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Pigs let children just died, they literally could have saved them if they wanted. (hexbear.net)
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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doj-report-failures-uvalde-police-rcna134344

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure there's codified legal precedent that the USA Police have no responsibility to put their lives in danger to protect civilians.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

CW Violence:

Lozito v. New York City

In the spring of 2012, Joseph Lozito, who was brutally stabbed and "grievously wounded, deeply slashed around the head and neck", sued police for negligence in failing to render assistance to him as he was being attacked by Gelman.[20][21][22] Lozito told reporters that he decided to file the lawsuit after allegedly learning from "a grand-jury member" that NYPD officer Terrance Howell testified that he hid from Gelman before and while Lozito was being attacked because Howell thought Gelman had a gun.[23][24] In response to the suit, attorneys for the City of New York argued that police had no duty to protect Lozito[25] or any other person from Gelman.[23]

On July 25, 2013, Judge Margaret Chan dismissed Lozito's suit, stating that while Lozito's account of the attack rang true and appeared "highly credible", Chan agreed that police had "no special duty" to protect Lozito.[20][21][26]

Lozito later went on to give an account of the aftermath in an article published by Cracked.com in October 2013,[27] and again in October 2017 when he narrated a video, offering his perspective of the event and as a warning to others involved in similar situations. Lozito also shared his experience pertaining to the attack in an episode of Radiolab podcast titled "No special duty."[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

I think about shit like this every time they want to increase police budgets under the guise of “public safety”

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Lozito later went on to give an account of the aftermath in an article published by Cracked.com

Man no other outlet was willing to take his story? Geez lol

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there’s more than one Supreme Court decision that say police have no duty to protect a civilian from harm unless you’re in their custody or something (and obv that’s fudgible)

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They have the duty to allow you to be eaten alive by bedbugs

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

or boiled alive in a prison shower