Police blew up an innocent man’s house in search of an armed shoplifter. Too bad, court rules.

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[–]Drewski 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

These are the real domestic terrorists.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Police kill 1200 Americans a year. And something like 60 police die in the line of duty every year. If it were a war, we'd call it a massacre.

Meanwhile Germany and the UK have around 0.5 people killed by police per year on average, combined.

If you adjust per-capita, we're closer to Brazil than we are to anywhere in Western Europe. It's a damn shame.

Also we literally have 3 million people, 1% of the total US population, locked in concrete cages right at this moment. It's a world record both in raw numbers and per-capita.

I don't know how anyone is okay with this, tbh

[–]vaganger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm okay with it.

[–]FormosaOolong 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Right? And we're being entrained to just accept it as normal. For our "safety."

[–]vaganger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How should they have dealt with the armed suspect inside the house?

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Smoke him out? Wait him out? Do it like every other developed other police department in the world does? Blowing up the whole house is not okay, especially if they just do it and then leave the homeowners with the bill

[–]vaganger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're an idiot.