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The new doctrine is escalation of force to compliance. I have that info from public court, on the record.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21603136

Protect and serve died decades ago.

Today, people literally die at the hands of police for errors, questions, mistakes, and failure to demonstrate blind compliance. <---that is no joke.

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I just recently saw the video of the guy picking up trash with a claw/grabber and being told to drop his 'weapon'. Several police showed up to stop this threat from cleaning his property. Luckily though, no one was shot, and the officer that started it all resigned.

I got lucky in the 90's. Ended up in holding for a few hours. Officers escalated a fairly benign scenario into me getting roughed up.

They delayed court many times, while trying to make their poor case worse.

I took it to trial, won, and those officers were gone.

Things are way worse now. Be careful.

The attorney I had filled me in. The prosecution presented escalation of force to compliance at my trial.

Not doing what they say can escalate to death. The initial event can be ANYTHING.

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