A man is shot dead in Utah after posting threats online, hours before Joe Biden visits the state.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1255681

Archived version: https://archive.ph/tAw7a
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809205032/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66457089

  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Did the FBI came kicking down his door or did they come to talk to him only for him to refuse and demand a warrant. How would you be treated in the UK if you acted similarly?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Are you out of your mind? They would go away and get a warrant, for a gun thing they wouldn't even show up without one.

      There have only been 80 fatal police shootings in the UK since 1990. In 32 years.

      In the USA there have been 8,694 since 2015.

      You live in a fascist jackbooted police state where the cops kick down people's doors and execute them mate. Your failure to recognise this is simply a matter of seeing it as normal when it is completely fucking INSANE by the standards of literally every other country in the world.

      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        Just like they did here. For all we know, there was a shootout that resulted in his death. We don't have enough info to know what actually happened on during the raid.

        The fact that people in the US have more guns than the UK is a major reason there are more police shootings in the US. If more criminals possess a gun, of course it is more likely that they would start a shootout that results in death.

        Who's living in a police state? Why are you assuming I'm from the US? Can you not make baseless assumptions about other people when arguing. I feel like you're not even talking to me but to an imaginary strawman.

        Your last argument is literally useless since I also think the US is insane when it comes to police killings. I just don't assume everytime that it is simply police brutality because the US has more issues than just that. The amount of guns among the public also contribute to those stats.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          "For all we know" is a cop out. You're giving american cops the benefit of the doubt when they have explicitly demonstrated that you should never ever do that.