alt Hacker NewsOnly because the people don't fight back. If they know that folks would fight back, they would behave themselves in the most polite and proper ways you won't believe.
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mothballed • yesterday at 10:44 PM
It's rarely acknowledged but a big reason why ATF and FBI toned things down after Waco is because McVeigh (he was there watching) directly retaliated causing nearly 1000 casualties of government employees. At that point they went to the current plan of just divide and conquer a single person at a time via surveillance of the targeted group after things quiet down rather than try to take on groups head on.
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jimbob45 • today at 12:30 AM
Haha have you never watched COPS? I’ve seen tamer UFC fights than some COPS episodes.
Is this supposed to be sarcasm? As far as I know, America is the only nominally democratic country where cops routinely shoot people, and their number one excuse is that they thought they could be shot.
Nothing makes cops more trigger-itchy than the thought that a random stranger could "fight back" any moment.