Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

  • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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    Debate it.

    Running from police in a high crime area used to be considered probable cause.

    That’s changing now because running from police in a high crime area is an eminently reasonable thing to do even if you’re innocent.

    If the tactic is demonstrably employed as a pretextual justification to kill nonviolent criminal suspects, than it’s reasonable to say that statutory law of resisting arrest should be the thing that breaks, not the natural law of self defense.

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      If you don’t run from police and instead get out of the car like they’re asking they’re not going to shoot you for fleeing. Pretty simple.

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      You want me to debate against someone saying you should floor it any time police walk in front of your car??