Authorities in Ohio say they will release body camera footage of a fatal police shooting of a pregnant Black woman.

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      1 year ago

      I think that you had reached your conclusion by the end of the headline, and didn’t need to actually read the article.

      I’ve been following this story since before the pigs announced they were going to release footage.

      I think that in the absence of proof, you broadly assume the police are guilty until proven otherwise.

      Yes. In every last case. Pigs have been behaving so poorly for so long that there is no reason to do anything but mistrust them until the instant they provide incontrovertible proof. Their word is less than worthless. Anything they say without actual evidence to back it up is a fucking lie as far as I’m concerned, and anyone who defends them without available proof does so out of naivete or bad faith because they love it when pigs murder unarmed black people for them.

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          1 year ago

          “Guilty until proven innocent” is the legal standard of a dictatorship, lynch mob, organized crime syndicate, or kindergartner.

          First of all, we’re talking about my personal standard for believing someone. I do not trust people who voluntarily join an institution with a long unrepentant history of racist oppression. Their word is garbage and I require actual evidence.

          They chose to become cops. I don’t trust them for the same reason I don’t trust white supremacists. It’s like trusting a babysitter wearing a NAMBLA shirt.