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Nazi Cops F*ck Off!
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Cops are fucking cops - even here in the peoples’ republic of Portland.
He couldn’t think of five American soldiers to honor with his excess plaque-placing energy?
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Jeebus, had to read this story three times. Was looking for a beginning, middle and end but still got lost. Plus it has that back to the future thing going on. Logic didn’t help either - got stuck on the idea of a history buff attaching a plaque to a tree in a park, never mind the plaque’s content. Who does this? Oh, it was a cop. OK, OK, now let’s fast forward 11 years (2010). You know what, never mind. I have to get over my attraction to rabbit holes.
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Exactly. Did he just go into the park by himself or was there some sort of dedication ceremony? It seems like there should be a law against letting just anybody nail up a plaques in a public park.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found the presentation of this story confusing. Very unclear chronology, hard to figure out who was who, etc. Then there were little gems like this one toward the end: “The lieutenant communicated with a civilian who oversaw the department’s internal affairs investigations, who reassured her in text messages made public in the suit that included references to Kruger as a Nazi.” He “reassured her” that there were references to Kruger as a Nazi?? What the f*** does that mean?
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Is there a story that goes along with this? Did I somehow miss the first page?
Let’s all celebrate HATE.
I did some googling and found a very interesting article.
The short story with Kruger is that he’s definitely a neo-Nazi and the Portland police force circled the wagons to protect him against charges of police brutality even though they knew it and now they have a big mess on their hands.
This is a good article not just about Kruger.
Policing in general is not an impartial practice, but a method of social control, and this control runs along class and racial lines as well as gender, sexual identity, and so forth. While policing is often rationalized as “keeping people safe,” brutality, abuse and even killings are not aberrant, but are structurally part of the system of policing. Not everyone is protected by the police; in the final analysis, the cops tend towards protecting the status quo. Those on the other side of the American Dream experience policing differently. Modern policing in America traces back to—amongst other influences—the slave patrol system, and has changed as racial and class power have shifted and reconstructed themselves. Of particular note is the boom in mass incarceration—disproportionately affecting people of color and the poor—which followed from political attempts to roll back the gains of the 1960s, especially all that flowered from the Civil Rights movement. Policing and incarceration are at present intimately linked.
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Thanks, Doremus.
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I’ve been poking around that Rose City web site and their tactics seem as extreme as the people they’re fighting against. Portland seems like an interesting place.
To paraphrase Jake (or was it Elmo) Blues, "God damn Oregon Nazis.P