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Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is way worse than murder. 'Normal' murderers dont swear to protect citizens before killing them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact, they actually have no duty whatsoever to protect people :D

"In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police have a general "public duty," but that "no specific legal duty exists" unless there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.

The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the justices ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father. In 2005'sCastle Rock v. Gonzales, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices said the police had no such duty. "

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/

There's also of course the case with the Uvalde school shooting where not only did cops wait outside for hours as students were being picked off, but prevented parents from going in to try to get their kids out.

ACAB

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

every country has cars and police

Yes, but they also have educated and trained police. Here, a candidate must meet the requirements for university, be fit, and psychologically stable before he or she can start a training of three to five years.

Being police is more than just be intimidating and knowing which end of a gun is.the business end.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually this would be double murder. Now that fetuses are considered full human beings, remember abortions being murder? This is a double murder.

Eh, then again I'm sure that because this was a police officer, Republicans wont care. We must obey the police!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Her unborn child should have had a gun, then it could have shot the cop first

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What I see here is a cop trained to shoot to kill at the slightest chance.

I mean, if I ever visit this country and a policeman interacts with me I will pee my pants. Literally*.

*You know, like what "literally" meant in the old times.

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