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Idiocracy

https://twitter.com/seywarddarby/status/1268183539633266689

For all of the "just a few bad apples" talk, I'd really love to see some prominent police voices speaking up right now about some of these excesses. It's not enough just to personally be good, you have to be willing to speak against the people bringing dishonor to your profession and poisoning the relationship between young people and the law.
 
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267676701607071745
Actions speak louder than words. Here's someone who was singled out from her group, obliging the arrest initially but then flinches when the arresting officer gropes her (accidentally or otherwise, see his right hand).

Quick acting point blank pellet fire and several uncontested batonings later, the clear and present danger to these armed and ready officers is quelled. No fatalities, hurray. So brave and courageous they are for putting their lives on the line to stop these hooligans from... standing at a street corner.
 
https://twitter.com/Ad_Inifinitum/status/1267924706461732864
https://twitter.com/liveinochi/status/1267504585926557696
https://twitter.com/literate_coyote/status/1267848082617708545
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1267122343454953472
 
https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1268266210954752002

I'm not posting all these instances of police using excessive force just to say "all cops are shit" or something like that. I'm doing it in response to a comment posted earlier that suggested that there are two separate groups heading into these protests right now: peaceful protesters and "looters and thugs". And that these protests are turning violent because of the actions of the second group. While I'm sure there have been a handful of situations where that might have been true it completely ignores the very significant role the police have played in peaceful protests turning into riots.

We can't pretend that police all over the U.S. haven't been taking a confrontational and forceful approach to these protests even when they've been nothing but peaceful. Gassing peaceful protesters isn't right. Shooting "non-lethal" projectiles directly at the heads of peaceful protesters isn't right. I consider myself a pretty calm person, but when I get slashed in ball hockey I get pissed. I can't even imagine how I would react if I was exercising my right to peacefully protest and something like in the above videos happened to me or I watched it happen to one of my friends.

Frycer completely nailed it when he said if police had an "emphasis on de-escalation instead of confrontation" things would be pretty different right now. If someone wants to say that the destruction of property and things of that nature aren't the right way to protest that's fine, just don't ignore the direct role policing often plays in things reaching that point.
 
i.e. not this:
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268043104822665218
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268195207713038336
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/everything-we-know-about-the-teenager-officers-shot-in-the-head-with-less-lethal-round-at-austin-protest/

Some of the in-your-face bully tactics (pulling down masks and pepper spraying), I kind of get (if I put myself in the shoes of a 'roided up butthole who peaked in middle school) -- mob-mentality, rising tensions, either scared or psyched for stuff to go down and someone says something unkind about you and your profession and your 'brothers'. This, though, this is a different level of egregious. This is intentionally malicious, basically hunting humans for sport, but feels 'guilt-free' because it's a sub-lethal round (that was never intended for crowd control or headshots).

Don't tell me this is just one bad egg in the tray. You know your co-workers, supervisors know who is good for what and who is maybe a risk to the public. They chose to assign this maniac a long-range weapon instead of a desk job.
 
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1268622750463062017

Name a more thankless, soul-crushing job than transcribing this guy
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-evokes-george-floyd-in-celebration-of-jobs-report_n_5eda5407c5b68176616496aa?ri18n=true

Just when you thought it couldn't be possible to sink any lower or be any more shameless, he does it. Absolutely despicable.
 
Frycer14 said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-evokes-george-floyd-in-celebration-of-jobs-report_n_5eda5407c5b68176616496aa?ri18n=true

Just when you thought it couldn't be possible to sink any lower or be any more shameless, he does it. Absolutely despicable.
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Trump is a meathead. 
 
https://twitter.com/Ali_IngNews/status/1268979789488173058

They're protesting a couple of cops getting in trouble for pushing over a 75 year old man. He's in serious but stable condition after his head smashed into the ground. The video of the incident shows him bleeding from his ears as he lays motionless on the ground.

Also, I've read the phrase "simply executing orders" somewhere in history class once before...
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Also, I've read the phrase "simply executing orders" somewhere in history class once before...
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Ugh. Yeah. Also, any good cop/soldier/whatever will tell you they have a duty to not follow illegal or unconstitutional orders. Any order that requires directly assaulting innocent civilians should not be followed.
 
Bender said:
Frycer14 said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-evokes-george-floyd-in-celebration-of-jobs-report_n_5eda5407c5b68176616496aa?ri18n=true

Just when you thought it couldn't be possible to sink any lower or be any more shameless, he does it. Absolutely despicable.
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Trump is a meathead.
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Trump is lowering the bar so much, that they will be doing the limbo underground.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/Ali_IngNews/status/1268979789488173058

They're protesting a couple of cops getting in trouble for pushing over a 75 year old man. He's in serious but stable condition after his head smashed into the ground. The video of the incident shows him bleeding from his ears as he lays motionless on the ground.

Also, I've read the phrase "simply executing orders" somewhere in history class once before...
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Why does it matter that he was 75?
 
Important to note they didn't resign from the police, just that particular unit. So they decided they wouldn't do their assigned jobs but still expect to be paid.
 
TML fan said:
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/Ali_IngNews/status/1268979789488173058

They're protesting a couple of cops getting in trouble for pushing over a 75 year old man. He's in serious but stable condition after his head smashed into the ground. The video of the incident shows him bleeding from his ears as he lays motionless on the ground.

Also, I've read the phrase "simply executing orders" somewhere in history class once before...
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Why does it matter that he was 75?
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I think the point they are trying to make was it was an elderly gentlemen which in most peoples eyes is worse. Not right doing that to anyone but someone at a fragile age with limited strength and looked frail at best is even worse.
 
Typically if they can resign from a unit without resigning from the service, then it's a voluntary assignment. Otherwise they'd be insubordinate and fired.
 
azzurri63 said:
TML fan said:
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/Ali_IngNews/status/1268979789488173058

They're protesting a couple of cops getting in trouble for pushing over a 75 year old man. He's in serious but stable condition after his head smashed into the ground. The video of the incident shows him bleeding from his ears as he lays motionless on the ground.

Also, I've read the phrase "simply executing orders" somewhere in history class once before...
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Why does it matter that he was 75?
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I think the point they are trying to make was it was an elderly gentlemen which in most peoples eyes is worse. Not right doing that to anyone but someone at a fragile age with limited strength and looked frail at best is even worse.
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Shouldn't we be trying to avoid placing people in special boxes? Isn't that the point of all this? You can't cry for equality and expect special treatment at the same time.
 
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