• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      You only need to see the number of all the “Back the Blue” bumper stickers to understand. A lot of us are conditioned to bow down to cops no matter what the facts of a situation are.

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      5 hours ago

      truly. they will likely intensify their efforts if we do, but the only other option we have is to keep rolling over and allowing it.

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        9 hours ago

        I can’t prove this, but I suspect they have some way of finding out who has a firearm, so they can avoid that person.

        I also suspect, but cannot prove, that the media will hide it when one of them gets shot. I say this because one of them got hit by a car and it wasn’t nationwide news served up by tearful news anchors about this innocent agent who would never hurt a fly.

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ice-agent-struck-by-fleeing-suspect-s-car-in-new-jersey/ar-AA25HuS7

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        9 hours ago

        We’re already pretty close to open civil war. Might as well rip the bandaid off and get it over with i guess. I’d rather not, but that’s the way things seem to be going.

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      9 hours ago

      If I was going about my daily life with a 3 year old in the back I wouldn’t be too interested in getting into a shootout either.

      But I agree, I’m waiting for a shoe to drop here, how much more tense can it be?