[scarface74]

Same thing, the NYPD killed a man for selling a cigarettes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eric-garner-dies...

[hardwaresofton]

Again I fully agree on the broad points but felt a little bit like shoehorning an only slightly related topic in.

But meh, awareness of those topics could probably stand to be higher anyway

[dsfyu404ed]

They killed him for daring to thumb his nose at the authority of the state by being a bootlegger. Cigarettes just happen to be what he sold.

At the end of the day this is the kind of random violence that backs up every mundane law.