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EX500rider

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6. "They also shoot when they simply allege someone reached for a gun"

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 9, 2018, 07:48 PM

Jan 2018

And which happens more often?

Of the 1,000 or so civilians shot by officers last year only 68 were unarmed. And even some of those could be justifiable shoots if they tried to wrestle away the officers gun.

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