Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Fucking bastards.
Yes, and now that we are open for business,anyone can buy in.Don't care who you are as long as you can pay.What we got tomorrow?
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Key must act to avoid this setting a shocking precedent.
Shame then, he thinks its ok which he just stated on the telly.
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How long do you think they had?!?!
Ok, I'll go away, you are scaring me now. ;)
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Matthew, I don't do group hugs or camp fires or singing.Try again :)
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Taser is electrocuting. don't see that as between.
What did you want the police to do,
How about get the neighbours watching away ,stand back from the tantrum and wait for back up to reassess?Check out if there is any history, find if mental health issues and if professional in that area are available,have a cop (maybe a detective detecting)checking if next of kin can be located for info? Try at least to help the guy.If he was a harm to himself I would accept suicide, that is understandable but if the cops are trying to protect him against himself then shooting doesn't help anyone, including the cop who shot.I am just speculating.still think we can do better.If not I will then ask,if holding a hammer is deemed a weapon, can the police come around to our house and check out the 2 guys next door,I'd like to know what they are gonna do to all the banging going on over there? All I can hear is smashing and banging, and they used to be such nice neighbours. ;)
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You spend a lot of time running around the neighbourhood getting your Jack Sparrow on? :)
Well it just seems violence is every bloody where and cops wanna electrocute or shoot and there isn't any between.There are lots of reasons for the public going off on a tangent and drugs legal or illegal are proving to be just one example. We hear often that the person was really placid, the nice guy next door, and our solution is fast becoming shoot to kill (in the chest is kill) or electrocute.It is really sad and watching Parliament TV is just depressing but I digress. Innit great we're gonna build more prisons cos when Mokaraka gets out of hospital, he can go to one. Nevermind, as you were.
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Can anyone advise what the police did before guns for all the thugs with the knives and meat cleavers?
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I am just confused about how one might attack with two knives and a meat cleaver if one did not have, say, an extra robotic limb.
And that was where I was at also. However ;) as mentioned above, it is not too common for the cops to kill but it is becoming more common. Violence is a societal problem that all we NZers have.
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With Mokaraka, he presented a threat to life. The use of lethal force is entirely justified. An ordinary person, faced with someone waving knives and a meat cleaver, would very likely consider their life to be in imminent danger.
And, if said ordinary person shot the person.....oh that's right.....I am with Danielle, how many hands did the guy have?
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he said that the very existence of the defence of provocation says that society considers violence, in certain circumstances, to be a reasonable response. After all, it is how a "reasonable" person would respond, is it not?
Off slightly but relevant, the police seem to think so.I'd hate for my child to have a tantrum in the wrong place.Anything can now be considered a weapon.One man and a meat cleaver, bunch of cops, just aim and shoot. Sorted.But, but, he had a knife.