My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works. | Talking Points Memo

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Trying to sit down and eat while black:

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Hmmmmm…the kid hit the police car?

I see their logic now! The suspect attacked the officer’s fist with his face. The suspect attacked the officer’s knee with his neck. The suspect attempted to steal the officers bullet by running away.

Well then, case closed.

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Ah, the good ol 76th precinct. I’m in the same area for work and have been screwed by cops lying about traffic violations. Standard cop fare and far less traumatizing, I know. But I’ve also been hit by a cop car going in reverse at speed while I was at a dead stop…in front of 12 other cops including a lieutenant. Guess how that one ended? You got it! Nobody “saw a thing” and of course the officer who hit me puts in his report I was the one who hit HIM, despite him and his lieutenant claiming they’d report the real event after I got suspicious and firmly pressed them on it, realizing the game that was about to be played. No surprise that the lie still made it into the report but luckily I had photos and extensive notes I took immediately after. My insurance took it all and were actually horrified by the story, and dealt with it excellently (State Farm). And that was that. Too bad there isn’t insurance for being black in America.

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All cops are stationary frames of reference, that’s physics 101.

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Blue lies matter.

Our country suffers from a tremendous accountability shortage.

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When I called Baker back, he told me that my wife and the three others were mistaken. The car hadn’t hit the kid. The kid had hit the car.

“We are now pursuing charges against the kid for damaging a police vehicle and for inflicting severe emotional trauma on the officers in the vehicle.”

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When I called Baker back, he told me that my wife and the three others were mistaken. The car hadn’t hit the kid. The kid had hit the car.

Sounds like our judicial system.

Parse every tiny syllable until you find a set of words that can be rendered meaningless.

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Wrong city, wrong century. They’ll be out of business soon.

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I don’t believe any police statement should be admissible without corroborating video at this point. They are professional gang members and liars.

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New footage out of Philly shows the cops were lying about the protests on the highway when they gassed and pepper sprayed all those people trapped on the side of the highway. No one rocked any cars and the audio is cops reporting that the protesters are peaceful. Cops are compulsive liars and professional gang members. Fire them all and start over.

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"It said the investigation is still open, along with 2,848 others."

The strategy is to wait for the participants to die. Slow-walking to death.

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Fuck the pigs.

Don’t joke, it’s probably only a matter of time at this point before they do exactly that. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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de Blasio sorta kinda tried to rein this in, or at least put on a nice public show, but it mostly didn’t go anywhere. Yeah, they technically ended S&F, but they found ways around it. They always do and they always will. He didn’t stand a chance, assuming he even wanted to do anything about it. Cuomo’s run circles around him, and he’s got far less pull than the NYPD, the largest PD in the country and bigger than some countries’ military. To fix this will take a coordinated federal, state and local effort, akin to how the south was desegregated, with federal intervention and troops. I think it can be done and I hope it will be done. But it would be a massive and literally bloody undertaking as these guys play for keeps and are more lethal and out of control than the mob. It’s the mob with more members and weapons, with the law on its side. And that’s the approach that has to be taken, an anti-racketeering one, going after a mob with deep connections inside the legal and political system, and lots of social sympathy.

I also expect local PDs all over the country to actively try to help Trump win, the way they did in 2016, only this time by allowing a climate of lawlessness to pervade in the hopes that voters reelect Trump on a law and order platform, fearing that Biden, a liberal, will be soft on crime.