumstances of what you’re trying to defend in trying to run defense here for cops capitally punishing someone for no reason.
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i just want to point out: this is a really funny thing to say to someone who is literally an admin on the instance you’re on right now. i don’t mean to condescend here, genuinely, but maybe this instance is not for you if you find yourself doing this.
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okay guess you don’t want to answer the question lol
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Persons of a religious persuasion, particularly Christians, may be offended by your use of this word.
Are you accusing us here? Personally, I don’t believe this place is the right fit for you. Would you mind leaving Beehaw voluntarily?
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I’m not quite sure what the deal is there either.
Regardless, this place is clearly a poor fit for you and you should probably just leave.
You were the first instance.
Your justification is framed through the eyes of ‘I don’t know what happened’ and we need an ‘investigation’, the question I was asking was establishing a specific way in which a suspect was shot and asking for your opinion on it. I’m curious to your thoughts on this specific use case, because I’m curious under what circumstances you think it’s okay to shoot someone suspected of a crime.