The praetor using the lictor weren’t just any nearby citizen.

Yet their legal mandate for law enforcement was no greater than any nearby citizen. Because that's not how Roman law fucking worked. I'm sorry that you can't comprehend any legal system which doesn't work like the ones you're familiar with.

Ignoring the use of the lictor and focusing on the lictor as though independent just doesn’t mean they weren’t fulfilling a law enforcement role, which included legitimized violence by state authority.

I already addressed how idiotic this argument is in this vey conversation. Since your literacy is as limited as ever, let me repeat myself:

Only insofar as state sanctioned violence is here defined as “any violence acknowledged as legitimate by the state”, which would make every use of self-defense in a modern context also state-sanctioned violence.

The point that the use of ‘cop’ was too narrow or obscure to fit a meme is certainly not an invitation to unnecessarily and pedantically widen the definition as though to clarify a pretty basic point, nor to perpetuate useless argument.

I'm sorry you're upset at yourself over being unable to come up with a consistent definition of 'cop' which covers the people you want it to, without covering people you don't want it to,