• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Yeah. Doesn’t matter. They’re convinced it’s always self defense or the victims fault. You cannot logic these people out of their emotions.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    In my eyes the role of the cop is NOT to punish. The cop is there to stop the bad situation and bring them before the PEOPLE. They will decide guilt and the judge will decide punishment.

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      Would be cool if they were trained in de-escalation.

      It’s the whole point of the Defund The Police movement, as every time a cop showed up, they only amplified the violence and threat.

      Someone off their meds, get the cops called, and now you have a dead person.

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        I always liked the idea that got thrown around during the Defund the Police movement that every cop should be partnered with a social worker skilled in psychology. Basically for every brawn is a brain situation.

        Wouldn’t be perfect(nothing ever is) but it would be a hell of a lot better than now. Though I suppose it’s all moot now that America has gone full NAZI. Now the only things that will make a positive change for the people is physically removing them from this earth until the government fears the people again.

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      That’s the fairy tale we teach to perpetuate the ugly reality. Since the late 19th century the police have evolved to replace the privatized security wealthy magnates used to have to hire at their own expense.

      Instead of spending a small fortune to hire the pinkertons or burns security, the wealthy of America developed a way to socialize the expense of systemically abusing workers and protecting the status quo.

      It’s pretty obvious what the intent and purpose of police really are when you look at the chain of custody of people facing trial. During the process of arrest and sentencing, police officers have the lowest education requirement but the most leeway to influence your future.

      Prosecutors, clerks, and judges all have set rules that dictate the limitations of their decisions. However, the police have the ability to simply not arrest anyone, or arrest a completely innocent person. What else is an attack dog without a trainer or leash but a weapon of terror?

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    Ffs the fact I even forgot this obvious point because so busy being pissed at the blatant lies, fascist takeover, and murder.

    The tweet is from 2023 and still relevant 🙃

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      I once read a novel written around the time of the Kent State killings.

      It was a potboiler thriller by a gunloving conservative writer, Donald Hamilton.

      In it, a government assassin bemoans the sheer incompetence of the National Guard troops.

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    Violent fucking lunatics. The US policing system is utterly fucked, and effective paramilitaries like ICE doubly so.

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    The bootlickers will happily die on their knees knowing they complied so hard and were as non-resistive as possible.

    They seem to get off to being cucked by cops

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      Ah to be a bootlicker.

      Phase 1: “They have a criminal history/illegal.”

      Phase 2: “They threatened our boys in blue!”

      Phase 3: “They should have complied.”

      Phase 4: “Well they shouldn’t have been there.”

      Phase 5: (leopard ate their face)

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    Ross must go to jail for this. If not this might be the start of the Great Uncivil War.

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    If we continue this way, maybe we’ll even get to “all life is sacred” and “thou shalt not kill”! 👀

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      Eh, you get removed first, being identified as guilty can come later.

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        No no, don’t you see, the act of the killing is how they identify people as guilty. It’s like wave function collapse in quantum physics — or “Schrödinger’s criminal” to put a pithy spin on it. Because the police only kill bad people who deserve to die, then anyone who is alive could be good or bad, but we don’t know for certain until the police kill them. If the police accidentally shot at a non-criminal, then they’d be fine — the non criminal body has ways of shutting that whole thing down

        (I really should have to say this, but the internet is dark and full of bootlickers, so /s)

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      Once you’re identified as guilty

      If only we had a process that would be due for all people… Oh well, just let the cops decide I guess because they’ve never fucked up. Smart.