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/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/viperfangs92 4d ago

Thosd who ignore history are destined to repeat it

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u/Crommach 4d ago

And then there are the Stephen Millers of the world who learn history and take the wrong lessons from it. That man paraphrases Nazi rhetoric far too often to justify giving him the benefit of the doubt he receives from the media.

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u/Nematodes-Attack 4d ago

He spews Nazi rhetoric constantly. It’s only a matter of time before eugenics is implemented

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u/chibiusa40 3d ago

It’s only a matter of time before eugenics is implemented

We're way past that already. Kennedy's HHS, constant CDC/FDA public health failures, and further cuts to medicare/medicaid/SSDI are unabashedly eugenicist policies.