After watching the MPLS PD, Buffalo PD, NYPD, Philly PD, LAPD, APD, KCPD and others this past week, I think Ice Cube may have gotten it wrong. It’s not ‘F the police’. The police are ‘f’ing themselves’.
There really aren’t many groups in society with more outsizes political power and support relative to their actual numbers than law enforcement. Yet, they appear to be in a mad dash to squander every last ounce of political capital they’ve had.
From the rawstory article:
According to Buffalo Police Benevolent Association president John Evans, the cops who pushed Gugino down were just following orders.
I believe that has pretty conclusively been established to not be a valid excuse.
Our soldiers all are expected to know this. So what the Hell are they teaching the police in training?
May George Floyd’s death lead to the end of enough Repugnicant careers that the coming Dem majority Congress will be able to pass legislation that outlaws these uses of force across the nation so that it can be signed by Joe Biden on Jan 21, 2021.
Then we can talk about whether or not he’s smiling.
PDs are a hammer. That’s how they’ve been designed and perpetuated.
There it is. That is the point. And it is obvious if these folks aren’t acting out their anger and fear on POC, they would be doing it to whoever they COULD get their mitts on. They got to steal from somebody. They have to frame someone. They need to run their little drug games, they need to run their little prostitution games, they need to run their protection rackets, they need to extort people. They need to plant guns and evidence, they need to seize property, get rich off of forfeitures. They need to corrupt their union, they need to cold call all day and night for dollars.
And @donnyyoung, the almost casual way that cop shoved that old man says in 10 miliseconds “I get to behave like I am in Iraq and everything is an enemy, everything is a deadly threat (but since this is U.S. that means citizens), every human is a potential suicide-bomber, you don’t get to come up to me, I get to strike first, you get to deal with whatever results.”
A 2013 Justice Department survey found that of police departments that serve more than 1 million people, 43% allow a neck restraint of some kind.
As goes Minneapolis, so goes the state (and nation)?
Why were the white slave holders ever allowed to do it legally? Isn’t that destroying private property?
Republicans really need to figure out what their conservative ideology represents these days and stick to it. Letting the Russian Mafia hoods make it up as they go along just proves you stand for nothing at all except hypocrisy and corruption.
That kind of crap only works in Moscow where they don’t pretend to be anything put the brutal fascists they are. Stop lying to yourselves, dotards.
Send them all to Siberia. They will feel right at home there…on the other side of the bully club for a change.
The prevailing lie at the moment (always subject to change and elaboration) is that this police/guard unit had a medic in the rear who routinely attends to the Rag Heads whom the advancing warriors beat into the ground as they pass by. So they had the situation in hand.
Shunning all human compassion and proudly displaying elder abuse is the only optional with conservatives these days.
The health of everyone’s nearest and dearest, as well as anything to do with the rule of law including the Constitution, must be “sacrificed” to quench the blood lust of the GOP’s Second Coming of God. Republicans want us to believe that marauding unit was a religious procession.
They have a fairly hard floor on that, just like morbotus. There will always be authoritarians and holster-sniffers.
The Camden results are encouraging. Thanks for posting that.
What I really like about the agreement is this:
The agreement would require court approval and would become enforceable in court, unlike the department’s current policies on the use of force and duties to intervene.
This is huge, because previous reform efforts have been mostly blocked by the union, which is run by a racist Trumppie.
I suspect that the Dem governor and the Dem Mayor worked with AG Keith Ellison to put the new rules out of the reach of the union president. Court-enforceable rules will outweigh union efforts to block accountability for police officers.
Well, there’s the problem.
We need a Buffalo Benevolent Police Association.
In a sane world they would have already been banned
