I think I know the answer but just checking…

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    If you have like multiple cameras running and the cop is completely giving it away, saying "I'm going to kill you, specifically for fun, not because I fear for my life, which I do not" then maybe. You might get away with it if they stupidly catalogued their own criminal acts as part of some corruption scheme that is later uncovered. And maybe his department doesn't assassinate you afterward.

    But in a normal circumstance, no. The justice system assumes its own justification, and if the cop dies then they'll assume the cop was doing his job to the letter, and any threatening actions by the cop are retroactively justified because you demonstrated that you were a dangerous person. It's an intentional catch-22.

    If the cop is just a psychopath who decides that evening he wants to murder someone, then under the laws of the United States, it's illegal for you to survive that encounter.

    EDIT: Like, to be clear, it would be treated as a serious crime if George Floyd had lived another day on this earth