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sustainable_saltmine 222 points ago +223 / -1

so, it's totally justified to loot a random person's store because some black drug addict asshole was killed during a confrontation with police? Notice I never said "killed BY police" because in the cases of Floyd and Brooks that never happened

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Seruna_Kanus 79 points ago +79 / -0

"killed" Correct me if I'm wrong, but an OD isn't generally regarded as "killed" unless it can be determined as intentional.

Then again, in his situation and state of mind, who knows, maybe Floyd wanted to OD cause he didn't want to face justice.

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NoSteppy1776 11 points ago +11 / -0

Also known as the "Seth Rich" treatment.

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DrumpfCard 3 points ago +3 / -0

do you have evidence of this?

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lwrns 2 points ago +2 / -0

Source?

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Ched 2 points ago +2 / -0

Can you source that? Thats a new one for me

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jubyeonin 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not necessarily. "Killed" takes an agent argument, meaning that something or someone was the cause of the death. In the case of an OD, you can say the drugs killed, the person who made the drugs killed, the person who sold the drugs killed, etc.

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Grunge 1 point ago +1 / -0

The police did contribute to his death, at no fault of their own. They could have possibly done something to save him maybe if they magically knew everything... but they did contribute to Floyd's death.

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Equinoxcat14 1 point ago +1 / -0

I agree, until the jury decides the officers fate I believe that Flyod played just as much of a role in his own death if not more than the cop did. Could be completely ruled due to the overdose too. Then again the cop might be guilty of excessive force but proving more than that in a court of law, with that video, and those toxicology/health reports.... Good luck.

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plaaaa 13 points ago +13 / -0

The store will magically keep replenishing with free merchandise, duh.

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augustinius 9 points ago +9 / -0

Looters probably think that since they’ve all played video games but none of them have read a book.

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Grunge 3 points ago +3 / -0

My favorite agrument is when they just claim "You have insurance, your not losing anything." or "It's just stuff."

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TheNewRepublic 5 points ago +5 / -0

There’s no private property in communism.

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Hattmall 4 points ago +4 / -0

in the cases of Floyd and Brooks that never happened

Rayshard Brooks? He definitely got killed BY police. Unless you are being extremely literal in which case he was killed by the bullets from a police gun.

Not that he wasn't engaging in an activity that a reasonable person would assume might result in getting shot by the police or anything, but he definitely was killed by the cops.

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