If I kill a cop it will be because “I feared for my life”:

Or, more likely, because I wanted to get out of a traffic ticket. You know, the usual reason.

If I kill a cop, I will not be arrested. Instead the mayor and responsible faith leaders will urge calm to “let the process work”, that process where we do not arrest suspected killers, that one. The one that has worked so well in the past.

If I kill a cop the press will never say, “Abagond killed a cop” or anything close to that. They will leave my name out of it and create as much distance as possible between me and the crime, saying a police officer died from injuries sustained during a citizen involved shooting. Passive voice all the way.

If I kill a cop I will lie and the press will take my lies seriously, like they are six-year-olds. Even if I have to change my lies. It will not cross their minds that as the killer I have every reason to lie.

If I kill a cop the press will dutifully report that the police officer was “no angel”. They will demonize him, not me, the killer. They will report every damaging fact and false accusation about him that they can find from the past 15 years. At least. And if they cannot demonize him directly, they will demonize his family. And all of this will be used to excuse my actions even though I knew none of it since I lack the resources of a city newspaper.

If I kill a cop my employer will give me paid leave of up to one year and my union will pay any court costs. And, depending on press coverage, people on the Internet will give me up to hundreds of thousands of dollars at GoFundMe to help pay for my already-paid-for court costs.

If I kill a cop my friends will carry out a “thorough” investigation. Only after they have gathered all the facts, and maybe destroyed some, will they then interview me so that my lies can fit the facts.

If I kill a cop the grand jury will hear only my side of the story. And it will be done in secret. They will see no evil unless there is damning citizen video or riots that make their city look bad.

If I kill a cop and if it goes to trial, on that off (2%) chance, the jury will be packed with people who will favour me over the cop. And even if it is packed with the sons and daughters of murdered police officers, even then they will have to let me off because I will use their magic words against them: “I feared for my life.”

– Abagond, 2017.

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