Violations were not brushed aside. Soldiers are criminally accountable when we break the law. That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.
Bullshit! Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 people at My Lai, and he served 3 years. Nobody else was even charged with the 200-500 people who were massacred (and raped).
That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.
Also not true. The Nisour Square massacre saw 4 Blackwater employees convicted of murder, manslaughter, and guns charges only to be pardoned by Trump.
Just this year, the Trump regime reinstated the Congressional Medal of Honor awards to the solders who perpetrated the massacre at Wounded Knee.
The United States has a terrible record of holding soldiers to account for war crimes.
It was cherry picking, but you had to add Trump. C’mon, man. This is some next-level bending of bad examples to fit a narrative if you have to drop Trump’s government in there as an example of anything for comparison against the before times.
They’re ontologically Evil?
If the Minneapolis Police Department didn’t kill anyone in a year of active policing, and my combat unit didn’t kill anyone in over a year of war, Minnesotans — and all Americans — are right to ask why ICE and the Border Patrol have killed two people in my state in two weeks.
That’s like 1000% more killing.
To get the percentage you divide the new events, 2, by the previous number of events, 0…
Rates can be less than 1. So you’d take the number of people killed by minneapolis police in, say, a decade and then divide by 10.
So 52/x (we’ll say 0.5 just to estimate) would give you 104* more killing. (Or 10,000%)
Which is a lot, yes, but not infinite.
Thank you for the accuracy.
1 thing and it can’t be in the headline? Eat a dick, huffpost
Poor headlines notwithstanding, I’m glad HuffPost is opening their op-ed page to center Minnesotan voices like this.
I think another thing to note is that they don’t receive nearly the same level of training as a soldier.
The first murderer worked with ice for 10 years and the next one worked with ice for 8. training isn’t the problem
The amount of time working does not equate at all to being trained properly. It actually makes it worse. 10 fucking years without being trained or learning.
And let’s face it, they have been given carte blanche to kill
Only 1 lol
