This is an absurdly bad-faith readinghttps://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1384976520045907968 …
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And so people have jumped in and filled in all the blanks for this brief snippet of video over things you don't know There's a lot of reports saying the girl who got shot *called the cops* because she was being physically threatened
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And she armed herself with a kitchen knife because she felt unsafe I don't know if that's true, sure -- neither do you None of you know, you just have a video of a cop rolling up on a pretty nasty fight already in progress
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If you're that confident that this is a "good shoot" then it remains a good shoot if this is a crazy aggressive attacker lashing out at a friend for no reason, or if this is someone who was terrified in pain after being beaten for ten minutes and barely managing to get away
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I don't think most people *are* that confident -- I think most people weighing in to defend the cop have just settled on the first narrative as the truth, and don't want to think about other possibilities because it upsets their simple worldview
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They devote a whole scene in the matrix to justifying why it's okay for the heroes to kill a bunch of people who have no idea they're even involved in the conflict. So yeah I kinda get it.
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This is a foundational issue of our criminal system, as well tbh. You're either 'guilty' and imprisoned or 'not guilty' & free to leave, with zero ground for any type of nuance or grey area*. "Good guys" and "bad guys" encoded into law. *in theory, grey area is 'not guilty'
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There is a profound idea in American culture that any and all force is allowed to stop any lawbreaking or criminal activity, regardless of how minor or trivial.
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The idea that someone, somewhere may be violating the rules and getting away with it seems to offend the American id.
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Lots of the comments on reddit are 100% on this drive - "she forfeited her right to life by drawing a knife".
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People also generally lock in on who the good guy is extremely hard: once the victim has been killed, they retroactively adopt general policy positions that justify the kill, even if inconsistent with the last case or would equally justify any number of admitted bad things
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