re: #3 Great White Snark

I wish we knew how hard a fight he put up. It’s almost always a system fail when an unarmed man gets killed in an arrest. It’s a lot more likely one v one. It takes a high level of violence against a P.O. to justify killing. But the cop has an obligation to complete the arrest so they don’t back off ever.

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Or quite a bit?

But Robinson did have a criminal history. He pleaded guilty to armed robbery, a felony, in October 2014, according to state court records. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail, which was stayed by the judge, and three years of probation. He was arrested along with four others in April 2014 after a home invasion in Madison, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Police said at the time that the group was seen entering an apartment, one armed with a shotgun. They stole electronics and other property.

I know little about this whole event but, and I am not advocating or excusing this in any way, shape or form, there is a difference between actual violence and perceived violence. Meaning, who was carrying a gun in that home invasion? (Home invasion is usually a robbery when someone is home vs B&E with a weapon, right?) Was it this guy?

Let’s now assume for a moment that it was this guy. Yeah, it was a shitty thing to do, especially if they scared the living daylights out of the owners, but isn’t that what the court system is for? To lock perpetrators up in prison…not to execute them on the street?

We’ve gone from a system of rules and laws to an allowed vigilante system with police being the lone arbiters of meting out justice. And that justice is apparently wild, wild west style.