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Authorities said Brown, who had experienced homelessness for several years, was shot during a shoplifting incident, but Brown’s friends said he was not shoplifting.

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  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Good to know if you're a minority suspected of shoplifting that a rent a cop can just murder you and not be charged with anything

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Murdering minorities is legal as long as you’re not that person every 5 years who gets sent to prison to pretend it isn’t

      • Changeling [it/its]
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        1 year ago

        I have a better chance of being jailed for an unpaid parking ticket than any cop has of being jailed for murder.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Imagine the reactions if people started getting murdered in China for trivial reasons after multiple years of Chinese news demonizing them.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      cue articles on the death of retail and "nobody wants to shop anymore"

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Officer related firearm discharge at suspected shoplifter :pigmask-off: