RE: Please Justify This Police Action For Me
February 3, 2021 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2021 at 1:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 3, 2021 at 12:15 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Yeah, the cops did something really dumb by pepper spraying this girl, but what's more likely? They were worried about her getting hypothermia, or they just hate 9 year old black girls, don't see them as human beings, and wake up joyfully thinking that maybe today is the day they finally get to mace a little girl like they've been dreaming of?
Neither is likely. You wont find pepper spraying a person anywhere in any manual for treating hypothermia. You'll be equally hard pressed to find a grown adult, cop or otherwise, who wakes up dreaming of pepper spraying children.
-and yet.........
It seems to me that the context and nuance folks are being very disingenuous. The argument is offered up as an excuse to avoid a particular context, a particular nuance.
What does any and every instance of police brutality involve? Any and every violent act committed by agents of the government in any context? The willingness of the agent to engage in the act, and the belief that they have the assent of society in doing so. Why, do you think, there are officers who believe that these things we call police brutality are okay, why, do you think, we have so many brutalizers working in law enforcement? Why, do you think, those officers feel that they are empowered to act as they do?
I think that it's a lewis black joke playing out in reality. Iran iran iran iran IRAQ! We created an abusive system of law enforcement...for some reason™ - and this is exactly the sort of shit an abusive system will produce. I keep hearing about the sub-whiteness of the family, the size of the child, the fitness of the mother. Just stop, lol. None of that....none of that..... can explain why a cop does the things they do. The question really isn't what the child could have done better, or what the mother could have done better. It's not even an issue of what the individual officers could have done better. It's what we can do better as a society to produce a system which does not allow for this shit, and officers who will not consider it.
The silly excuses for cops in this thread aren't that. So long as we think they're relevant, I'm pretty sure we can't do better...because we're as much a product as any of those officers are.
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