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Koalas March posted:Never call the cops This. The thought of a black man calling an overwhelmingly white police force to make a wellness check on a black woman just boggles the mind.
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Koalas March posted:Yeah he called for a wellness check and has been struggling with the guilt. I can't even imagine. It's almost like giving state-sponsored lawless actors--who famously sit at the roaring confluence of cowardice and prejudice--the levity to use lethal force was a bad idea from the beginning.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:41
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Koalas March posted:Yeah he called for a wellness check and has been struggling with the guilt. I can't even imagine. lol remember when a cop also was called in by one of those life alert services and also shot the old person. (99.99999% the person was also nonwhite)
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Oct 13, 2019 02:46
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LeeMajors posted:It's almost like giving state-sponsored lawless actors--who famously sit at the roaring confluence of cowardice and prejudice--the levity to use lethal force was a bad idea from the beginning. A white woman called the police cause she thought she heard a woman being raped in an alley by her house was killed by the cops that responded. Happened a few months ago. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/justine-damond-shooting Cops hear a sound after clearing the area as safe and their first instinct is to draw their guns and shoot immediately. Cops are cowards, and are bad.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:47
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/yenisafak/status/1183028907693477888?s=20 This is rage inducing in a way I never thought I'd be enraged.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:49
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saintonan posted:This. The thought of a black man calling an overwhelmingly white police force to make a wellness check on a black woman just boggles the mind. I mean, I'm not shocked. Even if you're a fairly strong 'yea no poo poo I don't trust the cops when they talk about arrests and all' person we're kinda taught from a young age that the one job of the cops is to protect us and keep us safe. Even in communities badly hurt by them there's plenty of people who at least think poo poo like 'literally just a wellness check' should be murder free, and it's hard to blame them for having basic faith in the world despite evidence around them. I feel horrible for that guy, I can't imagine how crushing it must feel to have good intents like that and have such a monstrous thing happen.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:50
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saintonan posted:This. The thought of a black man calling an overwhelmingly white police force to make a wellness check on a black woman just boggles the mind. We've come so far.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:56
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PhazonLink posted:lol remember when a cop also was called in by one of those life alert services and also shot the old person. That would be Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.  E: No charges were ever filed, the police internal review deemed the shooting "justified" because "negotiations and ... all non-lethal means were unsuccessful," and the family's civil suit failed. Stickman fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Oct 13, 2019 02:59
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PhazonLink posted:lol remember when a cop also was called in by one of those life alert services and also shot the old person. Romes128 posted:A white woman called the police cause she thought she heard a woman being raped in an alley by her house was killed by the cops that responded. Happened a few months ago. I work 911 EMS and frequently find weapons on and around patients on 'safe scenes.' It's impossible to overstate how often I am surprised at the malignant cesspool of indifference, laziness, and spitefulness I see throughout every local agency.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:59
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saintonan posted:This. The thought of a black man calling an overwhelmingly white police force to make a wellness check on a black woman just boggles the mind. This really feels like you're judging him for not being as smart as you, Internet Person Who's Too Smart To Ever Trust A Cop. Everybody gets the same mass media conditioning about police being the good guys in potentially dangerous situations, and he had no reason to think that a non-emergency wellness check would be so dangerous. That's half a step past "getting kitty out of a tree" in Officer Friendly gimmes for police PR. The fault here is on the cop who couldn't even manage to not gently caress that up, not the guy who called them in good faith.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:09
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Just throw more fuel on the impeachment fire; the more, the merrier. I cannot wait for the reading of evidence prior to the impeachment vote to need a lunch break. Also, serious question that I sometimes wonder about. Why do we not start pushing for police officers using rubber bullets and only switching to live ammo when they're under fire? Police unions and fraternal orders would screech like howler monkeys thrown into woodchippers? It would probably encourage cops to be even more trigger happy because they're using less-than-lethal ammo? Both?
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Oct 13, 2019 03:10
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https://twitter.com/BenMathisLilley/status/1183197679523942401?s=19 https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1183201988441448449?s=19 https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1183046380497129472?s=19 Pretty sure we're eventually gonna find out there's a photo of Trump and Lev at the Overlook Hotel in 1921.
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Space Gopher posted:This really feels like you're judging him for not being as smart as you, Internet Person Who's Too Smart To Ever Trust A Cop. Yeah, and there's no other alternative really in most places. Not to mention the risk of being shot for checking it out yourself because our insane country is awash in readily-available firearms.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:10
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Oct 13, 2019 03:13
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Honesty Trump has associated himself with so many criminals that I can totally buy that he doesn’t recall being photographed with these specific ones.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:17
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Look, I can’t be expected to keep track of ALL the crimes, ok?
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Oct 13, 2019 03:24
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As it's the weekend, let's have some music! A Message to You Rudy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbqiCxEIeEo
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Oct 13, 2019 03:24
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Oct 13, 2019 03:34
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"Hold on, I forgot what line of the Narcissist's Prayer we were on. Let me check..."
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Oct 13, 2019 03:37
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bowser posted:https://twitter.com/BenMathisLilley/status/1183197679523942401?s=19  It's so ridiculous
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Oct 13, 2019 04:02
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Angry_Ed posted:Trump's brain is permanently stuck in the 50s. id put him weird 1890s through 1920s brain. CHEF!!! posted:Just throw more fuel on the impeachment fire; the more, the merrier. I cannot wait for the reading of evidence prior to the impeachment vote to need a lunch break. because american police system is hosed and bean bag rounds can still kill(unless batman fires them out of a tank, than they are always non lethal) so many john deans. Koalas March posted:Yeah he called for a wellness check and has been struggling with the guilt. I can't even imagine. yeah. i was coming home from work today and saw a cop car pulled over and group of people yelling at the cops that "he didnt do anything" or something to that effect, i think i saw a cop with a dude on the ground and one dude over by the side maybe with his hands up. its semi ruralish white area and it was by a 4 way light at 10 at night. when i went past i saw like 5 more cop cars speeding to the scene. guess i will see in the local news.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:24
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so many john deans. Trump might be willing to blow off Congress, but he has involved enough low level people who can't take that risk
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Oct 13, 2019 04:28
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The Glumslinger posted:Trump might be willing to blow off Congress, but he has involved enough low level people who can't take that risk We're on the verge of going from Crime Dilation to a Crime Paradox...
