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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I agree with this, but I don't think the informant's role is irrelevant. If it weren't for the informant, there might not have been any roles at all. The cops wanted a gang member, and this guy has guns. They use a supposedly reliable informant to find out where he is, but it doesn't work out and there's a fuck up. Why is the informant's role suddenly irrelevant? Are you suggesting they leave this out of their investigation?
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I see what you're saying. Maybe irrelevant is a bad word. While the informant most definitely had some direct causal effect on the mistake made by the cops (at least that's what the police are claiming), i think that ultimately the responsibility falls directly on the police.