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MrDangerMan t1_iyf7tfy wrote

Reply to comment by TopDeckHero420 in Tennessee officers won’t face charges for violent arrest ----- A district attorney says a grand jury has declined to indict police officers after an investigation by Tennessee's police agency into the violent arrest of a Black man for alleged traffic violations by paulfromatlanta

He committed a minor traffic infraction and was going to get away with it. They couldn’t handle that because it represented a total disregard for their power and authority, so they kicked in his door and beat the shit out of him.

Should people be allowed to just ignore police commands? Of course not. Is this a use of force appropriate to the context? No fucking way. It’s treating a stop sign runner with the same force as someone who just robbed a bank.

It’s absolutely absurd that people parrot the idiotic argument that if the police are justified in apprehending someone they are automatically justified in using any level of force to do so. It’s a position only taken up by cowards and sycophants.

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