Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.

But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.

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    The one part I as a non-American don’t understand about this is: Is America not supposed to be a free country? Why the hell do you have people who can kill anyone with no repercussions? What the hell happened to the rule of law? And, more importantly, why the actual fuck is the whole country not up in arms over this?

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      We were never a free country in any sense like you’re describing. That’d just our own internal propaganda.

      I agree with your last statement. There are countless reasons I can’t understand why people aren’t burning this country to the ground. Especially those further in poverty and struggling to just get by.

      I still am shocked Occupy Wall Street wasn’t more violent. It probably needed to be.

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        The reason we haven’t burt it down is because the ones in power are really good at making the ignorant masses hate each other. Even during covid people were pissed off that unemployed people were getting a little extra help, when business owners were raking in PPE loans. Instead of focusing that anger where it really belongs. Half the country hates minorities and trans people, the other half hate maga. When instead, we should all be focusing on the bezos and musks and guillotines.

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      Man, RATM had it figured out in 1992. 😬

      Now I got no patience

      So sick of complacence

      With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E

      Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane

      The finger to the land of the chains

      What? The “land of the free”?

      Whoever told you that is your enemy

      I wish it hadn’t taken 30 more years before I realized how right they were.

      Brother Ali says it even better:

      They keep sayin’ we’re free

      But we’re all just loose