• @[email protected]
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    1675 months ago

    A pardoned domestic terrorist with a gun and a problem with law enforcement? What could go wrong?

    Here’s to hoping for another 1500 “justice by traffic stops.”

    • @[email protected]
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      335 months ago

      I’d rather they get educated/rehabbed.

      Especially since the people with actual power and greater culpability have only gained from the constant stream of lies that led them to believe this was okay.

  • @[email protected]
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    1195 months ago

    ACA still B, though, even if in this particular case the victim was a terrorist.

    Fascists should be getting shot because they’re fascists, not because cops are violent incompetent bastards who indiscriminately murder people without consequence.

  • @[email protected]
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    905 months ago

    Have none of you any empathy? What about the feelings of this cop who had to shoot one of his brothers because the cameras were on, did you think about that?

    • Flying SquidOP
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      I have a feeling cops would shoot each other all the time if they thought they could. Especially if it’s a white cop shooting a black cop. The whole “brotherhood” thing is performative. I’ve had the misfortune of doing ride-alongs with cops working for a local TV station. They can’t wait to tell you how all the other cops suck.

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        I used to regularly visit a kava bar that happened to become a hang out spot for cops and military people. Honestly they didn’t seem that bad. One guy would come in every day for a kratom we’d take shells together. He played Slay the Spire on his switch, would ask for tips cause he kinda sucked.

        Really they take easily impressionable young men and through the system mold them into something toxic. We become the roles we play. Shakespeare or something

        • @[email protected]
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          85 months ago

          kava, kratom, taking shells, slaying the spire in a switch…

          I’m so confused.

          I feel like one of us had an aneurysm.

          • Edgarallenpwn
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            45 months ago

            “slaying the spire” as in playing the video game Slay the Spire. Taking shells is lost on me, and Kava and Kratom are just legal highs/organic substances/dietary supplements/whatever it is called now.

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        15 months ago

        Not to sound like I’m defending them but are you sure it wasn’t just workplace gossip tier stuff?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          35 months ago

          Maybe if they weren’t cops, yeah. But these are already people willing to murder for pretty much no reason at all. The only thing really stopping them is this stupid “brotherhood” crap which they drop in a second when the other cops aren’t around.

          So sure, maybe it’s just workplace gossip, but I know I’ve never worked in a place where I was expected to always defend my co-workers no matter how heinously they acted.

    • @[email protected]
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      155 months ago

      Thanks to lifelong mental illness I only started developing more than a marginal sense of real empathy in my 30s, and it’s an extremely limited resource. So unfortunately I don’t have any to spare for the police.

      I’m still working on my natural tendancy to paint with a broad brush, which is more than I can say about the cops.

  • @[email protected]
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    765 months ago

    On the one hand, the usual American Police Brutality. On the other hand, one Trump-loving criminal less on the street.

  • Hossenfeffer
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    435 months ago

    “Yes, I am untouchable, the cops can’t do jack sh—”

  • Pistcow
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    375 months ago

    That’s a good start, but we have to speed up that pace.

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    Oh so these guys supported Trump after all? Whatever happened to them being Antifa and BLM?

  • ALQ
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    355 months ago

    I don’t feel good that this was my reaction, but I stand by it:

  • themeatbridge
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    335 months ago

    When Trump sent his mob of terrorists into the Capitol building to stop Democracy, he wasn’t sending his best and brightest.