If you follow the instructions of the police officers you have little reason to not feel safe. If you fight, resist, run etc. you've given up your rights to safety.
here's a man who was laying down on the ground, hands in the air, talking calmly. cop still shot him:
> When the 2016 incident occurred, Soto had fled his group home with a shiny silver toy truck. Kinsey, a behavioral therapist, lay down on the ground, put his hands in the air and tried to explain to officers that both he and Soto were unarmed, according to video of the incident taken by a witness.
> Aledda then fired his rifle at Soto, striking Kinsey in the leg, as radio communication clarified the toy Soto held wasn't a gun
> [the police officer] did not serve any prison time and instead was sentenced to probation and asked to write a 2,500 word essay on policing.
Essentially - you should follow all orders given by police officers, whether they are justified or not. If you don't, you forfeit all rights to be alive.
How on earth can you possibly say that? Not following the orders of some jacked up power trip officer means you've given up all your rights to be alive?
This has to be the worst take in the entire thread.
Very easy to say from a distance, not so easy to not resist when someones pointing a gun at you or gripping you so tightly you're being strangled to death.
There are, at minimum, 50 million police-citizen encounters in the USA annually. Fewer than 1200 individuals are killed by police in a given year, on average. The odds of an unarmed American who does not pose a direct threat being shot by the police are fewer than one-in-a-million.
