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-Includes the role the lictors played for the praetor.
Which is the role of any nearby citizen.
So, if you're done dodging the question, I ask again: your definition of police, in this context, is anyone symbolically associated with the use of violence legitimized by the standards of the polity, even without any attendant legal power?
The praetor using the lictor weren't just any nearby citizen. 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.
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.
Be thankful you're not a woman or Puggy would hate you more. Not sure if he hates women or leftists more.
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