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Uniquely American lesson.


Would calling an ambulance changed anything in this case?


In the United States. Elsewhere, police forces are more likely to help than kill you.


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In addition to the sister comment correction, being killed isn't the only bad outcome. What about being arrested and charged, or your property damaged or confiscated.

Edit: Sorry just realised we are in a "kill" subthread.


Police kill about a thousand people per year in the US. Lightning kills about 20.

You’re about 100 times more likely to be killed by the police living in the US than the EU.

The statistics aren’t kind to your argument.




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