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[greenstorm]

I can't adequately describe my astonishment that folks take seem to care about these two people killed in Minnesota. So many people have been killed, especially recently. I assumed folks always just find a reason to other then, and go about their day with maybe a couple angry words.

Relatedly but not exclusively, it's always so telling when people are trying to describe why someone shouldn't have been killed. They were kind. They helped their community. They had family who loved them and are made sad by the killing.

Certainly that makes more personal tragedy for the folks left behind. And it makes me feel very, very old fashioned for believing no one should be killed at all.

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[graydon2]

agreed, it's very strange. it's like people have been buying the excuses cops make all these years?

I think part of the difference is having a clear visual record of the events, and the utterly casual nature of the killings. like these were not just not people who didn't have to die, but also clearly situations in which nobody had to be at risk of death at all.

but again: surely that's also true of 99% of the killings without clear visual records over the years. but maybe the visual records make the point indisputable?