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[Police Brutality] "Nobody is doing that" Edition

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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    I don't know if I am more disturbed by these products or by the fact that these people attend training preparing them specifically to shoot children without questioning their career decision.

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    AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    I don't know if I am more disturbed by these products or by the fact that these people attend training preparing them specifically to shoot children without questioning their career decision.

    One cop chose to go above and beyond and make the target a picture of his own kid, so at least in that case i'm gonna go with the latter.

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    SimpsoniaSimpsonia Registered User regular
    While it is disgusting, and cops may still be doing it, this particular company (mentioned in that Reason article) discontinued those targets 8 years ago after public outcry at the time.

    https://reason.com/2013/02/25/law-enforcement-targets-inc-discontinues/

    It does still reinforce the point that the law enforcement industrial (hysteria) complex has gone to ridiculous lengths to convince both police and citizens that police needs to be ready to shoot at one's own shadow to remain perfectly safe and is justified in doing so.

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    GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

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    DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    And that's where we got the "Police have a duty to protect the public from crime, but not any specific member of the public from any specific crime."

    Or am I remembering a different time police stood outside while a shooting happened?

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    DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    Also, with regards to the EMT thing. I worked security at a hospital for a while and had to deal with police and EMTs. One of the guys that worked after me was an EMT and told me about a car crash they were called to. They get there, driver is injured and unconscious, has a cell phone in their lap. Cops on scene tells him not to move it so he wouldn't disturb their crime scene. EMT said fuck off to that noise and tossed it in the back so he could administer aid to the injured driver.

    There are numerous other helpful professions someone can be other than a cop. Pick those instead.

    EDIT: Oh also, the supervisor was the only one to use the taser on someone while I was there.

    He was also the only former cop.

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    RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    Pulse and I believe Parkland have (in theory) resulted to emergency response orthodoxy in mass shooter situations.

    In the case of Pulse the general culture shift was if a shooter holds up somewhere and generally doesn't have a line of sight on some immobile victims, cops will establish a perimeter and rescue personnel will start triaging and removing victims from the more dangerous area to a collection point for treatment.

    This change was brought about because multiple viable victims expired in the main area of the nightclub because the shooter was held up in the bathroom and the head of rescue operations on the scene (a Fire Chief) wouldn't permit members to enter because the police hadn't fully secured the scene.

    Parkland either generated the following change or was the first prominent failure of it because the first officer on scene fled rather then engage the shooter.

    Cops in a lot of jurisdictions now are supposed to engage the shooters as soon as possible/individually even in mass shooter scenarios because the response in place at least since Columbine (muster somewhere, wait for swat, go in with overwhelming force) has enabled shooters to essentially end these scenarios on their terms.

    They either end up exhausting their targets, finding people who were hiding or picking a spot to ambush police with the best outcome possible being the first and they then decide to kill themselves. So cops have to go in there and actually do something. Or not, the officer who fled Parkland was fired and got their job back despite overwhelming cowardice.

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Docshifty wrote: »
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    And that's where we got the "Police have a duty to protect the public from crime, but not any specific member of the public from any specific crime."

    Or am I remembering a different time police stood outside while a shooting happened?

    Cases on that issue go back decades. At least one of the cases is like from the late 70s, early 80s. Got nothing to do with mass shootings.

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Docshifty wrote: »
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    And that's where we got the "Police have a duty to protect the public from crime, but not any specific member of the public from any specific crime."

    Or am I remembering a different time police stood outside while a shooting happened?

    I think that particular precedent was set when someone was knifed on a subway and the cops were barricading the door until the victim managed to take down his attacker and they moved in. He sued the police for basically letting him be attacked and Court ruled police had no obligation to put themselves in danger to stop crime in progress

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    DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Docshifty wrote: »
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    And that's where we got the "Police have a duty to protect the public from crime, but not any specific member of the public from any specific crime."

    Or am I remembering a different time police stood outside while a shooting happened?

    I think that particular precedent was set when someone was knifed on a subway and the cops were barricading the door until the victim managed to take down his attacker and they moved in. He sued the police for basically letting him be attacked and Court ruled police had no obligation to put themselves in danger to stop crime in progress

    I must be confusing it coming up during conversations about his actions with it being decided then. My bad!

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    mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Docshifty wrote: »
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    IIRC, cops responding to the Parkland School shooting "waited for backup" rather than try and engage the shooter whom was actively shooting the people that society assumed police are supposed to protect. Seems like the real protectors become firefighters or EMS..

