Yinko
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I kind of suspect that this wave of BLM is just a way for the Democrats to try to rile up the disenfranchised center voters for the election, I've seen quite a few police shootings that were way worse and got zero public condemnation. I honestly don't really care about what the cops do where it doesn't effect me, so my distaste towards them is entirely about how the way they behave negatively effects me. I think way too much talk about police misconduct is being couched in racial terms, and that honestly kind of obscures the issue.
As a white dude, they can still randomly shoot me and get away with it.
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I have a dog, they can kill my dog with absolutely zero consequences. So long as it "barks or moves".
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DLM! (Dog Lives Matter)
And if someone gets in the way of the bullet to protect their dog as a human shield, too bad.
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The motto is "protect and serve" but they aren't even required to do that.
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Plus all the other unethical stuff they can do in order to make arrests without personal liability.
My point is, yeah, we need police, I'm not advocating the "defund" nonsense either, but they don't need to be dicks. And if they're supposed to be so racist then why is it that I don't trust them to protect me or my best interests?
There are so many more articles I could pull up talking about different angles the cops have used that are pretty questionable. I actually agree quite a bit with some of what people are saying as to the causes as well, militarization. I mean, they literally call us "civilians" which is a term that should only be used as opposed to the military, civilians are everyone who isn't in the military. That sort of thing builds an us-and-them culture, where the 'them' is everyone who isn't a cop.
Yeah, we need law enforcement (I've been places where the law was the military and where the law was just another protection racket, they're not that great), but law enforcement should be better than this. Maybe it is just a few bad apples, a few tough calls, but defending and shielding those doesn't help their image with the public (who they are supposed to be a part of).
As a white dude, they can still randomly shoot me and get away with it.
People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024 | Statista
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with 1,097 civilians, 225 of whom were Black, killed by police in 2022.
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Cops Shoot White Guy in Fresno; Nobody Pays Attention | The Daily Wire
I have a dog, they can kill my dog with absolutely zero consequences. So long as it "barks or moves".
Police in the US shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic”
American law enforcement agencies employ dogs to do their detective work and dirty work. Yet dogs get killed by cops an awful lot.
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Police Shoot Dogs Every 98-Minutes, Shocking Study Says
“This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.” Why are dogs – our best friends, our companions, our children – such a threat that police shoot dogs every 98 minutes; when not one single police officer in recorded history has...
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Federal court rules police can shoot a dog if it moves or barks when officers enter a home
A police officer can shoot a dog if it barks or moves when the officer enters a home, under a new federal court ruling issued this month. The ruling comes after police in Battle Creek, Michigan, sh…
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And if someone gets in the way of the bullet to protect their dog as a human shield, too bad.
Cop Who Accidentally Shot 10-Year-Old When Aiming For Family Dog Can’t Be Sued, Federal Court Rules
Created by the Supreme Court, “qualified immunity” lets government officials dodge federal civil-rights lawsuits.
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The motto is "protect and serve" but they aren't even required to do that.
Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone (Published 2005)
Supreme Court rules that police do not have constitutional duty to protect person from harm, even woman who obtained court-issued protective order against violent husband which made arrest mandatory for violation; decision overturns ruling by federal appeals court in Colorado; it had permitted...
Plus all the other unethical stuff they can do in order to make arrests without personal liability.
My point is, yeah, we need police, I'm not advocating the "defund" nonsense either, but they don't need to be dicks. And if they're supposed to be so racist then why is it that I don't trust them to protect me or my best interests?
There are so many more articles I could pull up talking about different angles the cops have used that are pretty questionable. I actually agree quite a bit with some of what people are saying as to the causes as well, militarization. I mean, they literally call us "civilians" which is a term that should only be used as opposed to the military, civilians are everyone who isn't in the military. That sort of thing builds an us-and-them culture, where the 'them' is everyone who isn't a cop.
Yeah, we need law enforcement (I've been places where the law was the military and where the law was just another protection racket, they're not that great), but law enforcement should be better than this. Maybe it is just a few bad apples, a few tough calls, but defending and shielding those doesn't help their image with the public (who they are supposed to be a part of).
