[DavidC]

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Well hopefully those who beat him will be put into jail as well.

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If the guy killed a cop, and the cop's still-living buddies beat the [censored] out of him, I think they should give them a [censored] medal.

We're being too much of a pansy nation, we can't even punish those that kill people with a non-fatal beating. The fucker's lucky he's even alive - if I was a cop I'd have blown his [censored] brains out if I was sure he killed my buddy.

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Amen.

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Rule of Law, my friends.

I wouldn't want to let cops decide who lives and dies. That's for the courts to decide. If he's killed / beaten during the course of his arrest (after shooting the cop), that's totally fine, but if they didn't do the arrest properly the cops should be punished.

As a young guy (23ish) that walks around quite a bit, I get pulled over by cops quite a bit, and probably 25-35% of them are very ego-driven. "Men of the chest", if you will.

That kind of personality helps a person become a cop and perform well, but it's not the personality type that I would want to have deciding the fate of men's lives.

Edit: Especially in the heat of the moment.

--Dave.