    And that's where we got the "Police have a duty to protect the public from crime, but not any specific member of the public from any specific crime."

    Or am I remembering a different time police stood outside while a shooting happened?

    I think that particular precedent was set when someone was knifed on a subway and the cops were barricading the door until the victim managed to take down his attacker and they moved in. He sued the police for basically letting him be attacked and Court ruled police had no obligation to put themselves in danger to stop crime in progress

    Goes back further. Think that’s a case from like 2012. This one goes all the way back to 1981 (trigger warning for rape):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

    Long story short women living in a house called the police about an intruder, police drove by, knocked on the door, waited about a minute, then fucked off for a donut.

    They called *again,* and no further officers ever showed up.

    There may well be earlier ones. But that’s the one that every gun nut in the world can cite from memory, which is why as a former gun nut I know it offhand. Cops never have to show up. They want all the credit for being heroes, while accepting zero risk to themselves in shooting decisions and zero responsibility to actually ever help anybody out at all.

    They’ve fought vigorously for the right to be as useful and cowardly as they please. Meanwhile dressing as pretend soldiers and using every opportunity available to use force when it suits them.

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Found it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree

    This is the particularly egregious one in recent memory, because but only did the police refuse to try stopping a murder in progress but they already knew Maksim was wanted the moment he got on the train and immediately ran away. Rather than confront the murderer and arrest him they instead retreated to the conductor cabin, leaving the other passengers vulnerable without them realizing the danger they were now in.

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Found an excellent data aggregator - Mapping Police Violence. The team has been gathering information about all killings by police in the US, in a downloadable database and interactive graphics. There's stuff here I didn't know about, or didn't have contextualized. For instance, there are seven city police departments that murder black men at higher rates than the US murder rate. There were only 18 days last year when police didn't kill someone in the US - there were four killings on Christmas.

    If you know anyone who might actually be on the fence, this could be an excellent link to show them. There are people out there who are ignorant (or are trying to stay ignorant) about the problem. Might get some fence sitters on our side before the police state gets all of us.

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    CelestialBadgerCelestialBadger Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Found it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree

    This is the particularly egregious one in recent memory, because but only did the police refuse to try stopping a murder in progress but they already knew Maksim was wanted the moment he got on the train and immediately ran away. Rather than confront the murderer and arrest him they instead retreated to the conductor cabin, leaving the other passengers vulnerable without them realizing the danger they were now in.

    A lot of police murders are the result of cowardice - they have it in their heads that black men are crazed murder machines with unnatural strength on 7 sorts of drugs, so they shoot first and ask questions later. The unofficial police motto is "It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6" and it informs a lot of their actions.

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Cowardice, in that bullies are often cowards. It makes them more brutal towards easy targets that can't fight back, like children, and tiny 73 year old ladies with dementia.

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    MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Cowardice, in that bullies are often cowards. It makes them more brutal towards easy targets that can't fight back, like children, and tiny 73 year old ladies with dementia.

    Also, shooting the caretakers of autistic patients, in an attempt to save the caretaker from the autistic patient they were shooting at, and then ARRESTING THE WOUNDED CARETAKER THAT APPARENTLY WASN'T THE TARGET.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey

    "A police department employee told the Herald that the officer fired because the autistic patient did not obey police commands"

    Yup. That's a reason to use potentially lethal force.

    At least in that case, the officer was fired after being convicted of... culpable negligence. And suffered through his entire sentence of.... "one year of administrative probation, 100 hours of community service, and to write a 2,500-word essay on communication and weapon discharges. His conviction would also not appear on a criminal record due to the withholding of adjudication. He was released from probation less than five months later."

    "Rivera (local head of the Police Benevolent Association) said that Kinsey "did everything right." ".

    Blue wall of fucking assholes.

    EDIT: Error on my part, Kinsey was the victim here, not the shooter. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around a PBA representative siding with the victim under any circumstance, but it's apparently the case. Though he did cover for the shooter saying he was "trying to save Kinsey's life.", despite multiple civilians and officers (and the victim) saying the autistic man was not armed.

    Still trying to wrap my head around the idea that he shoots at what he claims after the fact is the threat, hits the supposed hostage, and then handcuffs the hostage. I mean, if he thought that the guy he shot was the victim, why would he restrain HIM?

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    "Cellphone video footage, showing mental health therapist Charles Kinsey lying on the ground with his arms raised in North Miami, Florida, before being shot by police officer Jonathan Aledda. Kinsey's autistic patient is seated beside him."

