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Comment by joemazerino

3 days ago

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Doesn’t matter if he was or wasn’t resisting arrest. Totally irrelevant. This is supposed to be a country of laws. There is no law that allows for execution for resisting arrest.

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    • If someone has a firearm and resists arrest... you arrest him.

      Is there proof of lethal self-defence being required? Then show the proof of that, nothing has come out in support of that.

      Your hypothetical is big, if true... but it's not.

And, as everyone knows, the typical punishment for resisting arrest is public execution.

In revolutionary France.

They have two agents holding his hands to the ground while another is beating him in the face with a baton repeatedly. That's not an arrest!

They're just thugs who gang up on people and use the violence they themselves are committing as proof of "resisting arrest" to justify escalating violence. There are now numerous videos of them using excessive force, like spraying a from inches away while while am agent has them pinned down, hands behind back. Or a subdued person in cuffs getting a knee to the back of their neck.

Stop with the soft defense/soft endorsement of Federal officials executing people on the street.