How does this chief not have the awareness to recognize when it’s in their best interest to distance themselves from a crazy person. The chief In Minneapolis did that when he took the stand in the Chauvin trial.
Ultimately the chief regards only other cops as people and non-police as lesser. Must've really bought in to the sheep/sheepdog meme training.
You could have just said yeah I slept on it and man, fuck that cop, for all the reasons listed, and everyone would have been like look at dbl we love dbl. But you doubled down on the weird copaganda take instead.
I'm not a fan of berating and trolling cops just for being in uniform. I don't like cops but I also don't talk down to anyone thats personally done nothing to me. I don't call them degrading names when I know they can't respond. I don't hide behind a camera. I'm 100% for holding cops like the one above accountable.
This is why we don’t show respect to brownshirts, because this is ultimately how you will be treated if you question them
They weren’t “in uniform.” They were in riot gear and deployed to violently suppress dissent. They had a choice to not do that, but they decided to strap up and confront the citizenry instead. They deserve far worse than the insults hurled at them.
I saw no violence. The only aggressor was the hardo with a camera looking for views. The cops are the ones that retreated. It's rare, but I don't think they were the baddies in that situation.
No. I’m not saying it’s smart. I’m saying they deserve it each and every time it happens. Doing it 1:1 comes with significant risk of assault and illegal detention.
People willingly choosing to be cops after all of the shit that has happened in the US and going to peaceful protests in riot gear “well hold on a min think about the poor wittle cops feelings”
They were in riot gear to quell dissent. It is a chilling effect on free speech. Their presence at a protest, dressed like that, is a promise of state violence.
I had the audacity to say I'm not a fan of a hardo with a camera trolling cops hoping for a reaction to get some views. There's plenty of instances where the cops are the bad guy, I don't think they are here. They took the verbal abuse and retreated. For once, they weren't aggressor. Every time they retreated, he got more aggressive. Every time they showed they weren't going to be aggressive, he got more aggressive and dramatic. It was a performance for him.
If saying that everyone should treat someone with a tick of respect as a human, even if they are wearing a cop uniform, until that person shows they don't deserve respect is now considered licking boots, so be it. Just don't talk to people that way, I don't care who you are or who they are. It's absurd that a cop should have to deal with that just bc he's a cop. A shitty cop? Absolutely. Every cop just for being a cop? No.
Cops fail to treat you with respect due to a fellow American when they show up in riot gear to a protest. That is not in any way a benign act.
the first cop told him to not take a step forward “he said are you gonna shoot me” the cops reply was “yes”. Then a different cop pushes him back and then another cop is restrained. While maybe they didn’t get as violent as they’d normally get, it’s weird to say they weren’t aggressive. It’s a sad state we’re in we anyone can watch that and side with the cops.
If the cop had raised his gun, that would be aggressive to me. There's lots of videos of that happening this weekend. Just look at the camera guy, as soon as the cop on the right tapped the one he was yelling at and they sgarted to fall back, that's when he got really dramatic. He was trolling and amped it up when he knew they weren't going to respond. He was bullying someone he knew wasn't going to respond. And he was filming it to get views. I just don't like seeing any human treat another human like that. I don't like Republicans but I'm not aggressively getting in their face and yelling degrading things at them.
The guy with the camera was the bully? Not the guys in riot gear with guns? Not the guys with the entire power and authority of the state at their back? Not the guys that explicitly showed up to silence protest?