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midasz ◴[] No.23347216[source]
Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..
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101404 ◴[] No.23347368[source]
The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it?

Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.

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midasz ◴[] No.23347381[source]
You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?

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liaukovv[dead post] ◴[] No.23347431[source]
If those "people" started looting my property i would have very much liked for someone to shoot them
midasz ◴[] No.23347492[source]
Ah so now they are "people"? The people who loot should be arrested and tried. Once you start using force many innocent people will be caught in the crosshairs, this will only further escalate the situation.
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liaukovv ◴[] No.23347529[source]
Yes, using violence in politics reduces their humanity in my eyes. They started using force, giving in only invites more violence in the future.
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totalZero ◴[] No.23347791[source]
This "if I back off, I will show weakness" mentality is precisely what leads so many police officers to use excessive force despite being surrounded by bystanders pleading for mercy on behalf of their fellow citizens.

When the people have to resort to violence to get public servants to do their jobs and relieve the wounds of injustice, the only appropriate response is to give them justice.

Lastly, I remind you that the public did not initiate the use of force in this riotous controversy. A police officer did.

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liaukovv ◴[] No.23347867[source]
You will show weakness and that weakness will be exploited again. How is that debatable is beyond me.

Police are allowed to use violence, that's their reason for existing, if that violence was misused it can be handled in non-violent way, that's what society is built around. It might not be instant or easy, but that's the difference between civil discourse and terrorism.

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1. happytoexplain ◴[] No.23349318[source]
>if that violence was misused it can be handled in non-violent way

This is demonstrably false for the genre of police crime in question. When the people being murdered react with violence, it is unrealistic to brush that away as evil because those people aren't exclusively using the proper legal channels instead.