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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
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Wrong country. We don't do that up here. Overall, we find this results in fewer unnecessarily dead people.
Let's say he'd had a gun, and used it against the police. He would just have gotten hit with an additional charge that could have been anything from resisting arrest to first-degree murder, depending on how good a shot he was. So he'd still be in prison even after being proven innocent of the original charge. Real smart.
i believe the implication is that when injustice is commonly met with this response, those seeking to exert force upon others do their due diligence
versus the “only the state can do violence and we never make mistakes hurr hurr” that (ahem) they really want the global population to internalize
How's that working out for no-knock warrants in the USA?
i don’t know - have you read anything interesting lately?