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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Why stay and be forced to answer questions and risk your life if you've done nothing wrong?
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See, to me THAT is the ridiculous question in this argument, not mine. Why stay? Um, the guy would likely be alive if he hadn't run and just allowed himself to be arrested.
"Forced to answer questions"?? Really now, what's so horrible about having to answer a few questions.
"Risk your life" --- What's the greater risk here, offering no resistance when getting arrested or running/brandishing a weapon/threatening officers?
Look, I don't much care for cops either. What I'm saying is there are certain givens when it comes to them. Like it's a given that if you resist arrest you absolutely WILL get hurt. Pull a weapon and refuse to drop it and you WILL get tasered or shot...or both. It's a given. I don't make the rules but knowing this information forces me to side with those saying the guy was an idiot.
It's like, you know that jumping out of a plane at 10,000 feet without a parachute is in all probability going to get you killed, yet you do it anyway. Is it gravity's or the ground's fault for killing you? Or is it your own stupidity?
Here's another given: Cops are not going to stop getting aggressive with people who resist arrest while armed. So what's the point in arguing about it?