I am not justifying anything. What I actually did say is that we only know what was reported and that the people who did the shooting are under investigation.
That’s the problem with you lot, you take reporting as gospel, I am awaiting further evidence.
But you are trying to hang your collective hats on one single incident that already isn’t true to try and justify that the person got shot simply by standing and by standing, he was a threat! Mental gymnastics indeed!
This tends to be the problem with hyperbolic statements, they are too easily proven false. It doesn’t lend credibility to any future arguments.
He was still guilty of culpable negligence e.g. The Boy-Did-YOU-Fuck-Up charge. And after serving a year in jail, he could conceivably still be a police officer.
Can we just get a ruling right here that Kearsen’s “Po-Po No Shoot Bystanders” argument is well and truly scuttled, and move on?
That guy shoulda gotten hung from his balls and it highlights a need for law enforcement change, but what it doesn’t do is prove that he got shot just for standing.
As i stated before, hyperbolic statements are easily disproved.
Ok, so he got shot for just standing when I cop didn’t want him to just stand. In any case, the larger point that cops seem to be using dangerous force against those who offer no resistance or danger to them still stands (no pun intended).
Oh, sorry, you had redefined what “just standing there” meant for the purposes of this thread.
You were very insistent that we use your definition. Since we accepted your definition, you should be operating under it as well. I thought that we were being quite accommodating by accepting your definition, have you changed your mind?
As I said in that paragraph, they were protesting, which by your definition means not just standing. As I said, the reasoning that the police use is that they were a threat.
So, do you want to use your definition, my definition, or do you just want to have it both ways?
In this case, you can simply be standing , even while protesting. What you can’t do as “simply standing” is kick tear gas canisters back at the police, by ANY definition of simply standing That takes care of your example. The others, the verdict is out on them still.
