Why did he Run

Timshel

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http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-innocent-flee-from-police.html

"Why did he run?" This question thrusts itself upon us every time an unarmed or otherwise harmless person is gunned down while fleeing from police.


Often that inquiry takes the form that assumes the guilt of the victim: "If he did nothing wrong, why did he run?" It's also common for that second version to contort itself into a nicely circular argument: "Well, he ran, and resisting arrest is a crime, so obviously he got what was coming to him."


For reasons unclear to a mind not enthralled by statist assumptions, most people simply assume that both reason and morality dictate an unqualified duty to surrender without cavil or complaint whenever armed, violence-prone strangers in peculiar government-issued garb seek to restrain one of us.
 
Criminals will sometimes use this penchant for submission and dress up in mock garb resembling the peculiar garment of the official government issued garb.
 
why do they run? Because anyone with enough intelligence over the last decade should realize that the government thugs are NOT your friends.
 
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-innocent-flee-from-police.html

"Why did he run?" This question thrusts itself upon us every time an unarmed or otherwise harmless person is gunned down while fleeing from police.


Often that inquiry takes the form that assumes the guilt of the victim: "If he did nothing wrong, why did he run?" It's also common for that second version to contort itself into a nicely circular argument: "Well, he ran, and resisting arrest is a crime, so obviously he got what was coming to him."


For reasons unclear to a mind not enthralled by statist assumptions, most people simply assume that both reason and morality dictate an unqualified duty to surrender without cavil or complaint whenever armed, violence-prone strangers in peculiar government-issued garb seek to restrain one of us.
IN 2001 I had just moved to Cincinnati. 3 days after I started my new job an all white jury found a police officer not guilty for the shooting death of a young black man who ran from the police officer when he was confronted for selling pot. A small amount of pot was found on the victim. Even veteren police officers were shocked at this blatant use of excessive force. The news of the white police officer being aquited sparked the now famous "Over The Rhine" riots in Cincinnati (which was about 2 blocks from where I worked at the time).
 
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