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Furthermore, if a member of law enforcement violates your liberty through imprisonment or personal injury -- and you are found not guilty through the judicial process -- then that police officer should be tried for false imprisonment and battery.

Simply because someone wears the costume of the state does not mean they should be above the law that governs everyone else. The monopoly on force granted to law enforcement has created a toxic set of incentives. We are seeing ramifications of those incentives in the news every week.




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