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There was a highly publicized case a few years back where the police entered a hospital and ordered a nurse to draw a blood sample for an unconscious patient who had been in a car accident. They had no warrant and she refused per hospital policy (and law). The cops roughed her up pretty bad and arrested her.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/01/561337106...

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Also good to point out that the reason they -rushed- to the hospital to do this was that the person who had hit them was an off-duty cop who was drunk and had run a red light, and they were looking for something, anything, to pin on this guy instead as being responsible, rather than the cop.

Said unconscious patient later died, if I recall correctly, too.

Abuse of state power is the one thing I think we should keep the death penalty for. Police who use their power like that should hang.

You think we should combat abuse of state power…with a power that is really easy for the state to abuse?

It would only apply to agents of the state. Live by the sword and all that.

so now the people wielding all the power are risking death? sounds like an even more powerful incentive to cover stuff up extra hard and shoot all witnesses, etc.

This sounds a little "reductio ad absurdum" - "we can't stop anyone from doing anything".

"You come at the king, you'd best not miss" and all.

Take that to the next level. What are you worried about, and how would you combat it?

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