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To: zeugma

It would not surprise me if “ifinnegan” demanded the burned semi-truck driver be arrested for interfering with a police chase.


108 posted on 09/01/2017 12:46:18 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova
It would not surprise me if “ifinnegan” demanded the burned semi-truck driver be arrested for interfering with a police chase.

Ah well, there you have it. I've been trying to come up with a charge. Clearly I wasn't thinking on this from the proper perspective.

What is sad is that there is small, but very vocal minority at FR that would support exactly that kind of charge. Many have left the site over the years. Ten years ago you'd have seen a lot more support for that point of view. Not so much anymore. I know several posters who have turned 180 on this issue over the past decade and a half due to the obviousness of how out of control some cops are, and the facts that their fellow officers do nothing about it, as in this case.

It is amazingly similar to the extreme other side. Back when the whole Michael Brown thing went down a few years, I was skeptical of the shoot at first, but as the actual facts that surrounded the event came out, it was pretty obvious to me that it was a "good shoot". You'll have the BLM folks who can never be shown enough facts to sway their opinion. By the same token, there are some on the PLM (police lives matter) side who can pretty much never be convinced that the police are in the wrong now matter what the actual circumstances are, or how flimsy the excuse was that they had to open fire.

For myself I judge the circumstances through a fairly simple lens. I basically ask myself that if I, as a regular Joe were in the exact same circumstance, would be prosecuted for it. If the answer is 'yes', then the cop should face the same system I would. If not, then he should be acquitted or no-billed just as I would expect to be.

112 posted on 09/01/2017 1:02:51 PM PDT by zeugma (I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
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ifinnegan is usually rational but, here he does appear to exhibit signs of an I.Q. that is toast....burnt toast...


117 posted on 09/01/2017 1:19:08 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: moovova

I highly suspect that “ifinnegan” is a cop. Always sides with them and against “we, the people”.


194 posted on 09/01/2017 4:04:55 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: moovova

He will. He just hasn’t thought of it yet.


203 posted on 09/01/2017 4:26:52 PM PDT by sport
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