r/policebrutality • u/real-m-f-in-talk • Oct 29 '24

News: Video While responding to noise complaint, Columbus cop Adam Coy turned his attention next door and fatally shoots an innocent man, mistaking keys for "silver revolver". Police didn't render aid after shooing.

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u/TequieroVerde Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24

So police kill, then we pay. It's like are our foreign policy: bomb, then provide "aid". The problem is that no one is ever made whole. Money doesn't buy you legs; it doesn't magically reconnect a severed spine; it doesn't alleviate the psychological trauma of being mistakenly sequestered by US Marshals. Some flour and jugs of water are poor payment for turning a community into rubble.

I say that cops should stop harassing, beating and killing us. I say we stop bombing other countries. But nothing will change. There are too many interests involved.

Moreover, collateral damage isn't a dirty word. US drone strikes kill between 7.5 and 15.5% of civilian non-combatants (innocent men, women and children etc). That is acceptable percentage of innocent death in pursuit of a bombing objective.

Every country has their political comfort limit unless of course the goal is genocide or ethnic cleansing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes#:~:text=Taken%20together%2C%20independent%20estimates%20from,similar%20rate%20from%202017%E2%80%932019.

Nicholas Grossman, Trump Cancels Drone Strike Casualty Report: Does It Matter?, War on the Rocks (April 2, 2019)

My argument here is that there seems to be an acceptable amount of "collateral damage" (read as unjustified police brutality against innocent civilians) within the borders of the USA to maintain "order". The pertinent question is what percentage of collateral damage is acceptable inside of the United States. The numbers are rising, and I don't see a systemic move to stop the increase.

https://policeepi.uic.edu/u-s-data-on-police-shootings-and-violence/

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u/Isair81 Oct 29 '24

The Empire is in decline, and as a part of that process the level of violence from the part of the regime increases, both at home and abroad.