• seathru@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    but I don’t celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either

    We don’t know what happened. He might have ran his mouth and found out he wasn’t a protected class anymore.

      • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        It does a little bit, I think.

        Yes, our prisons should be safe for those who are confined within them. I agree with that, and that less people should be confined in the first place.

        But there is a qualitative difference between “he was stabbed due to being a cop (or due to being THAT cop)” vs “He got into an altercation that resulted in him being stabbed, but which could have happened to anyone.”

        I think the kneejerk assumption is that he was targeted, which is worse IMO.

        Not that I shed a single tear for the fate of Derek Chauvin, mind you.