People who believe in order at any cost I'm guessing? Well they should leave whatever democracy they live in and move to N. Korea. Should be order there.
It's crazy to me as well. I live in a third world country with a notoriously bent police force and even they don't do the sort of things that I see these US police doing. Added to that, it's not even like people are just claiming the police are doing these things, but it's always recorded on camera, and still they face no consequences and continue to act as they do, all while the taxpayers have to pay for whatever costs come up along the way.
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vote democrats!
Keep in mind that if you want to lower police budgets you're a Marxist.
If police were treating right-wing protesters this way, somebody would've snapped and fired an AR-15 into a crowd of police. I'm surprised that this hasn't happened yet in the face of this sort of violence from supposed 'law enforcement' officers.
She is not being handcuffed for not wearing a mask. If she would have either put on her mask or left, she would have been fine. She is being handcuffed for not responding to orders and being a nutter.
Only that crime has absolutely spiked in the areas where the police has been unable to operate.
I dont think you can, America is beyond fecked, and only getting worse.
I wouldn’t disagree. Should have just left the Brits in charge
Defunding the police doesn’t mean disband the police entirely.
Given the way we are going with a corrupt government who would love nothing more than to ban anything that doesn't agree with their world view or prevents them from creaming off their share I'd not say that we are any better
The guy I was responding to was not about defunding the police but disbanding the police.
Sending unarmed mental health response teams (or social worker, whatever) is absolutely fine... until it isn’t. Once someone gets hurt or god forbid killed you can bet the finger pointing, blaming, and lawsuits will surface. And the policies and practices will be re-examined again.
Tazers don't seem to do shit from the video's i've seen so far. Scary video yeah.
That’s a scary video for the female cop but I still don’t understand why a cop in that situation shoots what 8-10 times? He could easily have hit his partner and was lucky not to. If that happened in the UK the officer would have tackled the guy or used his baton. Alternatively, they could have kept their distance until additional cops were on the scene and tackled him together. He wasn’t an imminent threat until they got too close after the tasering.
He tried to fire earlier but his gun had some kind of malfunction/jam, but luckily he cleared it. And his partner was available to shoot too. They continued shooting because the suspect was still stabbing at the female.
Personally I think the takeaway is when you don't stick to the 21 foot rule you're going to get in trouble, but I'm sure there are tactical learnings to be had from every encounter.
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I know that "pigs in blue clothing" is just a metaphor, but this is the police offier who shot Jonathan Price.
I’m pretty sure I could have described this person before I even saw him. Hate to be stereotypical, but this neck fits the profile.I know that "pigs in blue clothing" is a metaphor, but this is the police offier who shot Jonathan Price.
He's lucky his face wasn't caved in after the arrest.
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They're dug in and intrenched now. There will be no coming together to resolve differences after November.
He should be their defence attorney as well. Seems to be good at making excuses for them with his “felony arrest” angle
Not sure how good he'd be at that, considering he spent the interview talking about why they would do it, and at the very end realizes "oh wait maybe I should say they might not have done it".
The American Taliban.
point takenI'm stealing the first one, brilliant.
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