The murder of Breonna Tayler isn't about racism.
It's about cops being out of control. It's about the evil and destructive policy of "qualified immunity". It's about the evil practice of no-knock raids, and the expectation that people sit quietly and allow violent intruders to invade their homes without opposition. It's about the demand that you sit and die peacefully instead of shooting back at bad guys who are kicking in your door with guns drawn. And it's about prohibition.
If you want to defend cops, you are on the side of the police state.
Police are the problem; the War on Politically Incorrect Drugs is the fuel.
Some copsuckers are saying this wasn't a murder. Yeah, right.
If I break into your house with guns drawn and then kill a woman inside the house, did I murder her? Of course I did. Anyone inside that house would be right to fill me full of lead until I stop twitching. It makes zero difference if the person in my place wears a badge. If you imagine it does, you might as well move to North Korea right now, because America isn't the place for you and isn't made better by your presence.
There is always only one question to ask when cops kill someone: Was that person (or, in this case, anyone else who belonged in that house) currently violating the life, liberty, or property of anyone else? That's a big, fat nope.
Cops are scum. Nothing will change for the better until people stop pretending otherwise and start seeing them for what they are.
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You made some good points, Kent, like about qualified immunity and the problematic nature of no-knock raids in a country that has "stand your ground" and "home as castle" laws. You also correctly pointed out that the cops responded violently.
But you failed to point out that the person who started shooting, without making sure who was coming through the door, was Mr. Walker. You failed to point out, also, that police are trained to respond to force with escalated force (right or wrong, they want to go home at the end of a harrowing day). You made no mention of the officer who was shot by Mr. Walker, either.
So, yes, it was murder, but there was a context that you stripped your narrative of.
And, finally, you said "Cops are scum." Yes, indeed, some are. But to make a blanket statement undermines your argument because there are plenty of good cops out there, too.
You try doing their job and see how you feel a few years down the road.
If you're courageous enough to call out injustice, be courageous enough to provide a balanced narrative instead of being like all the yellow journalists and pandering politicians.
If you revise your article, let me know.
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If someone kicks in your door you have every right to start shooting them. The one who makes the choice to take a "job" that involves being a gang member deserves to be shot while doing it. Sorry, but that's just how it goes.
Yes, all gangsters want the same. They would much prefer their victims die instead of them. They are still scum. I would always rather the person who wasn't actively being the bad guy be the one to survive to the end of the gangster's day.
Nope. Not a single solitary one, because you can't do that "job" and be a good person. The "job" is defined by the acts they commit, not by who they might have been had they made better choices.
If they were good they would quit that "job" or get fired (or killed by their gang brothers) immediately. If you can't think this uncomfortable fact through, maybe this will help.
I have ethical principles, so I wouldn't do that any more than I'd become a rapist to see how difficult their lives are. Do I need to become a rapist so I can see how I feel about rapists being identified as bad guys? Or, am I allowed to correctly point out that anyone who rapes is defined by the evil act he commits that gives him his identifying label?
All cops are scum.
If you revise your opinion to embrace the harsh reality you are unhappy with, let me know. Because you are dead wrong on this point.
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Your pseudo-intellectual response as an anarchist needs no further response than that I hope you come to realize that dichotomies only exist in theory.
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Apparently, you don't understand the word dichotomy, and you're obfuscating by trying to put words in my mouth.
You go ahead and keep seeing the world as black and white when it's not.
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I was just playing with the word like you were-- in an utterly meaningless way. Funny how you could see it in what I wrote without the self-awareness to see it in what you wrote.
Dichotomies exist all over the place in the real world. A dog is either alive or it isn't. Rapists are either good people or they aren't. I say they aren't for the exact same reason cops aren't good people: the acts they commit. You claim this can't be true.
It isn't all black and white, but you're denying when it is black and white just because facing reality doesn't suit you.
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The last time I met an anarchist, he was a heck of a lot smarter than you. Yet, when he got a small taste of anarchy, he abandoned his new wife and fled the country. I'm not playing with words.
No, pretty much everything is a spectrum.
Birth is the beginning and death is the end, with stages of growth, decline and decay in between.
When we talk about human nature, it is a very complex thing, so a person who is a philanthropist and pays his employees above the average is looked at as being a good person until it's discovered that he's ALSO a serial rapist, at which point he's evil.
Cops are on the same spectrum, and your naive assertions ignore the fact that there are many reasons people become police officers, and I doubt that many of them do so for the reason you use to justify your smear campaign of them.
As I said, go ahead and look at the world from your over-simplified point of view, but don't expect me to swallow that BS.
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