How afraid are people that they acquit this sort of behavior?

Link: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/jury-finds-mounties-accused-of-manslaughter-in-2018-shooting-death-not-guilty

To summarize: RCMP wake man sleeping in vehicle. Man is startled. Man is shot 10 times and dies. 

The rest does not matter - that they'd had a "call about a suspicious vehicle" is a pretext. And sleeping in your vehicle is not a crime (I know. I spend over half the year in mine). 

While I know he was a not entirely a good guy (who is?) this in no ways justifies the excessive "cowboy" approach of the RCMP. And - be real - it's pretty much guaranteed that if the cops shoot you they will stop at nothing to discredit or malign your character, making YOU the threat. 

In any event, if you have a score you need settled, a wife you need offed, a drug debt you can't pay, join the Police force/RCMP. There, it's all in a days work.

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