Discussion: Police Offer Very Different Account Of Protest Incident GOPer Blamed On 'Mob'

The reason the accounts diverge is because one was written by an officer from the Huntington Beach Police Department; the other was written by a special agent from the GOP: Special Victims Unit.

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The police need a special report form for Republican-related incidents, containing a section for alternative facts.

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If I was standing behind a door and someone bashed a child in the head, I would jam my foot into the base of the door and hold it immobile to allow everyone to get clear before it gets slammed on someone’s hand. There is a clear video on Twitter showing the little girl getting hit and instantly crying. Oh the horror of the replies from Trumpers.

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If they were anything like the Trumper commentators I’ve seen on news articles about local protests, I assume they were upset the police didn’t field execute the child Judge Dredd style?

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No, they were calling for the mother to be reported to Child Protective Services for child abuse. And I assure you there are GOP nutbags who are demented enough to dox this woman and file phony charges. That’s how they roll.

One of the things that concerns me lately is that the alt-right is attacking liberal gathering spots like small arts venues by filing fake fire reports. And they are succeeding in getting them shut down.

Brooklyn: The Experiment Comedy Gallery has been shut down, and supporters fear the alt-right is to blame

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Briefly, Rohrabacher is a butthead. Simple as that really.

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Not sure if that is better or worse than the calls in the comments on local stories for the police to open fire on protestors. On the one hand violence would obviously be worse if it were to actually come about, but on the other that is just wishful “fantasies” while the doxing is shit that they could actually make happen.

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the “Huntington Beach Massacre”. Add it to the list…

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Oh they know exactly what they’re doing. But there is no guarantee against blowback.

Ireland’s Prime Minister in Crisis Over Case of Police Whistle-Blower

DUBLIN — Enda Kenny, Ireland’s prime minister since 2011, is facing one of the worst political crises of his career over a convoluted police scandal that has dragged on for more than a decade.

The scandal has been compared to the case of Frank Serpico, the detective whose testimony in the 1970s brought to light corruption in the New York Police Department.

The matter dates to 2006, when an officer began raising concerns about low-level misconduct within the National Police Service.

The officer, Sgt. Maurice McCabe, quickly found himself shunned by his fellow officers. But he persisted, exposing what he said was a practice of deleting penalty points incurred by drivers for minor traffic violations. Eventually, a government inquiry found in his favor.

But the case won’t go away. Last week, The Irish Examiner and the public broadcaster RTE’s “Prime Time” program reported that Ireland’s child protection agency had created a file on Sergeant McCabe containing a false accusation of child sexual abuse — a mistake that the agency has attributed to what it called a clerical error…

… Yet another police officer, Superintendent Keith Harrison, has come forward, saying that he stopped a colleague for drunken driving in 2009 and, in retaliation, found his family referred to the child protection agency over a baseless allegation.