# Why are police so quick to kill?

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**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-police-so-quick-to-kill/787689 "2017-05-30T00:48:32Z")\
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> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> You think that the video shows good reason to shoot Terence Crutcher or Philando Castile?

My opinion is irrelevant. I _know_, not think, that the juries decided the cops were not guilty. So, the videos cannot, as a matter of fact, show that they killed for no good reason, otherwise they would be in prison.

You are looking at the videos and thinking that because it shows something that _might_ be a killing without good reason, it _must_ be such a killing. That’s not how the law, or for that matter logic, works.

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