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by pocksuppet 28 days ago
> Murder is a capital crime regardless of who you work for.

Not true btw, the military can do it.

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Not as part of a domestic police action (Posse Comitatus), and under the constraint of at least directing it against enemy combatants & regulars (conventions of international warfare). Now, if either of those two are violated the calculus changes, and I leave it as an exercise to the student to decide which side one's sympathies should lay with. I damn well know where my lines are drawn.
Homicide is not always murder, but what we saw in Minnesota was murder by any definition.