    Ohhhh. Now it all makes sense.

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    SapporoL1ght5SapporoL1ght5 Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    SapporoL1ght5 was warned for this.
    Butters wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Anyway here's video of police killing a 13 year old kid with his hands up

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/adam-toledo-chicago-police-video

    Oh
    For
    Fuck's
    Sake

    ...

    The fact that the cop then called for an ambulance and tried to save the kid makes me suspect he (the cop) didn't actually mean to shoot him. Which, if true, doesn't make this better, to be clear. Just bad in a different way.

    Or he meant to shoot him because he thought the kid had a gun or something because a ton of cops are basically in fight-or-flight mode the entire time they are on the job and are expecting to be ambushed by "thugs" trying to murder them at any moment.

    If the linked article is to be believed, there is some evidence that he had a gun, but had just tossed it. Per the written description, video shows him making a tossing motion behind the fence, and a gun was allegedly found there ("allegedly" is used intentionally). The fact that he was 13 is not mutually exclusive with him having a gun. Though if he did..."if" also used intentionally...it was likely handed off to him by the actual guy doing the shooting.

    Sounds like the video is pretty clear that his hands were empty at the time that he was shot. But the officer may not have been entirely unreasonable to be on edge, given that he was responding to a shots-fired call and this child may well have been holding a gun seconds earlier. Which to some extent would be on whoever gave the fucking thing to him.

    EDIT: Still probably a bad shoot IMO, if that's unclear. Preferred consequences for me being at the least that this person does not carry a gun on the job ever again.

    This guy had a gun too

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    He also was cooperating with police (shit he got chased after he was heading over to the cops to hand himself in after he had a shot someone) and not making sudden movements like a dumb ass. In before hurr he blew up someone's bicep (yep after the slimy fucker tried to execute him with a pistol after pretending to surrender).

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    GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    Uhhh. Who do you think that is?

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    They know who they are, they’re sympathetic to KR’s plight

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    BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    Look, all he did was break, like three laws. Then he tried to turn himself in to the cops! Like any good law a biding citizen that was breaking multiple laws would've done! Also, he killed some people while breaking the laws, again, as any good law abiding citizen would have done!

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    David WalgasDavid Walgas Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Call me crazy, I don’t think “when your friends say you can’t kill commies and snort coke all day” guy is actually going to add anything to this.

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    LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    .

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Rittenhouse stans can kindly fuck off.

    Geth, kick @SapporoL1ght5 from the thread.

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    GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative Bogart. @SapporoL1ght5 banned from this thread.

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    TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Butters wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Calica wrote: »
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Anyway here's video of police killing a 13 year old kid with his hands up

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/adam-toledo-chicago-police-video

    Oh
    For
    Fuck's
    Sake

    ...

    The fact that the cop then called for an ambulance and tried to save the kid makes me suspect he (the cop) didn't actually mean to shoot him. Which, if true, doesn't make this better, to be clear. Just bad in a different way.

    Or he meant to shoot him because he thought the kid had a gun or something because a ton of cops are basically in fight-or-flight mode the entire time they are on the job and are expecting to be ambushed by "thugs" trying to murder them at any moment.

    If the linked article is to be believed, there is some evidence that he had a gun, but had just tossed it. Per the written description, video shows him making a tossing motion behind the fence, and a gun was allegedly found there ("allegedly" is used intentionally). The fact that he was 13 is not mutually exclusive with him having a gun. Though if he did..."if" also used intentionally...it was likely handed off to him by the actual guy doing the shooting.

    Sounds like the video is pretty clear that his hands were empty at the time that he was shot. But the officer may not have been entirely unreasonable to be on edge, given that he was responding to a shots-fired call and this child may well have been holding a gun seconds earlier. Which to some extent would be on whoever gave the fucking thing to him.

    EDIT: Still probably a bad shoot IMO, if that's unclear. Preferred consequences for me being at the least that this person does not carry a gun on the job ever again.

    This guy had a gun too

    kyle-rittenhouse-shooter8.jpg

    He also was cooperating with police (shit he got chased after he was heading over to the cops to hand himself in after he had a shot someone) and not making sudden movements like a dumb ass. In before hurr he blew up someone's bicep (yep after the slimy fucker tried to execute him with a pistol after pretending to surrender).
    Imagine referring to a 13 year old child who was killed as a dumbass.

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    But this is what I was talking about, even on these forums which are predominantly left leaning, there are people who are defending KH. I think we’ll see 2 hung juries. Before the prosecutor gives up.

