Why suburban police, lawmakers want to make fleeing from cops a felony – Daily Herald*

“The drastic increase in fleeings we've seen in recent years is a level of lawlessness I haven't seen in my 23 years in this profession,” Naperville's police chief said at a press conference promoting legislation aimed at deterring such behavior and punishing those who commit it.
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debtsor
2 years ago

Considering police kill millions of unarmed citizens every year, innocent folks fleeing police are merely trying to save their life and don’t want to die at the hands of a systemically racist criminal justice system.

Paul Boomer
2 years ago
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Last year police killed 12,152,694 unarmed people, 99% of them were black men on their way to choir practice.

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