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Was it justified that the father in Ohio ran over a cop after his son got shot? (ponder.cat)
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Story about the killing: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-deputy-fatally-struck-man-son-shot-police/story?id=121438975

Breakdown of bodycam video: https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/05/04/body-cam-review-ryan-hinton-fatal-cincinnati-police-shooting-2025/83443906007/

I don't think the chief's identification of the "gun" in the freeze frame is really beyond a reasonable doubt. I'd be fine with it if we could see the bodycam after the shooting, showing the cop going up to the kid and the gun next to him. Since if he was holding it while running, where else would it be other than roughly in the same place as that random patch of pixels?

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[โ€“] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Harming people is bad, even the guilty. So there needs to be enough good to offset this.

The good is that you are stopping these people from hurting other innocents. This is not exactly the case here, because the killed cop was not at all connected to the earlier murder, I agree. But from a system point of view, protesting police brutality and police violence even with violet means is justifiable if that will prevent greater suffering caused by the police, no?

[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you could prove that, then yes. I don't really see how this event will lead to less police brutality though. Only an organized political movement could achieve that. With this action, another cop will be hired to replace the one killed and the system will go on unchanged.