You just know I had to put it out there, if only for the sake of covering all bases. I personally suspect the racial aspect is one where the police just aren't as careful /killful around white suspects, and that gets them killed.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Those are the consequences of Clinton moving the country to a jail for profit system, and Obama arming and training local police with military weaponry.
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It seems Sylvester has already got away with some kind of culpable homicide, or the issue before the appeal court would not be "Can the family sue the government for violating their rights?". Any lawyers care to comment?
I like how "I hate them all" Jerome leaves out bush. Pretty soon he'll be saying there were no terrorist attacks under bush either, nah at least Im sure he's not that stupid.
__________________ Old Pain In The Ass says: I am on a mission from God to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; to bring faith to the doubtful and doubt to the faithful.
That dog looks alive. Those cops are going to get suspended without pay when that pic gets back to their watch commander.
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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Rigorist (aka Mr. vremya) was stopped for a busted headlight in the same place where Philando Castile was shot for having a busted tailight. Rigs got a ticket, Philando got four bullets.
This is some fucked up shit.
Unsurprisingly, Piggington P. McPiggerson was acquitted of all charges today. The cultish post-9/11 worship of law enforcement continues apace.
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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Maryland prosecutors have tossed 34 criminal cases and are re-examining dozens more in the aftermath of recent revelations that a Baltimore police officer accidentally recorded himself planting drugs in a trash-strewn alley.
Disgusting. I'm reminded of something that William Adama pointed out on Battlestar Galactica: Police are [ideally] trained to serve and protect the public. It's a terrible idea to use the military as a police force, because military personnel are trained to seek out and destroy the enemy. So inevitably, if you try to use the military as a police force [or train your police officers as if they were military personnel], they'll think of the public as an enemy to be subdued, not as people they should be serving and protecting.
Here's the actual quote:
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Originally Posted by Commander William Adama:
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
The sad thing is, I'd bet that officer genuinely believed that he was being all kind and sensitive and calming when he assured the woman that he wouldn't shoot her, since she wasn't black.
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A few years back a DJ from a local radio station got a photo of an armored personnel carrier with Jefferson County Sheriff's Department painted all over it. The guy posted the photo on his Facebook page with a message along the lines of "WTF why does the JeffCo Sheriff have a tank?!" The Sheriff's Office responded with something like, "Oh calm down ya big babies. It's not a tank, it's just an APC, and it didn't cost us anything."
I mean, how can you possibly expect the police to protect and serve without a complete array of fully automatic weapons, grenade launchers and armored vehicles?
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Doing research for a graphic I came across a rather horrifying bit of statistic kindly documented by law enforcement themselves.
In 2016 12 K9 officers died from being left in their police cars.
Yes at least 12+ officers are the people that forget the dog in the car on a hot day.