Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police

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Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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Is this where society is heading? Rampant theft resolved with murder to save corporations?

To them, this probably sounds easier than lowering prices, reducing CEO’s millions in pay and propping up stock prices.

The governor of Florida and presidential hopeful said looters will be shot on sight. So no, it's not where we're headed because we've passed that destination and it's normal. Property is firmly above people.

There’s a reason why Militech and Arasaka are the biggest players in the cyberpunk rpg universe. Once corporatocracy reigns supreme and public funding is gone they reap profits off private security, as intended. We’re just now seeing the horizon of “defund the police” becoming “hire a PMC as your ‘police force’”

this may surprise you, but the police started out as PMC union-busting operations

Oh lol I’m totally aware. There was a time in history where striking didn’t mean you’d be fired but instead fired upon. Just sucks to see it now coming back full circle

Reminds me of the news in cyberpunk 2077 telling how "warning shots to the knee" became legal for police

Yes. To get back to normality, we must pass through this extreme, which is the necessary counter to defunding and demonizing the police as opposed to holding only the bad ones responsible for their actions. We'll be in this state until we remove qualified immunity. So it will probably take a while.

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