Where are these responsibilities and when did anyone sign up to them?
You don't "sign up" for responsibilities. They attach automatically when you live under a legal system.
And pretending this is about taxes or sidewalk snow is a dodge. Those obligations don't end with armed officers on the scene. What we're talking about is how people behave during real encounters with law enforcement - where insisting the rules are "abstract" is a great way to learn they are not.
Yes, but do you think most people understand that the other side of the equation could be: "You will be shot like a dog"?
Most adults in a city like Minneapolis don't need a law degree to know that law enforcement officers carry guns and are authorized to use force - you see it on the streets, in the news, and in virtually every officer-involved shooting video that goes viral. You can be certain that if they were being victimized by violent crime, they wouldn't hesitate to call the police precisely because of officers' ability to use deadly force.
And let's be brutally honest: Minneapolis still remembers the George Floyd riots and the whole 'defund the police for using deadly force' tantrums.
The only ones in utter disbelief are the cozy, self-important white middle-class leftists - yes, that very much includes the self-described 'wife, mother, and poet' Renee Good and the dedicated gun-toting ICU nurse Alex Pretti - who apparently thought the rules, laws, and brutal realities of law enforcement magically exempt woke people like themselves.
'Polish' American, Anthony Kazmierczak. What is it about 'Polish' Americans and being insane criminals?
Wow, how predictable! On every other thread, Polish-Americans are just "Americans" - no heritage, no culture, no ties. They're completely erased, reduced to nothing. But the moment one of them is accused of something, suddenly they're "Polish" again, as if that explains everything - except, of course, when it conveniently doesn't.
And let's not pretend you don't have a classic double standard: Jews, including Jewish-Americans,' successes are flaunted as proof of their identity, but if one of them commits a crime? Well, they're just "white" or their identity isn't mentioned at all. Hypocrisy much? It's laughable how you cherry-pick your stereotypes to fit your narrative. Why don't you just admit you're here only to smear and divide - because clearly, you've got nothing better to do but sit all day in your squalid British bedsit?
One of the requirements of having my job is getting a certificate from the National Criminal Register every three years
Oh, so you boast about your "National Criminal Register" certificate? How quaint. In the UK, sex offenders must register and follow strict restrictions too - fail to do so, and they face serious jail time. Same in Europe, where they're legally obliged to update their info regularly.
But at least your "compliant," huh?
I'll leave that right there.