wat0n wrote:No one claimed it is. But I don't find it surprising cops will not want to die due to avoidable causes.
This is as absurd as saying we shouldn't care about murder because, well, the leading causes of death are diseases and natural ones after all.
No one claimed that cops do not want to die.
But yes, I agree that the original argument about the danger of the profession is absurd.
No, it's easy to infer who "him" refers to.
Yes, Mr. Floyd’s killer.
But you still have not explained how releasing Mr. Floyd’s killer if the bill was found to be counterfeit would have saved Mr. Floyd.
It's possible. Not that it has anything to do with the arrest - it was still done without following the MPD policy at the time, leading to death.
You already pointed out that the killer would probably have been let go if the bill was indeed counterfeit.
And it would make a difference in the court of the media, where Mr. Floyd is being portrayed as a drug abusing criminal.
It always depends on the case. The Taylor case is also not really comparable to the Floyd one, for reasons we also saw in the corresponding thread. I doubt the cop involved in the Taylor case would have been charged even outside the US.
The fact that police can kill innocent BIPOC people with impunity rest of the world does not change the fact that it is a reasonable assumption that cops will get away with it again in the USA.
Too bad you are missing all the other studies I cited. In reality, though, we wouldn't even know about some of the incidents if the cops hadn't been carrying bodycams. That includes incidents where the footage exonerates them.
Yes, it is true that right now, it is impossible to even know how many killings police have done in the USA because of a lack of data.
Forcing all cops to always have a working bodycam, and have these recordings all reviewed by civilian oversight groups, and then having their findings made public would enable us to get an accurate idea of the problem.
And then the problem of cops killing people can start to be addressed. But the US is not there yet.