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    These forums are public, anonymous, and under no compulsion or burden of consequence to be 100% concordant. There are a lot of difference between this discussion and what goes on in a courtroom

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    It feels really weird that probably everybody has experiences being reflexively startled by innocuous things but a ton of people seem to think that pairing that with shooting a person because the thing that startled you could involve a weapon makes sense.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    It feels really weird that probably everybody has experiences being reflexively startled by innocuous things but a ton of people seem to think that pairing that with shooting a person because the thing that startled you could involve a weapon makes sense.

    Like, does that excuse feel like it would work for a normal person? "Sorry, I was nervous and I thought they had a gun. Don't convict me of any crimes thanks."

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    PhistiPhisti Registered User regular
    I have had the burden of sitting on a murder jury. My experience was that everyone in the room feels the pressure of potentially two ruined lives (and then some) and the idiots who are bigoted or disinterested or just want to go home are immediately sidelined from the conversation and ignored. The adults in the room parse data and debate verdicts. In the end those disinterested juror's votes matter, but if they aren't the foreman they get to stay sequestered and don't have decision making power until they figure their shit out and vote the consensus way in order to go home.
    Granted this was Canada and your mileage may vary in a US jury.

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

    It seems the prudent thing to do no matter what to me. Better to be over-prepared then under-prepared.

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    LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

    It seems the prudent thing to do no matter what to me. Better to be over-prepared then under-prepared.

    It doesn’t have a particularly great track record of not preceding an acquittal on the basis of “Cops have a license to kill, what like that spy fellow”

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

    It seems the prudent thing to do no matter what to me. Better to be over-prepared then under-prepared.

    "Prudent" means "acting with or showing care and thought for the future."

    What is a pre-emptive militarized police response showing care about, exactly? Whose future are they thinking about?

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    Typhoid MannyTyphoid Manny Registered User regular
    "prudent" would be not giving people a very compelling reason to want to throw rocks at police and burn down buildings

    cops're spoiling for a fight is all

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

    It seems the prudent thing to do no matter what to me. Better to be over-prepared then under-prepared.

    "Prudent" means "acting with or showing care and thought for the future."

    What is a pre-emptive militarized police response showing care about, exactly? Whose future are they thinking about?

    They are thinking about the future where a verdict could lead to demonstrations or riots. The same way many cities think about this around big sports games. Frankly, they often don't do it enough.

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    MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    "prudent" would be not giving people a very compelling reason to want to throw rocks at police and burn down buildings

    cops're spoiling for a fight is all

    Also a continual reminder of the failure on January 6th.

    Cops can mobilize in force when there's a (perception of a) threat. Ie, black, women, lgbt, and/or leftist.

    But when it comes to white conservatives, kid gloves. See the covid counterprotests too.

    Equal justice under the law. Equal according to Orwellian principles though.

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    MorganV wrote: »
    "prudent" would be not giving people a very compelling reason to want to throw rocks at police and burn down buildings

    cops're spoiling for a fight is all

    Also a continual reminder of the failure on January 6th.

    Cops can mobilize in force when there's a (perception of a) threat. Ie, black, women, lgbt, and/or leftist.

    But when it comes to white conservatives, kid gloves. See the covid counterprotests too.

    Equal justice under the law. Equal according to Orwellian principles though.

    ^

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    HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    "Please act peacefully while a rogue militia who has fully captured municipal necropolitics continues its unchallenged extra-judicial murders."

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    shryke wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Minneapolis and other US cities increase security ahead of Derek Chauvin trial verdict

    oh weird, it's like the state knows they will never be held accountable

    It seems the prudent thing to do no matter what to me. Better to be over-prepared then under-prepared.

    "Prudent" means "acting with or showing care and thought for the future."

    What is a pre-emptive militarized police response showing care about, exactly? Whose future are they thinking about?

    They are thinking about the future where a verdict could lead to demonstrations or riots. The same way many cities think about this around big sports games. Frankly, they often don't do it enough.

    Thinking about demonstrations and... what? How does this make things better than, say, condemning the actions of the officer and firing them and saying (if he is acquitted) that you are disappointed but understand the laws that exist that made it so difficult to convict a police officer who obviously committed some sort of wrong-doing, even if it wasn't determined to be criminal, and so let's change qualified immunity, something like that?

    Don't do what, enough? Deliberately kettle protestors and then barrage them with tear gas and pepper spray, before stomping in and beating them and arresting them en masse?

    What are they "showing care" about by doing this? Because they sure aren't showing they care about what the community thinks.

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