joG
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Why should people believe that the justice system will protect them, if they get stopped by a cop after robbing a store and then apparently resist arrest?
That is an odd way to see it. It does not make any difference, why and under what circumstances the kid was shot. We do not know all that. But we do know that the cop that shot the kid will not stand no matter what happened. And a large number of citizens seem to believe that that would happen, if they were shot. They do not think the legal system protects them. And that is bad, because the legitimacy of nations stands and falls with the safety they provide their citizens. Without legitimacy the government can maintain order only with coercive force.