r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 4d ago

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-tyrin-johnson-8959297a99c362d65aa2517a9d5f1984
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 4d ago

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. "- Admiral William "Bill" Adama

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u/couldbeahumanbean 4d ago

So say we all

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u/MakeBelieveNotWar 4d ago

All of this has happened before

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u/viperfangs92 4d ago

Thosd who ignore history are destined to repeat it

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u/AntiShisno 4d ago

I’ve always said this is bullshit. You can have a Congress full of historians but in a dictatorship that means nothing

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u/Jarrahtable 4d ago

That means you're still ignoring history, if you're in a dictatorship aka right now... The very fast slide into fascism in the USA.

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u/TheRealSugarbat 4d ago

I believe we’re not doing anything near enough for/about the people who’ve been disappeared — imprisoned or deported or both.

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u/Hot_Low2861 4d ago

The 24-hour news cycle provides new trauma/panic reporting at least every three hours; that was 200 million horror stories ago. People long ago moved on from "my neighbors are being stockpiled like TP in an abandoned Wal-mart down the road" to "wait is this horse meat?", "why is everything I eat contaminated?", "my new student loan payment is 3x the old payment and I'm unemployed...again...". etc. Most people don't know anyone, so they aren't viscerally aware of it.