At some point, Americans will come to realize that our police force is out of control and poorly trained. It gets swept under the rug when the victims can be scapegoated as "threatening" or "uncooperative" because American society has come to weirdly accept death sentences for not listening to cops. It's an absurd standard, but these days, being American means bowing down to authority or risk dying for not kneeling quickly enough.
The rest of the civilized world sees that behavior falling somewhere between unacceptable and low-level tyranny, but we've grown accustomed it and embraced it. Regardless of how egregious the shooting is, we will always preface the condemnation with some variation of "...if they had just listened..."
Nowhere is the absurdity of America's police force more clearly displayed than in their efforts to stop people from committing suicide by shooting them first.
Suicidal Man Stabs Himself, So Police Shoot and Kill Him - Counter Current News
Texas cops respond to suicide attempt, shoot Hispanic man — and then find out he’s a deputy
Man Threatens Suicide, Police Kill Him - The Daily Beast
Police shoot dead man in wheelchair who was 'trying to kill himself' | Americas | News | The Independent
VIDEO: Cops Kill Suicidal Native American In Broad Daylight as He Held a Knife to His Own Throat | The Free Thought Project
Man Calls a Suicide Prevention Hotline, SWAT Team Shows Up and Kills Him | The Free Thought Project
All in the last year.
When cops are dealing with someone who could be a threat to other people's safety, we have no problem okaying them to kill.
But how do we justify cops shooting someone who's a threat to no one but themselves? And how do we rationally say that we care so much about someone not hurting themselves that
we kill them to stop it from happening?
This isn't some random acts of violence by rogue cops. This is the natural extension of police power that we've come to accept in this country. We've become so accepting of police brutality and violence against the poor and oppressed, that when they slowly extend those powers to rest of society, we just shrug.
What makes this even more disgusting is that we supposedly have an American system that's set up to be vigilant against this, yet we remain silent about it. All this tells me is that the people who claim that they're opposed to tyranny coming from Washington are frauds. We'll welcome tyranny and a police state with open arms as long as it starts with the people we couldn't care less about.
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