Protests following the killing of George Floyd

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SilentWitness said:

From the Unit, not the PD.
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They shouldn't be given the option. They should just be made to resign from the force altogether. You just know they're going to carry on their racist shit even more so now. I would be very concerned having them on the streets if I was a police chief.
 

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DomesticTadpole said:
As long as your white.
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Not really. Many white people (in fact more than black people) are killed by the police in the US. Obviously there is racism, and black people are stopped and killed (per capital) more than the other races, but the US police are brutal regardless of the race.
 

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Revan said:
Not really. Many white people (in fact more than black people) are killed by the police in the US. Obviously there is racism, and black people are stopped and killed (per capital) more than the other races, but the US police are brutal regardless of the race.
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JPRouve said:
Governments aren't going to speak out when their own people are currently accusing them of the same thing. French or british governments for example better shut up and fix their own problems. And in general governments are biased they have allies and won't turn against them, it's a naive if not ridiculous to expect them to somehow comment impartial on everything, they never do even when it concerns non-western countries.
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We saw it best in the case of Catalunya when no Western leader condemned the Spanish governments for the police brutality. No fecking way it is gonna happen with the US.

If only it was Iran. Or Lybia.
 

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The US spends 100 billion each year to fund the police, and 80 billion for the prison system. That is, 180 billion dollars each year for policing.

Absolute madness! Any solution that does not incorporate a massive defunding of the police is not a real solution.
 

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Why do these disgraced cops always look like they failed the audition for the part of Marty in True Detective? Or as if they're white power believers?
 

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RedPed said:
They shouldn't be given the option. They should just be made to resign from the force altogether. You just know they're going to carry on their racist shit even more so now. I would be very concerned having them on the streets if I was a police chief.
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They can’t be forced to resign. That unit is probably getting higher pay or some kind of a specialized unit bonus for being in that unit. It’s voluntary so they can give up that position if they choose. Chief can’t do anything about it.
With that said, it was a very very dumb move in a PR sense. They should’ve just apologized and owned up to their mistake, and hold the officer involved accountable, which the department did by suspending them. The unit should just carry on with their job instead of pulling this show of solidarity stunt that does nothing for their citizens’ safety or their department, especially now that they’ve become a meme for brutality.
 

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SilentWitness said:

From the Unit, not the PD.
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‘Daddy, why did you leave your job?’

‘Well, they suspended two of my friends for pushing a 75 year old man to the ground and making his head bleed’.

Ah, the US police. What a morally unimpeachable institution. Such heartwarming solidarity.
 

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Okay' so in the so called 'Land of The Free,' if a guy gets out of a car that has just been shot at with tear gas canisters and says that there is a pregnant woman in the the car I would expect the police to send over a medic to make sure the pregnant woman was okay.

If the country was not 'The Land of The Free' but a really fecked up dictatorship I would expect the police to realise that the incident was being recorded and at least stop firing tear gas at the car with a pregnant woman in it. Under no circumstances would I expect a right minded human-being to continue firing tear gas into a car that might have a pregnant woman in it.

There is no rational situation that the man telling the police that there is a pregnant women in the car should/would result in further tear gas canisters being shot at the car.
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Are there medics alongside the riot police in these situations?

I think as weve seen from multiple videos the polices tactic is to indescrimantly disapate confrontation. Thats the reality.
 

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Revan said:
Not really. Many white people (in fact more than black people) are killed by the police in the US. Obviously there is racism, and black people are stopped and killed (per capital) more than the other races, but the US police are brutal regardless of the race.
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Interestingly, these All Lives Matters people never mass protest when whites get killed.
 

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giggs-beckham said:
They probably thought he was psychic and was trying to get in their heads. Would be their defence.
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"Following a recent visioning of the documentary X-Men, we were able to identify Mr. X, unfortunately he took control of our minds and made us shoot him."
 

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"In fact, we thought he was Malcolm X."
 

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JPRouve said:
"Following a recent visioning of the documentary X-Men, we were able to identify Mr. X, unfortunately he took control of our minds and made us shoot him."
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Aw I'm glad u got it I was worried about the response.
I literally cant believe this is happening and is being allowed to happen I feel so enraged.
 

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AkaAkuma said:
Are there medics alongside the riot police in these situations?

I think as weve seen from multiple videos the polices tactic is to indescrimantly disapate confrontation. Thats the reality.
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To continue firing on a car that may contain a pregnant woman is aberrant.
 

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America needs a huge wake up call . Guns laws , Terrible Presidents , Police who seem to not know they are there to protect all citizens not just the white folk , Pumping hundreds of Millions into wars and Israel .
Sort your Country out before a civil war happens
 

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So two wankers push an old man over and cause him serious injury, rightly get suspended for it and then 57 off their colleagues resign in protest?! The feck is wrong with these people.
 
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