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If a bunch of people in plainclothes rushed my car with guns drawn I'd think I was being robbed.
This comment doesn't make sense to me. Even if he did think he was being robbed, he's outnumbered four to one, and they already have guns drawn.
Opening fire isn't a winning strategy even then.
So police can act with the professionalism of criminal organizations, got it
Of course. All cops are criminals. Every single cop has at bare minimum been an accomplice and an assaultant. Most are also thieves, murderers, and/or rapists.
You wanna know who's trafficking kids? Who's bringing in the day's big moral panic drug? Who's selling illegal guns?
Always the cops. Literally every time.
No, they are not capable of that level of coordination discretion rationality discipline or community ties.
I'm curious how you reached that conclusion?
Because you're saying they can behave the same way without facing consequences?
When did I say that?
I have a feeling you're playing dumb for engagement, because truly no one can be as clueless as this. I suspect everyone else feels the same which is why your question is being ignored. Most of your post history is similarly unaware. There will be no further reply.
Didn't answer the question, of course.
is laying down to let them shoot and rob you the winning strategy?
Between that and dying, it's the better of the two.
being shot often entails dying.
I didn't say otherwise?
Hey, take it up with the person who laid out the idiotic scenario.
You mean like Charles Kinsey?
I said nothing about pulling a gun nor firing. Only what I would think if a bunch of people ran up with guns.
And we're going to ignore the context of the article you're commenting on?
I don't have any idea what you're trying to say, but whatever it is, I imagine we'll disagree.
Are you genuinely describing shooting at police as "heroic"?
Yikes.
Anything that gives us one less cop gives us a better world.
So your rebuttal is to suggest that they're violent thugs who kill at the slightest provocation and have no regard for human life or ability to talk shit out?
Supporting my point?
They really didn't think that reply through, did they?
You genuinely need help.
You seem to have gathered that the murder victim shot at the police. Unless you have another source, you are clearly not reading the linked article. It states that no footage shows that the victim ever shot, or had a gun in possession. States that he had no gun on or around him when they cleared the slumped body. The did however find a (most likely planted) gun in the car later. Do you need a class on reading comprehension or something?
Do you see the right hand window blow out, right before shit hits the fan?
What do you think could have caused that?