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News Clip: Duterte's M16 Justification for Police Killings
from No Friends of Anyone · #29
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2 minNews
Another Duterte news clip has him justifying police shootings of drug suspects by pointing to superior police firepower (M16s vs handguns), which Tim and Ray mock as childlike logic.
- 41:05Tim begins to unpack the structure of Duterte's argument about police killings.
- 41:17Tim notes something interesting Duterte says about the nature of when a cop shoots an innocent person.
- 41:57Duterte's core justification: police have M16s while gangsters only have pistols, so when shooting happens, the M16 does the talking.
- 42:23Tim mimics Duterte's response to the question about killed children: just the sound of an M16 firing.
- 42:43Tim observes that what's amazing about Duterte is his infantile, childlike logic.