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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yes, shoot me for wearing an anti-allergy mask officer. I'm begging you.
I will live like a king siphoning off your retirement pension if you shoot me for keeping pollen out of my nose.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you sweet summer child.

Cops can murder people in cold blood, on camera, and suffer absolutely no consequences.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, you're wrong.

They get a 2 week paid vacation. If they play their cards right, they can say they got PTSD and get to retire early with a pension and start over in another jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Don't forget getting to keep the murder weapon despite having "PTSD" from murdering a guy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good luck suing a cop. The courts have consistently ruled that they can basically do what they like and you can't sue them for shit.

https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/qualified-immunity

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

You know damn well police face no real consequences for their actions.

[–] pyre 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

even if somehow you get past qualified immunity, cops don't pay shit. it comes out of your (and your fellow citizens') taxes.