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if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?
Spazz wrote:Well Look at the news for the last few months arlos and it no longer looks like they give a fuck about witnesses and arent above arresting them and taking they phones as well
if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?
That about says it all. When it comes to cops they dont believe in your rights and will fuck you up in a real hurry for the slightest infractions.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Jay wrote:Clearly representative of every cop ever.
brinstar wrote:Jay wrote:Clearly representative of every cop ever.
that is a bullshit comeback and i'm calling you the fuck out.
first of all, spazz's quote is a direct paste from a recent article in the WaPo written by an actual cop. if that anonymous cop author didn't want to give people the invitation to generalize all cops as quick to respond to anything but total submission with a lightning-quick hail of state-sanctioned (and often lethal) violence, maybe he shouldn't have fucking written that article.
that being said, it's still fucking NOT AT ALL representative of every cop ever. i know good cops, they do exist. they perform a difficult job with compassion and integrity, they care about their community, they loathe using force, and they are nothing AT ALL like that army-gear cop who aimed an assault weapon at a journalist and said "i will fucking kill you" (that cop has since been suspended, though i'm sure it's "with pay" - what a joke), or the one who shouted at peaceful protesters "bring it, you fucking animals", or the piece of shit in oakland who shattered an iraq vet's skull with a tear gas canister and then tossed a stun grenade at his unconscious body when people went to help. the point is that that quote is symptomatic of a system that ALLOWS for such evil and violence-prone cops to exist, and it's irrelevant whether they're far outnumbered by cops that DON'T oppress/brutalize/subjugate.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Arlos wrote:Officer in Ferguson caught on live video pointing his weapon at unarmed press, threatening to kill them. He had to be restrained by other officers before he lowered his weapon. If this is how police there behave WHILE BEING FILMED, how bad are they when there's no witnesses?
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fergus ... -kill-you/
Anytime ANYONE is given authority and power above the rules of the common person these things WILL happen. It doesn't mean that those rules should be taken away. That authority is required for our protection and most of the time, it works. You will have people though, who take that extra authority, or power, and abuse it and use it to subjugate people through prejudice and otherwise. I get why you'd have a problem with that. I have a problem with that. What's your answer?
Spazz wrote:Its not that I think everyone of them is bad bad. Its that me and tugg spent a lot of time where its not nice white and affluent and those cops can get very nasty very quickly. Ive had to call em Ive hd to work with enm and I treat them and talk to them same as everone else. Im not blind though and I can see that theres a lot of abuse of power.Anytime ANYONE is given authority and power above the rules of the common person these things WILL happen. It doesn't mean that those rules should be taken away. That authority is required for our protection and most of the time, it works. You will have people though, who take that extra authority, or power, and abuse it and use it to subjugate people through prejudice and otherwise. I get why you'd have a problem with that. I have a problem with that. What's your answer?
jay you are really makin me mad with you devils advocate schtick. Heres what I want. Cameras on every officer, The stop of the police useing military tactics for small problems , and last but not least hold them accountable for breaking the law. Stop giving them a paid vacation and start sending them to jail. Im sick of the police go to respone being extreme violence and then called out on it they talk about how hard and how dangerous there jobs are. Crime is at an all time low. Shootings are at an all time low...... so why do the police need more and more violent tactics body armor and heavy weapons ? They dont and its the mentality that is leading to the us vs them mentality of a lot of urban cops.
While back jay we talked about Chris dorner on this site. Do you remember the police shootin up the wrong truck ? Do you think those officers are still on the force ? Thats why Im not to keen on cops behaviors like that and a lack of accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKt2Mhk73J4
I dont know why i cant get that to link right but why dont you take a look at that.
Its not every cop by a long shot but theres too many of these incidents happen and the police really need to be reined in. Im not calling you wrong per say jay just that I think youve lived a nice life in nice places and havent been exposed to it cept on tv so you dont feel its out there like I do
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Harrison wrote:inb4 video isn't real because it wasn't posted by <insert news source of choice here>
Harrison wrote:He wouldn't be pacing back and forth. He'd be unconscious.
brinstar wrote:Harrison wrote:inb4 video isn't real because it wasn't posted by <insert news source of choice here>
you have to admit the other link made a LOT of assumptions based on some very unclear angles
plus the entire "blowout orbital fracture" thing was a total hoax, some guy ripped off an xray from the university of iowa, photoshopped out the uni logo, and tried to pass it off as Wilson's skull
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
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