One could, if one were a sociopath that thinks people on foot watching street racers do donut pose a credible threat to an armed law enforcement officer driving a several ton vehicle and then proceeds to blame the former for getting mowed down.
For the record, we heard the same excuses you're throwing out being used to defend Heather Heyer's murderer. Check yourself.
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Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Warning : Above post may contain snark and/or sarcasm. Try reparsing with the /s argument before replying.
What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Also known as you using hindsight bias to try and justify victim blaming, lol. Premeditation being deduced after the fact doesn't change the fact every chud and his dog was using the "the driver was in fear of his life because people were banging on the windows" excuse at the time, just like you're doing here.
The only thing that would possibly prove you wrong, in your view, is an admission of wrongdoing by the police. Which is convenient because in a system where police never have to admit they did anything wrong, they never have to be wrong.
It's a lazy and stupid line of reasoning. /yawn
Gee maybe you could go back and read all the posts in the thread detailing what actions American law enforcement could have possibly taken that might cause people to react negatively to their presence.I still wonder why someone feels the need to start hitting cop car
I still wonder why you think an unarmed pedestrian poses a credible threat to an armed officer in a several ton vehicle.![]()
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
So they foresaw the future? Because hitting was clearly happening before the cop drove them over.
Ah, so that allows attacking cop cars? Really? Fucking really? Like, I should be applauded if I would go and start breaking some random police car in USA?
You think those windows are made of bulletproof glass? Pff.....
For starters, the whole "attacking the cop car" shit hasn't been proven definitively beyond you insisting that the video you watched supports your bias, so there's that.
Second, fuck off with the bad faith argument that saying "running over pedestrians is bad" is an endorsement of attacks on police.Really? Fucking really? Like, I should be applauded if I would go and start breaking some random police car in USA?
You think those windows are made of bulletproof glass? Pff.....
It's abundantly clear you're operating from a position of believing that if the cop doesn't respond to a disrespect to their authority with extreme force people "won't be taught a lesson". Which isn't a commentary on right or wrong so much as it is a blatant endorsement of a police state.
I'll ask you again: why is it you think an unarmed pedestrian poses a credible threat to an armed, trained law enforcement officer driving a several ton vehicle? Some mood music while I wait:
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
And I will answer - tonnage does not matter, when somebody breaks the windows and hits you in the face. I could be driving Hummer and they still could do that - it weighs more than cop car.
Yeah, this argument perfectly explains the pointlessness of discussion here.
I watched video on BBC. Driving over people happens after hitting sounds (quite similar to those when banging on car's window).
So yes, you do think that an unarmed pedestrian poses a credible threat to a trained and armed law enforcement official driving a several ton vehicle which is a police car and thus likely modified for exactly this sort of situation.
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Anecdotal but I will also add that as a WA resident, Tacoma PD are only slightly less of a circus than Seattle PD and we all know what those clowns get up to.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Here you're just admitting you don't know what sort of equipment American police use, speaking of laughable and wrong.
And you're also admitting you've never watched a single episode of Mythbusters, to boot, if you think breaking safety glass by slapping it a few times is like... a thing.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
I love how you think even regular safety glass is easy to break by hand, let alone the kind they use for LEO vehicles.
I also like how you're just blatantly ignoring the many articles in this thread detailing the militarization of American law enforcement in terms of equipment and how overfunded they are, especially in large cities like Tacoma.
But hey you saw a video on the BBC that you interpreted in a way so that's objective fact, right?![]()
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
There's a lot of discussion of window smashing for an incident where no windows were smashed. More fun and games from the property > lives crowd.
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Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi