• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I am not defending the Philadelphia PDs actions here, which were clearly inappropriate, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say they “murdered” 11 people. If the PD kills someone while trying to serve an arrest warrant after being shot at, that is pretty clearly a lawful homicide and not murder. The death of the children could certainly be considered manslaughter but I don’t think it meets the standard for murder either since there was, arguably, no intention to kill them.

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      6 hours ago

      thanks officer pig

      Certainly the best way to “serve an arrest warrant”.
      Who coul’ve imagined innocent men, women and children would die horribly from this:
      serve an arrest warrant

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      8 hours ago

      So it seems like you’re something of an expert on this subject, and that being the case maybe you can help answer a question I’ve had for a while:

      Do different boot leathers have different tastes, or is it more of a texture thing?

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      A brutal atrocity committed by a police department and your reaction is to “Well, AKTSHUALLY”, where’s your goddamn sense of empathy man?

      Calling the bombing of a neighbourhood simply “inappropriate” is fucked and I fear for your humanity. “Inappropriate” is when I fart at the dinner table, not when one uses bombs on other humans.

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      I am not defending the Philadelphia PDs actions here

      That’s literally what you’re doing. Literally.

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      My brother in Christ, they were charged with useing excessive force and burned down a huge part of a neighborhood. Fuck off out of here with that god awful take.

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      Sometimes I wonder how the us has gotten away with its too numerous to count war crimes and crimes against humanity; and then, like magic, one of you appear.

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        I literally said I am not defending the police department. People should absolutely have gone to jail for this, but explain to me how it’s murder for a police officer to shoot and kill someone who shot at them first, while legally trying to serve a warrant.

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      You don’t think dropping bombs counts as intent to kill? I think they were careless enough regarding collateral damage to say they killed the victims.