<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr">On Jun 1, 2020, at 6:26 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 9:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><i style="">Perhaps it is the governor’s fault for failing to temporarily ban murderous riots.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">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.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The whole legal system works to dampen disincentives for police violence:</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A few years old, but basically still true: https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938234/police-shootings-killings-prosecutions-court</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>