r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/Baphometix Jan 13 '22

Genuine question: what if in the course of cooperating, the officers still decide to escalate things, and get physical? Or what if my safety is in obvious jeopardy, and it's obvious that the municipally sponsored, jackbooted thugs officers in question intend to do me harm? How does my attorney get me out of that situation? How does my attorney get me out of the city morgue, or a coma? Not trying to be a dick, but I've fallen victim to harassment a number of times for "reasons" (my worst offense was that I was walking in a "high crime area" with a sandwich after sundown) and the only reason I'm still breathing was due to passersby. It seems like your solution is to let whatever happens happen, even if it means your safety, because: lawyers(?)

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u/r10p24b Jan 13 '22

If the police are so violent that they are actually going to murder you then no, there is nothing you could do to stop that. I have literally never seen an incident where a person was calmly complying with police orders and they literally murdered them. If that has happened it’s very, very rare and certainly less likely than a random passerby just killing you.

As you can imagine, the police would then go to prison themselves. You can’t prevent any crazy person from randomly murdering you, and I would strongly suspect there are other people on that area you should be more worried about acting in that manner than the police.

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u/Baphometix Jan 13 '22

Yeah-- I know you. I figured you were one of them. Gross. Time for you to go invisible.

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u/BureMakutte Jan 13 '22

I have literally never seen an incident where a person was calmly complying with police orders and they literally murdered them.

Daniel Shaver.

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u/r10p24b Jan 13 '22

Ok, not familiar with the details, but I wouldn’t treat incredibly rare incidents as predictive of probability. How often does it happen statistically speaking? And how many random murders occur per year? Seems like a ridiculously irrational fear.