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- Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Yeah, I don’t think it would work.
…and yet it does. You do know I wasn’t describing a theory I made up, I was describing the reality of Policing in my Country?
American Cops are also answerable to the courts.
I didn’t say they weren’t. I said not “in the way you’d compare it to US Police”. Take one infamous case from last year. Philando Castile, a guy who was shot dead on the spot for reaching into his glove box in a suspicious way:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36732908
The Officer who killed him was acquitted of all charges. An officer in the UK in the same situation would have been hung, drawn and quartered (so to speak). Killing a member of the public is the last thing they are ever supposed to do. Sometimes it’s required as a last, last, last resort but in a situation like it did not need to happen on any sane level.
A world away from “He looked at me funny”, or “He reached into his glove box, so I executed him on the spot just in case he was going to do something” no questions asked.
Oh good God.
It’s shocking isn’t it (see example above).