/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

>>1774
No police is civilian.
But when they have machine guns, flack jackets and helmets like in your pic, do they really count as police anymore ?
If they look like soldiers, and are armed like soldiers, they will be considered as combatants. Because you can't expect soldiers to be able to tell the difference in battle conditions.

>>1775
yeah this seems correct. RoE would never allow soldiers to just walk into an ambush for example

Journalists should be considered combatants and legitimate targets in war.

>>1774
For the purposes of the Geneva Convention police count as noncombatants as long as they're not, you know, being combatants.

>>1792
Journalists should be shot on sight, war or not.

>>1814
No, that's another meme. This one is called the soyjak.

>>1774
Under international law, any combatant can be engaged as an enemy. If police fight in a war, they can be shot. However you can't just go around massacring cops if they aren't fighting.
>>1775
That's not true. Police in most countries are legally civilians. In common law states, the power of arrest comes from the ancient right to bring an accused criminal before a court. In the US, cops are basically just a privileged class of civilians who get access to cool guns and the ability to get away with murder.