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Originally Posted by nota
990-782 = 208 unarmed dead people
look I have no problem with a cop shooting an armed criminal
but over 200 dead who were unarmed ?
and how many of those cops are in jail or even tried ?
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I know this is a huge part of the current narrative; however, being
armed has never been a requirement for being shot.
By virtue of the fact that cops carry guns, they have always had every right to keep unarmed suspects at bay - with deadly force if necessary. It is not the least bit uncommon for a criminal or a mentally ill suspect to try and get the cops gun from him.
Here locally, we just dedicated a park to a fallen officer. The cop was in active pursuit, on foot, of a very large man who had just abandoned a stolen a new, big rig tractor.
The suspect, quite a bit larger than the cop, was running in a dark park carrying a tire iron. The cop tripped, fell, and the mother****er grabbed the gun from the fallen cop and executed him. He was a young dad.
I'm sure many would scream bloody murder if the cop had just killed the perp. They'd also be likely to say he was unarmed. But that cop is very dead, and he left behind a young family of 3.