Born N Bled Red Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I have a terrible feeling at some point these peaceful protesters will take a page out of the, white people playbook and come fully loaded to a peaceful protest in response to the police brutality that is playing out over and over again. God help us if that happens. 1 Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Enhance said: I think you're right to some degree. I also think there's a measure of frustration and exhaustion (mental/physical) on behalf of law enforcement. To be clear, I don't consider that an excuse for some of what we're seeing. If anything, we're seeing the exact kind of stuff that people are protesting about. But I can't imagine it's easy being an officer during these times when people are targeting you with projectiles, screaming at you, and demanding things from you. And then on top of all that you might be on day four of 12's. They signed up for this life. They have to be better. Most cops are walking around doing the right things during these troubling times so now is as good an opportunity as any to weed out the people that have no business being in law enforcement. I couldn’t agree more. This would be an excellent time to weed out the bad eggs. But the ability to accomplish that is more of the problem than the bad officers themselves. The system is messed up and it is designed to foster and support the bad behavior and to defend it at virtually all costs. That is why the protests are necessary and why we’re still having these problems. If it were as easy as identifying the bad ones and firing them.....well it would be really easy. I think a good start would be some legislation that prohibits police unions from fighting charges against accused officers. I’m not a fan of unions but they are probably somewhat of a necessity for that profession but I see no reason why their involvement has to include automatic defense of the scumbags who commit these atrocities. Maybe their role could be limited to negotiating contracts and working conditions only. But the automatic full faith and support of these organizations needs to be limited. Really, IMO it’s the major problem with all unions. Subpar bad employees are virtually impossible to get rid of. 2 Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 It's getting awfully hard to buy the "But it's a small percent of cops!" narrative that is being spun out there. 2 Link to comment
teachercd Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I really thought that by today it would have really died down but it doesn't seem to be happening. I have to admire the peaceful protesters ability to keep it up. Link to comment
Enhance Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Not sure if this has been followed up and shared yet here, but the Denver officer who posted the 'Let's start a riot' Instagram photo was fired Tuesday. Obviously a major issue overall, but this also may be an example of the problem with social media gratification and over-sharing. Literally 30 seconds of actual, meaningful thought may have helped him here. 1 Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 A pretty fitting way to cap off the week... 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, schriznoeder said: A pretty fitting way to cap off the week... This is f#&%ing awesome. Except I'm 100% sure some racist douche of a mayor somewhere is going to copy this with an a$$h@!e street name. 1 Link to comment
RedDenver Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 25 minutes ago, Moiraine said: This is f#&%ing awesome. Except I'm 100% sure some racist douche of a mayor somewhere is going to copy this with an a$$h@!e street name. Right-wing snowflake meltdown in 3...2...1... Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 Solidarity with... checks notes... the guys who pushed a senior citizen unprovoked and left him bleeding out on the street. WTF? 1 Link to comment
FrantzHardySwag Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 33 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said: Solidarity with... checks notes... the guys who pushed a senior citizen unprovoked and left him bleeding out on the street. WTF? Take their badges and their pensions and tell them to not let the door hit them on the way out... 3 Link to comment
RedDenver Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 17 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said: I'm starting to get really, really pissed off. I'm a veteran. I served during war. I fought for this country. I didn't fight for freedoms so cops could come and piss all over them. I have been thinking the protestors are wrong for breaking curfew...I will now be going to out break it with them. I'll be encouraging every single person I know, young and old, to come out in force to do it. I hope it's not too late to take America back to democracy from the brink of fascism....but if you don't think we're almost there based on these police videos, you aren't very intelligent or just don't care. I'm with you. 1 Link to comment
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