A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.
The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.
While I agree that this should be a severe offence that removes the perpetrator permanently from any employment from city to federal, killing people just brings you down to their level.
I have no problem holding police officers to a higher standard of behavior than the general populace.
A higher standard and the death penalty are two very different things.
If you dont wanna die dont beat innocent people, doesnt seem hard.
I get that, but I also don’t like the government deciding who lives and who dies. It’s too error-prone and corruption-prone for me to be comfortable with that.
*non violent people
So? They won’t come up to our level so we’ll just have to beat them at their level. We aren’t going to win this by playing by a set of rules they don’t have to follow.
You aren’t going to win by daydreaming about executing cops either.