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Oct 13, 2019 04:34
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Furnaceface posted:So he is no longer just a threat to America but the entire world. I remember shortly after he was elected a bunch of dumbasses argued that he wouldn't be able to do a lot of damage because, y'know, the powers of the office of the President are like, TOTALLY LIMITED and stuff! 
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Oct 13, 2019 04:40
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Flesh Forge posted:I remember shortly after he was elected a bunch of dumbasses argued that he wouldn't be able to do a lot of damage because, y'know, the powers of the office of the President are like, TOTALLY LIMITED and stuff! We did have a couple of years where he was too stupid to properly abuse them, and the people around him were smart enough to limit him. But over time he figured out what actually works and how to get rid of people who could say no.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:42
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A guy I know ... I've been having a really hard time talking to him as a friend ever since over a year ago I found out that, years ago, he was a cop briefly. He has no idea why I suddenly became so standoffish and chilly toward him. He's emotionally fragile and I feel terrible about it, but... I don't know what I can do about it. As far as I'm concerned at this point, cops in this country are no better than terrorists. Like maybe he was "one of the good ones" and I should commend him for getting out? Like I should commend him for regretting the Trump vote he cast after being bullied into it by his overbearing Mormon parents? I don't even know. He's the kind of guy it's unfair to heap any kind of judgment on, he completely means well and any damage he does is because he's someone else's collateral damage, but ... after this many news stories I don't have it in me to be that grown-up about this
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Oct 13, 2019 04:44
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I thought that this picture of G-man was the aforementioned photo and was very confused.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:45
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Data Graham posted:A guy I know ... I've been having a really hard time talking to him as a friend ever since over a year ago I found out that, years ago, he was a cop briefly. id be more mad at him for the trump vote than he was cop for a little bit. i am more of a systemic acab more than a literal one so idk. i mean one of my best friends was private prison guard, than he almost got murdered and now he helps the mentally disabled find and keep work.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:48
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LeeMajors posted:I work 911 EMS and frequently find weapons on and around patients on 'safe scenes.' Just want to echo the gently caress out of this. I get called to "safe scenes" where there've been knives, guns, police escorts that clearly aren't even in the vicinity, and once to what was, apparently, an in-progress armed robbery. But, honestly, those are usually better than the ones where the police are taking an active interest. I've had patients given to me handcuffed in positions they couldn't breathe in, I've had patients that the call came in as a bug bite and got there to find the police had clearly beaten the poo poo out of them, etc., etc.. The problem is that even if you document it and report it, nothing ever gets done about it. gently caress the police. gently caress Trump. gently caress Turkey. Today was a motherfucker. Stay safe goons, if you need a break, take one. Hug a dog.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:51
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Dapper_Swindler posted:id be more mad at him for the trump vote than he was cop for a little bit. i am more of a systemic acab more than a literal one so idk. i mean one of my best friends was private prison guard, than he almost got murdered and now he helps the mentally disabled find and keep work. I mean, the Trump vote is why I'm chilly toward him all the rest of the time that I'm not hearing stories about cops being monsters. Thing is, he regrets the vote, even tries feebly to argue with his parents about it. He doesn't regret being a cop. Once he replied angrily to a tweet of the "blue line" flag with the blue line being stripped away to show a Nazi flag underneath, and was all like "I'll always stand up for our boys in blue!!!  " He had no idea he was saying anything remotely controversial
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Data Graham posted:I mean, the Trump vote is why I'm chilly toward him all the rest of the time that I'm not hearing stories about cops being monsters. Thing is, he regrets the vote, even tries feebly to argue with his parents about it. He doesn't regret being a cop. he is an idiot from the sound of it. clearly he was too dumb to keep being a cop.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:59
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We call the cops for wellness checks at work all the time. It's not always a good option but there isn't really an alternative either.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:00
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saintonan posted:So did the white neighbor deliberately call the cops on the black woman knowing there was at least a decent chance the cop would murder her? Calling the cops is attempted murder against whoever is there when they show up
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Data Graham posted:A guy I know ... I've been having a really hard time talking to him as a friend ever since over a year ago I found out that, years ago, he was a cop briefly. If it really is just that revelation without any further context, then, yeah I think you're being kind of weird about it. Edit: Well going by subsequent posts looks like there indeed is some more context here SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Data Graham posted:A guy I know ... I've been having a really hard time talking to him as a friend ever since over a year ago I found out that, years ago, he was a cop briefly. jesus christ dude being a police officer or some other law enforcement position is explicitly seen in culture as a position to help your community, people aspire to be cops when they grow up to do so less as a free pass to go shoot every minority around that just tends to come up when lovely people are cops and there are a lot of lovely people, don't go "what the gently caress you had the GALL to be a cop at some point of your life???" now if he was a lovely cop sure but dude all the vast majority of cops do in this country is hand of a speeding ticket every now and then for some punk rear end flooring it through a schoolzone unilaterally hate all doctors or anyone even associated with the medical profession for the insurance scam that is healthcare costs too, sure
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Oct 13, 2019 05:02
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:We call the cops for wellness checks at work all the time. It's not always a good option but there isn't really an alternative either. We really need some kind of emergency response social worker system
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