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Police could use non-lethal weapons first, tear gas or non-lethal bullets. Why to directly kill? 

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCgMxx50qs

But, such a war really needs to begin. Now!

I'm not suggesting that everyone start sniping cops from rooftops. Keep your jimmies unrustled. I'm saying there needs to be a war of education aimed at the absurd beliefs which give cops their power and support. That support may be vulnerable, due to the constant efforts of the police to confirm my suspicions as to their lack of ethics and their true nature. There's no better time than the present to start chipping away at the false legitimacy your neighbors have erected around the police.

There also needs to be a widespread call to "reform" the police to make it too dangerous for them to keep being the occupying army of domestic enemies they have become—if they were ever anything other.

L. Neil's suggestions are a good place to start striking at the delusion that cops are above consequences, being a class unto themselves. It needs to become dangerous for them to violate life, liberty, and property. Yes, police would be crippled. If you believe that would be a bad thing, you haven't been paying attention.

Beyond that, and to keep a new threat of this nature from arising yet again, people need to be educated out of their belief in "authority" -- and laughed at endlessly if they refuse to learn better.

There is a truth about the police that your neighbors will think you are rude to point out. Do it anyway.