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Minneapolis is on fire.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/27/george-floyd-protesters-clash-minneapolis-police-after-video/5264887002/
George Floyd was murderered by police on Monday. Protesters clashed with police on Tuesday and Wednesday. As of Thursday, the mayor has requested that the national guard be deployed, and has called for the arrest of the four police officers who murderered George Floyd.
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Truly wooly on the ground, can't fuckin imagine whatll transpire this evening
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I hate to say the only thing surprising is that the cops got fired
(I'm sure at least three of them will be reinstated if not all four)
what a shitty shitty world.
In a system that values capital over human life the cry that yells the loudest is property damage.
It’s going to be tough to make it look worse than the video we’ve all seen of the cop crushing Floyd’s neck with his knee while people were yelling at him that Floyd was dying
it's beyond easy to show whatever you want when you control all of the media
They killed a person, they need to be arrested.
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yeah, cops are like priests; when they make a "mistake," they just get shuffled around to a new job in a different area. Unless they actually go to prison.
or is that what the national guard is for, to arrest the murderer because the cops won't arrest their own?
The mayor does not in themselves have the unilateral authority to have someone arrested.
yeah he can put pressure on police leadership but they can tell him to pound sand if they want
usually this is for the best but police are scum so...
There’s apparently a chitauri battalion’s worth of cops standing guard outside his house
Holding Chauvin in custody is the cheapest and best play for everyone, he should be begging for it
Like, would we see any major differences in day to day without a police force? Or at least a diminished and completely disarmed police force? Cause it seems like when they actually have to do any sort of policing that doesn't involve cool Call of Duty gear or killing black people they kinda suck at their job. But I don't have numbers or anything.
don't be ridiculous
they'll happily arrest cops who give evidence against other cops
what? no. cops are good for all sorts of things, it's just when they're bad, they're the worst.
Seems like it’d be cheaper to keep him in a nice, safe jail cell.
Like, I'm trying to imagine a city actually instituting a "no guns on duty" policy, and the only result I can even imagine happening is "armed cops take over city hall, city leadership backs down"
Theoretically yes. There are a bunch of different models that could work instead.
Practically, it becomes a lot more difficult. Both in terms of like, no politician in the country would do it/police unions are too powerful/all that sort of stuff, and in terms of culture - that sort of structural change would be a dramatic alteration for literally every one in the country, and a lifetime of pro-police education and ingrained practices would make it extremely difficult for, in the absence of cops, someone not to invent them.
they're not even good at the things we supposedly keep them around for
Don't look up the statistics of those crimes cross-referenced with police officers.
domestic violence in particular needs social workers, not cops, at least forty percent of whom are themselves domestic abusers