And how many innocent victims would they then be responsible for?
We don’t need to escalate a war between the cops and the people.
Look - it’s time to stop pretending. The ‘civil rights’ movement has morphed into a ‘criminal protection’ agency. I have no desire to see decent cops die to protect lowlifes. It might be time to call the ‘community’ on their disgusting ways...
And how many innocent victims would they then be responsible for?
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Holy Crap!!! There you go already. What about some responsibility on the PERPETRATORS of the crimes or the people who hate cops and protest and riot in the streets? How about them being “responsible”.
I imagine - from the NYPD POV - there is already a war between the people AGAINST the cops. Between the "I can't breathe" protesters on the left and "Cops are scum" libertarians on the right; I imagine the cops really do feel alone and set apart by the people.
It's bad enough that Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, etc ... (all of us who aren't ‘black’) have to buy security systems for our homes, arm ourselves, and lose the value in our homes in order to run away from endless black criminals.
Blacks can protect their own neighborhoods. Give a portion of city tax money to Sharpton and the NAACP and let them protect the ‘community’. Maybe they can hire black panthers. I don't care. Maybe they can hire black thugs straight out of prison. Whatever they want. Their 'community' is NOT worth the life of one cop - white, black or Asian...
Legally?
None. The police have zero constitutional responsibility to protect any specific citizen.
That is part of what the second amendment is for.