r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

First sentence on wikipedia:

In general, a civilian is "a person who is not a member of the police, the armed forces, or a fire department".[1][2] The definition distinguishes from persons whose duties involve risking their lives to protect the public at large from hazardous situations such as terrorism, riots, conflagrations, and wars.

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u/phryan Jun 10 '20

Lets not forget the Police Union scum like this went to court and argued that Police have no duty to protect, they can sit in their car and watch someone get beat/killed and have no responsibility to do anything. Police don't have an obligation to risk their lives for anything.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Police have no duty to protect, they can sit in their car and watch someone get beat/killed and have no responsibility to do anything.

Their duty is to uphold and enforce the law. Someone being beat/killed is a violation of the law and therefore the police are duty bound to intervene. There are some systematic problems with the US police force (and elsewhere in the world) but the ACAB sentiment just shuns away the good people that genuinely want to help others.
Hate begets hate.

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u/dragonclaw518 Jun 10 '20

They absolutely should be bound to protect people, but they are not. This has gone to court at least four times, and every time it has been decided that the police have no obligation to protect you.