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The autocracy. Police under this administration have completely checked out. It’s up to the feds and we’ve seen from Brown how they handle things.

In the US at least, duty to protect and serve is just a marketing slogan.

There are multiple court cases decisions showing that police have no duty to protect people. All the way up to the Supreme Court

"Protect and Serve" (the State)

(the status quo)

Accurate. Systemic perturbations are typically bad for most "old money".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

> Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the public duty doctrine.

Why are you making this political; besides one of the brown victims was the vp of the college republicans so whats the angle here again?