A criminal is under no obligation to use force. To do their jobs, i.e. arrest suspects, police officers must use force. Rational people tolerate less violence from the former than from the latter.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
And when that person, the police officer uses too much force, they need to be taken to task and justice must be served based on said person's due process rights.
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Replying to @LouisAdimando
The process of arrest is necessarily violent and error prone. A police officer or anybody else enforcing law has to be given ample leeway to commit normal errors, and generally they are, and it's irrational to compare it to the same act by somebody who is not enforcing law.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @LouisAdimando
> has to be given ample leeway to commit normal errors I think you can agree killing a man with your body weight falls outside of this leeway.
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Replying to @biglinkstink @LouisAdimando
Using body weight is one of the most common uses of force when making a rest. This incident like many others was tragic, but it is not a national tragedy. The reaction to it is a national tragedy.
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Look at it systemically; there will be confrontations between blacks and police every single day (law *enforcement*); some of those will be violent; some of those will end up with the arrestee dead. The only way to avoid this is to declare black people above all law.
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Replying to @nubbedout @NickSzabo4 and
No, they're "asking" for free flatscreens and the thrill of wrecking things
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