the definition is killing your brother . Which is actually a bit odd , because I ' m not sure if , say , regicide is necessarily killing your king . regicide does mean killing the king . So that means democide means killing the citizens . Fatricide means killing the brother . killing a democracy . that would be democricide . We ' re looking at just the demo prefix . the cop thought the person was dangerous and that killing was justified in the moment , I suppose it all depends on whether the government that employs this cop gives the cop the latitude to make such killings as part of his job . The test for this would be whether a regular person could do the exact same things , yet receive a different reaction by the government . So if I a noncop did some of the killings that the BLMs people are upset about , would I be punished ? Like that guy that got chocked for selling untaxed cigarettes , would I be punished for that ? It seems likely , therefore since the cop isn ' t punished , the accountability for that death rests with the government .