CASUAL KILLING ACT 1669. "Stop Resisting!"
“And if any slave resist his master, or owner, or other person, by his or her order, correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction, it shall not be accounted felony; but the master, owner, and every such other person so giving correction, shall be free and acquit of all punishment and accusation for the same, as if such accident had never happened. And also, if any negro, mulatto, or Indian, bond or free, shall at any time, lift his or her hand, in opposition against any Christian, not being negro, mulatto, or Indian, he or she so offending, shall, for every such offence, proved by the oath of the party, receive on his or her bare back, thirty lashes, well laid on; cognizable by a justice of the peace for that county wherein such offence shall be committed.” — The Casual Killing Act of 1669
If you grasp that modern police forces are the byproduct of slave patrols, it shouldn’t be that hard to conceive that some of the laws protecting officers and ordinary citizens in America originated during slave times. It has mostly been illegal to kill enslaved people, but in practice it was okay. Black people couldn’t testify in court proceedings, they couldn’t act as jurors, and no case could be brought unless sponsored by a white person. It wasn’t legal to just kill Black people, but it was okay. So when the police tell you to "stop resisting," and you somehow end up dead. Then it's a justified police killing aka "qualified immunity."' 🙄
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