1/ One fundamental disconnect between left civil libertarians and right civil libertarians is that the L variety try to build rapport by giving the credentials: "he's black", "he's in a tux". The only thing I care about is "did the cop have a valid reason to attack?"https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/994582929975234560 …
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10/ To recap: victim is a white guy in a tux? don't care victim is a black guy in a tux? don't care victim is white guy in a wife-beater? don't care victim is black guy in a wife-beater? don't care All I care is if force is reasonable given suspected crime and resistance
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11/ I agree with the right to resist unreasonable arrest, but (a) you'll probably end up dead if you try it, (b) if you don't, you'll probably end up in jail (maybe for life), (c) every example I gave was of REASONABLE arrest (even if wrong).https://twitter.com/FreddyMagnus/status/994635085214203906 …
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Agreed and 95% of the time makes sense. I'm just thinking of edge case where A)person IS guilty of crime but cop doesn't know it yet or B) They reasonably believe they'll be yanked around even if they're innocent and so running from any police interaction seems logical.
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In which case I want to place strong burden on police to justify why they acted the way they did, and whether they ACTUALLY had sufficient basis to stop/chase the subject. COPS should be on the hook for the escalation if they lack grounds, even if force was 'proportional.'
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