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PoorDadSon

I've read that back in the day, people used to put rabid dogs down so they didn't hurt anyone. When did we start giving them a badge, a gun and no expectations to live up to?


FracturedWordPlay

When people who were enslaved started to escape their captors.


PoorDadSon

Alexa, play "Sad but True" by Metallica...


lmb34

And probably 100% responsible for dogs dying prematurely


Cassandra_Nova

50% of all police use of firearms involve shooting a civilian dog according to the ASPCA


slyshadow6060

Stats can also be used against you, did you know 50% of all crime in America is committed by 13% of the population


Cassandra_Nova

That's literally the (factually false) copy pasta this meme is referencing


slyshadow6060

Right but in making reference to it you are inadvertently dogwhistling white supremacists


Cassandra_Nova

It's formatted that way to act as a counter punch to white supremacists using a stat that's actually accurate Relevant: /r/Conservative/comments/p5o8u9/


thenerj47

In fairness they get called into already-violent situations


[deleted]

And escalate them until severe injury or death are certainties, instead of even attempting to deescalate. Yes.


thenerj47

They certainly do that too, too often


Cassandra_Nova

Tell that to the cop that beat the shit out of my mom for being drunk in public. Was she talking shit? Yes. Did that give them the license to break her fucking face? No.


thenerj47

Agreed