CrimsonCommie
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Some people, no matter how much evidence, believe that cops are their "friends" until something happens to them.
Ferguson: Police Kill 18yo Black Male; Fire Gas/Rubber Bullets Into Protesting Crowds
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Some people, no matter how much evidence, believe that cops are their "friends" until something happens to them.
Foxy Fox 39
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Paid administrative leave. Military gear for day to day citizens. Swat teams being called in for vigels. Racially profiling minorities. I can cite almost any study, almost any book and show you the system is set up to encourage bad cops to do bad things because there is a Blue Wall. Because it's Us. Vs. them. Because policing today is more about numbers and quotas and a show of force than protecting actual humans.
Chie Satonaka
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"I'm willing to support a fellow officer even when I know it's wrong."
Nope, nothing instutionally wrong with this at all! Cops are like a fraternity! You civvies will never understand.
Cops having each other's backs, even when they have done something wrong like killing someone unjustifiably, is exactly what people are talking about when they refer to the blue wall. How can police be trusted to protect us when they are too busy protecting their own, even other cops who illegally killed a black teenager for example?
The hell it doesn't. It's a system where cops and CO's regularly face minimal consequences for very serious abuses.
block tower
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can someone catch me up with a streamlined update? i dipped out of the thread early last night and it seems a lot has changed, but im at work and cant go through all the previous pages. what was the no fly zone about??
Brolic Gaoler
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Brolic Gaoler
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And again, it's not all the time and everywhere. Me saying "it happens" doesn't mean everyone does it.
However, throwing a fellow officer under the bus before he's been proven wrong isn't gonna happen.
In this day and age everything COs do is recorded (at least in federal). We literally have cameras everywhere and at least in the Federal Bureau of Prisons they don't hesitate to hammer the shit out of you and convict you for abuse.
MorisUkunRasik
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Which is the fault of the police. If the citizens feel oppressed by those that are supposed to protect then the police have failed.
Zoe
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That's apparently an old and unrelated incident.
CrimsonCommie
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What am I reading?
Foxy Fox 39
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So the alternative is to throw the unarmed [dead] citizen under the bus. Gotcha.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
And that's 100% correct. Which is why many departments are raising standards, using civilian review boards, and recording/videoing the actions of officers.
You're reading that if a CO in the bureau of prisons abuses an inmate, he's done.
benjipwns
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It's the same disconnect they have regarding the corporation known as the state in general.
CrimsonCommie
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Oh ok I thought you meant police. I totally misread your post! Same should happen to cops. But sadly it doesn't.
Yeah. It's sad really..
As it should be.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I didn't say to the contrary. In fact, those cameras that work against bad officers also save us good officers when an inmate inevitably files a bogus grievance.
Velcro Fly
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it was "under investigation" or something wasn't it? so nothing in other words
Mattlikewhoa
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I like this photo too.
Same here... That's some powerful stuff right there!
Ha ha ha. Not in the slightest subtle.
Inflammable Slinky
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lol you are literally what is wrong with america. ok not all of it but a good portion. if one of my coworkers shot an 18 year old kid and a witness came out claiming it was unprovoked you damn well better believe i'd throw him under the bus.
but keep equivocating, i'm sure you'll be proven right in the end.
This video really got to me. People aren't even safe in their own yards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhtvd0o2Fw
Velcro Fly
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it's a mix of "hands up" "we in our yard" and "shoot that motherfucker"
obviously they mean shoot as in take video, but it seems like that might have been the excuse to attack =/
CrimsonCommie
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Fuck man that really got me too. How can anybody defend this disgusting shit? There is NOTHING these innocent people can do against these piece of shit terrorists. If they try to fight back well we all know what will happen. Everybody needs to stand together to fight this shit.
block tower
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own assult weapons and other fire arms just in case, have something recording your property. my father's house has three security cameras that run automatically and log into his pc. if i were some of the folks in Ferguson id be recording what was going on 24/7. id be filming whenever i was around these police.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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He'd better have plans to elaborate. Phuck the haters.Obama released a statement:
The articles about the media or articles from media outlets themselves?
It's like I've always said: it's divide-and-conquer. They profit from this. The citizens there recording on their phones are instantly more credible than the media.
Chie Satonaka
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I saw the video live on the stream yesterday. You're right, of course. The people need to stand up to the rampant police force. The problem is that black life is disposable and most people really don't fucking care if black kids get killed by police. Hell, we just saw last year that a sizeable amount of people don't fucking care if black kids get killed by civilians under the "right" circumstances.
CrimsonCommie
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I know. Just look at the studies that say the death penalty and the whole justice system is supported MORE when people learn it's racist towards blacks. It's fucking sad
This shit right here is what's wrong with this police force, summed up in one video. This needs to be in the OP, real talk. I'm gonna stop before I get banned.
gutter_trash
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Cops tells people to go home.
People go home, then stand in their yard in their rights.
Cops fire tear gas into yard.
then cops continue to tell people who already home to go home.. eeesh
Foxy Fox 39
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Any links?
I said it earlier in the thread, and it's semantics, but I believe the police meant for the people to be in their homes, not just standing in their yards.
CrimsonCommie
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The police can't stop you from standing in your yard!
gutter_trash
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so that is basically house arrest
thats not how police work. Stop making excuses for bullshit. Its us for now, but its sure as hell going to spread to everyone else in the nation. We need a overhaul/review/restart for the justice system and police training. Immediately. No more of this "well... im ok with all this brutality because you aren't listening to the police!" The police aren't here to brutalize all of us if we don't listen to every word they say. It shouldn't be excused, it should be held up for scrutiny.
No it is not. It is the police trying to clear the scene. Having people enter their homes removes them from the scene. They are locked in their houses indefinitely.
Everyone is posting conjecture and asking questions as to why. I was offering a possible reason. Calm down.
Ok, and then don't get pissed when you get tear gassed when the large group of people don't disperse. If the police have lost their collective minds and are just firing blindly in the crowd, be my guest and stand outside and be a target instead of being inside where there is a certain level of safety.
This isn't about siding with the police at this point. It's about common sense and self preservation.
Mammoth Jones
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depths20XX
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Why are they so quick to fire off tear gas canisters? Let alone at people in their own yard. That shit can hurt people.
Your possible reasons don't make any sense. Its just a pathetic attempt at an excuse that doesn't hold up to reality, its just least likely conjecture vs more likely conjecture.
CrimsonCommie
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No this about about their right to fight back the only way they can against terrorists. The police have no right to fire tear gas at innocent people in their own fucking yard! Are you really defending this shit?
Chie Satonaka
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You are shameful apologist.
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