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Originally Posted by lagtight
Whenever a cop shoots and kills a citizen, it's a big story nationally (as well it should be).
Yes 'it should be'.
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There are probably citizen on citizen murders in Chicago that don't even make the lead story on the front page of the Chicago Tribune.
Yes.
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The average black person probably has about a 100X greater probability of being murdered by his neighbor than by a cop. And yet the media hysteria has little old ladies afraid to leave their apartments because they might get killed by a cop.
Apparently, the only time Black Lives Matter is when the murderer is a cop.
That is a poor extrapolation.
We all know crime happens and want that reduced and eliminated where possible. That said 'criminals gonna criminal' and thus it is pretty hard to make them follow the law.
Cops are very different. They SHOULD follow the law and they are paid and given special power to PROTECT AND SERVE the citizenry.
So yes, one cop mercilessly kneeling on the neck of a man until he is dead is rightly seen as multiples more egregious by the citizenry than the types of crimes criminals subject them to.
If a robber, stole your property and you called the police who then showed up and robbed you the latter would be considered worse as it involves an abuse of power and trust.