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@blueseaview 22 Yes, especially if the chokehold is targeting the blood supply rather than the airway.
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Do they? The protests around police killings often fail to account for the possibility that lethal force was necessary and reasonable. Not to mention the notion that if somebody is pulled over, it's due to their skin color rather than the possibility that they just committed some sort of traffic infraction. It's an extremist view, to be sure, but there are definitely people out there that believe it.
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@AaronHampton123 If you can't see the difference between this and Dahmer, you have no credibility of any sort. Dahmer would kill and eat his victims when he wasn't preserving the body parts. He was a sick and twisted man far above and beyond what these cops did. These cops should be put on trial and likely sent to prison for a long period of time. This false equivalency does nothing to support your view. Why stop there, perhaps they're exactly like Hitler for trying to kill somebody that wasn't white or perhaps Nathan Bedford Forrest while we're at it.
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He was operating in a time where these communities largely were without the ability to vote. It's massively inconvenient for these people to vote in some cases, but they generally are allowed to vote. As long as they vote for people like Biden, they're going to be treated like this. Biden and the Clintons were supporters of various efforts that lead to so many Black men going to prison. There's also the issue that there's fundamentally a disagreement about the facts in many of these cases and these communities have done a terrible job of trying to explain why they should be immune to lethal force when white people have been killed in similar circumstances at or around the same time. One of the reasons why this case is drawing so much attention and people are largely in agreement that we need a trial is because it's not normal, we have footage that is pretty clear that he didn't do anything to warrant being killed and at basically every point up until his death, the police officers could have done something less dangerous to arrest him.
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But, it's really not a pattern. The main issue is the number of contacts between law enforcement and some of these communities, everything stems from there. This case was a case of bad actors engaged in illegal conduct. But, in many other cases, that's simply not the case and the news media failing to differentiate between legitimate actions that lead to death and illegitimate ones is part of the problem. Tamir was shot under similar circumstances to a white guy that was shot in my parents' neighborhood. The police rolled up and within a matter of seconds had killed him. In both cases the recordings were pretty clear that the police had the right to use lethal force and yet in only one of those cases did people get outraged over it. As long as we're failing to differentiate between legal and illegal use of force there's little hope of actually addressing the situations that leads to these kinds of killlings.
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