[ExI] ring of truth

Dan TheBookMan danust2012 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 15:30:09 UTC 2020


On Jun 1, 2020, at 6:26 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 9:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>>  > Perhaps it is the governor’s fault for failing to temporarily ban murderous riots.
> 
> Perhaps it's the police commissioner's fault for hiring murderous cops. Typically it takes between 10 and 20 minutes for a hanging person's heart to stop, the cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck managed to stop his heart in 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

The whole legal system works to dampen disincentives for police violence:

A few years old, but basically still true: https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938234/police-shootings-killings-prosecutions-court

Had George Floyd’s killer and his four accomplices been civilians, they would’ve all been arrested on the spot and probably charged by the next day.

Regards,

Dan
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