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RE: US police brutality item
June 4, 2020 at 1:29 am
(June 4, 2020 at 12:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: "I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon"
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Also, goddammit, Trump, stop trying to give potential presidential assassins an easier time!
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June 5, 2020 at 6:23 am
NYPD Commisioner Dermont Shea is just really upset about how the cops are being oppressed.
It's almost like they understand the problem, so long as it's on the other foot.
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 6:27 am
(June 4, 2020 at 12:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: "I really believe I’d run waddle in there even if I didn’t have a weapon"
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FTFY.
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 8:08 am
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(June 5, 2020 at 6:23 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: NYPD Commisioner Dermont Shea is just really upset about how the cops are being oppressed.
It's almost like they understand the problem, so long as it's on the other foot.
I heard some remarks made by an American politico (her name escapes me) a day or so ago to the effect that if police are prevented from using excessive force, most of them will quit.
Erm...isn’t that what you’d WANT to happen?
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 8:11 am
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Similarly, responding to funding cuts, LAPD Chief Michel Moore threatens the city with violence if they don't receive their desired payments.
I thought that the police were supposed to shut protection rackets down, not run them.
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 9:41 am
(June 5, 2020 at 8:11 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Similarly, responding to funding cuts, LAPD Chief Michel Moore threatens the city with violence if they don't receive their desired payments.
I thought that the police were supposed to shut protection rackets down, not run them.
Yeah, I’ve read about that waterhead. Apparently, he believes that effects come before causes. He said that Floyd’s blood is on the looter’s hands just as much as on the cops who killed him.
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 9:42 am
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It's particularly galling to me, since I served at a time where we...as soldiers serving a us mission with NATO, were forced to purchase our own body armor out of pocket - in addition to a number of other items deemed critical to our success. In many cases, items which we would be officially punished for, for not posessing.
Their lack of faith in their mission disturbs me.
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June 5, 2020 at 9:48 am
Unlike the Lt. Colonel I link to earlier who told the crowd, ‘We are here to protect your constitution rights.’ And they cheered.
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June 5, 2020 at 10:01 am
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We cheer those soldiers who protect our rights, and rightfully oppose those soldiers who are tasked with removing them from us. Getting a scroll or a badge doesn't change who a person is, but it is demonstrably clear that some who have them deserve them, and others...not at all.
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RE: US police brutality item
June 5, 2020 at 10:33 pm
Is it fair to assume that these street protests will go on until the elections which are now about 150 days away?
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