I certainly don’t feel like all cops are bad unless they let people die. I don’t know how you got that interpretation. I said the cops didn’t do their job and deserved a harsher penalty for failing to do so. I meant that not just for the two cops in the story, but for all their peers to witness the consequences of dereliction of duty too.

I also said this young man didn’t die due to the cops’ negligence, but to his own poor choices. He knew that medication was important and didn’t bring it. He knew sickle cell anemia weakened his organs. And he knew that his choices that night weren’t good for his body, especially with his condition. He chose to do all the things he did anyways, and he paid the ultimate price. Is this sad, yes. Is this preventable, also yes. Did he make the choices he needed to make to ensure his safety? No. He was found motionless less than an hour after being detained, and pronounced dead less than an hour after that. He was more than two hours away from home and his meds.

I see this as being not much different than lathering one’s self up in blood and taking a walk through the savannah. Sure there’s a chance you’ll make it out the other end ok, but most times not. Is it the lions fault that person died, or is it their own fault for not heeding warnings and making unsafe choices?

We all know what our system is. We need to keep that in mind if we do things that risk running afoul of it (And no, I don’t like our system much either, hence the acab statement). If we fail to heed the warnings of our family, friends, doctors and news outlets, well then we shouldn’t be so surprised when Darwinism happens.