• @Fecundpossum
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    431 year ago

    If the protestors who drew their weapons made this guy take the room temperature challenge instead of showing restraint, they would have likely been justified in the eyes of the law, and rightly so. When someone brandishes a weapon from a vehicle, or under the partial cover of a vehicle, it’s not on the defender to check and make sure it’s a real gun. Pulling gun shaped toys in public is a really bad idea and should have fatal consequences.

    • circuscritic
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      261 year ago

      This is rural-ish Oregon and I’d say it’s better then even odds that the police then kill the protester(s), or write up their report to justify an arrest and prosecution. Having protestor/public video would be the only potential saving grace in that calculus, at least if they aren’t killed prior to being arrested.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      21 year ago

      take the room temperature challenge

      Hadn’t heard this one before.