Discussion for article #230663
OMG… fuck the police. Seriously.
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If the NFLPA doesn’t back the players, they should decertify the union.
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Hey St. Louis Police Association: Ever hear of the concept of Free Speech???
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Police association demand players be punished. I am almost afraid to utter the question begging to be asked, “Or else…what?”
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The NFL is not a governmental entity, so I’m not sure you understand the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.
Regardless, trying to strongarm the NFL won’t end well for the police. I’d think they’d be trying to wait this out and get it off the front pages, not provoking even more protests.
Authoritarians gonna think like authoritarians, I guess.
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^This^… I read the SLPA statement twice… it’s one long ‘how dare you take offense’ to the killing of a unarmed teenager {didn’t you notice the ‘mountains of evidence’ he was black}… So yeah, Fuck 'em, enough is enough.
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Well, someone has to be held accountable for the turmoil in Ferguson. We know it won’t be Wilson or the DA.
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So why not go after those football players. For holding hands up in the universally recognized please-shoot-me pose. (And they are black, ya know.)
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“now that the evidence is in and Officer Wilson’s account has been verified by physical and ballistic evidence as well as eye-witness testimony”
What bullshit. Wilson was never cross-examined on his questionable testimony, nor was the evidence truly evaluated by a jury. That’s the whole fucking point of the protests, and if the police association has a problem with that, well too fucking bad. Maybe next time they should rein in their rogue cops before they go on paranoid murderous rampages.
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As the GI’s used to say, fuck 'em it the can’t take a joke.
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The gesture has become synonymous with assertions that Michael Brown was innocent of any wrongdoing and attempting to surrender peacefully when Wilson, according to some now-discredited witnesses, gunned him down in cold blood.
Odd, I always took the gesture as symbol that the police in United States, in general, tend to pull the trigger too quickly before fully assessing the situation. Mike Brown was just one possible example. Amadou Diallo, Aiyana Jones, Kajieme Powell, Tamir Rice, Margie Carranza and her mother Emma Hernandez, the Albuquerque Police Department are just a few other examples.
If the St. Louis Police Association at this point can’t understand that a significant proportion of the population - even a 57 year old white guy like me - think the police are too trigger happy, that this goes beyond Mike Brown, we have a real problem.
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Can I get one white Ram brave enough to stand with his brothers?
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They’ll be super-duper disappointed…and we wouldn’t want that to happen now, would we? I think we all know what the SLPD do when they’re super-duper disappointed.
Care to take a guess…?
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Could somebody link to a video of this?
The Police Association remarks just prove they are ready to ‘shoot’ their mouths off without thinking just as they are likely to pull the real trigger without thought.
Isn’t it time we stop letting simpletons join the Police ranks?
Maybe its time we have a national certification program for police that teaches them what it means to ‘protect and to serve’ everyone. At the same time, maybe we stop providing local police with military gear without proper training and clear evidence they know when and how to use the equipment for more than blatant intimidation.
We can and must expect better from our police.
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It’s not the NFL that’s attempting to silence them, it’s the police. Government agents.
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Why is it the people with all the guns and all the authority all have to be so fucking thin-skinned?
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Next game: a kiss-our-asses SLPA gesture. I don’t know what that would look like, but they can figure it out.
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The Police are sure pushing hard on the grand jury non-indictment, as if there had been an actual trial. It just makes this look all the more like a foregone conclusion from the beginning. A predetermined then staged exoneration, if you will.
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