Failure to obey is the ultimate crime in any authoritarian regime. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
People have generally taken sides (again) with regard to the shooting to death of that woman in Minneapolis last week – but the thing to understand is we’re all on one side now. It is the side of those who face summary execution by armed government workers if we “resist” in any way. This encompasses attempting to drive away, which is what the woman who was shot to death was trying to do.
“Conservatives” – many of whom manifest a dog-like adoration of armed government workers, which is hugely strange given they say the are leery of government – say the woman earned her death sentence because she attempted to drive away. It does not trouble them at all that the armed government worker could have – and actually did – move out of the way, thus ending any putative “threat” to his “safety.” The murdered woman bumped the AGW but he was never in any danger of being run over – and it is pretty clear the woman was not trying to run him over. If she had been, she would not have turned her wheels to the right. She would have driven straight ahead.
She just wanted to get away. For failing to obey, in other words. This is the ultimate crime in any authoritarian system, as evidenced by how severely it is punished. Videos of armed government workers tackling, beating and shooting people who aren’t criminals – in the sense that whatever they were being initially pestered over was some petty statutory “offense” that entailed no harm done to anyone – abound. Here is one. A man is ordered to get down on the ground, now – IDF tactics – and beaten, over jaywalking. But his real crime was not obeying. How about a “turn signal violation”?
Revisited a 2015 Jim Bovard about immunity for feds in killing people.
A childhood bud son of a preacher killed a fed in a drug deal and was executed.
I thought we were all equal in muh democracy?