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Originally Posted by simplepeddler
Freddie ran from the at very corner he had been arrested many times for selling narcotics.....unprovoked flight is the terminology used ........cops are taught to give chase to unprovoked flight .........now that we learn they new him.........it starts to make some sense
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And how often do you suppose that government employees admit that they provoked a citizen to flee?
If these government employees knew Freddie, then Freddie also knew these government employees. I wonder if Freddie may have reasonably expected (based on past experience) the kinds of mistreatment he ended up receiving?
In this case, he was arrested and falsely imprisoned for a knife that was perfectly legal. How many of his past encounters involved government employees making false claims in order to take him into custody?
In this case, the police failed to follow procedures in how he was transported, and this failure may have cost Freddie his life. In how many past encounters did the police fail to follow proper procedures?
Do you really think this was the first time these government employees failed to follow procedures or exaggerated a legal item or action to take someone into custody on a false pretense? Then how can you claim Freddie was unprovoked in wanting to put some distance between himself and the abusive government employees?
Is "remain still and take it" the only proper response to government abuse of power? Certainly, no one in their right mind advocates the use of force against police, even abusive police. But having firmly decided that the use of force against police is wholly unwise and unreasonable, is gaining some distance and hoping to avoid being abused never a good response? Gaining distance is certainly better than the use of force.