Fuck you in the arse and the eye
Why is shooting an on-duty police officer considered 67% worse (35 years’ minimum sentence) than stabbing an unarmed lawyer (21 years’ minimum)?
I hope it’s to do with the use of guns, the extent of previous convictions and the defendants’ lack of mitigating personal factors, rather than any kind of bizarre fetishisation of the police as better than the rest of us…
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Glorifying terrorists, tolerating intolerance, and making excuses for the inexcusable.
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January 10th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I think the idea is that the police have to be prepared to put themselves at the risk of being murdered, whereas normal people don’t. So they need the protection.