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- May 24, 2021
The biggest thing I don’t understand about US police is why they always shoot to kill. When watching european police use their weapons, even in harsher european countries outside of EU, like Russia, they tend to shoot at the legs.You can be against police shooting in a situation like Ashli Babbitt's and still see how/why they did and how it's not a real federal case, same for a good chunk of these other bad shoots out there. (And not so for lots of others.) Yet all these people instantly compare it to the BLM protests/riots/etc. and start "just asking questions" about who they're allowed to shoot now. They're so quick to jump on anything as a "secret plan" by the Left yet they don't seem to see how Ashli Babbitt is exactly what they complain about, a tragedy within a larger event being lifted into a cudgel against cultural enemies.
There's also something... strange... about how far they go to create narratives about how police were justified because somebody was bad and got what's coming to them (I often see George Floyd raised as the equivalent to Babbitt) but when there's an instance of police directly in a conflict and possibly screwing up by being a bit fast on the trigger there's no leeway given. Everything becomes that cudgel instead of lamenting that it's bad people are getting shot so often by police. I'd rather Babbitt and Floyd be alive and both Byrd and Chauvin have not killed anyone but in the pro-Trump fever swamp it's like there's some sort of transactional value that matters more than these four people and it's "unfair" only in this case and only because she was a Trump supporter.
To this: I can't find it now I did actually love seeing some Trump people in a thread arguing January 6th was a "party with a carnival like atmosphere" to handwave away the part that got a bit out of control and condemn the police for something they tend to defend in every other instance.
Americans just unload their magazines into their assailant’s torso, as if they were playing paintball.