How's The Rioting Where You Are?

[Nitro Express]

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Pat is so old he probably would fall apart if he farted hard.

[Terry]

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Pat is so old he probably would fall apart if he farted hard.

He'd be doing all the rest of us a favor were that to happen.

[ZahZoo]

They should be, but we had 57 idiots quit the Emergency Response Team in solidarity with the two assholes...

They just highlighted the pervasiveness at the heart of the problem that people are protesting over... Bad move by those 57 officers.

[ZahZoo]

If nothing else, when are these pricks going to realize they can't do that shit any more now that everyone has a video camera in their pocket? I think the numbers for police killing 'suspects' is the same as it always has been, the game changer is quite often they are doing it on video now.

Bottom line... a lot of the brutality should not be happening with or without cameras/video present. Most cases it's not even warranted. Some cases, yes it's necessary, but the lines are being drawn pretty clearly.

Law enforcement needs to wake up and realize the shifting tides... equal justice will now be swiftly applied to everyone... even those in uniforms with badges.

[Nickdfresh]

Well Nick at least your cops are equal opportunities bastards.

Indeed. Some of the worsts ones work in the Erie County Holding Center, and they do indeed seem to murder white inmates along with the black ones.

https://buffalonews.com/2017/08/20/list-erie-county-inmates-died-since-howard-became-sheriff/

And the curious 2012 case of Eric Metcalf who suffered from an acute mental illness and was beaten to death...

The two officers have been charged with a felony assault due to the victim's age (75)...

The 57 Police who quit the ERT said they did so because the Union pressured them by saying they wouldn't provide any defense if police are sued or charged for anything connected to the riots. On the bright side, violence and looting seems to have dropped to almost nil here and most other places...

[Nickdfresh]

They should be, but we had 57 idiots quit the Emergency Response Team in solidarity with the two assholes...

There are rumors of a mass firing the might happen and since the current local COVID unemployment rate is around 20%, they may get plenty of candidates to replace them...

[Nitro Express]

Indeed. Some of the worsts ones work in the Erie County Holding Center, and they do indeed seem to murder white inmates along with the black ones.

https://buffalonews.com/2017/08/20/list-erie-county-inmates-died-since-howard-became-sheriff/

And the curious 2012 case of Eric Metcalf who suffered from an acute mental illness and was beaten to death...

The two officers have been charged with a felony assault due to the victim's age (75)...

The 57 Police who quit the ERT said they did so because the Union pressured them by saying they wouldn't provide any defense if police are sued or charged for anything connected to the riots. On the bright side, violence and looting seems to have dropped to almost nil here and most other places...

Angry rioting tends to burn out pretty quick on it’s own. Being a police officer is a tough job. If you have the skills to be a good one you can do something else and make more money and not have your life or your mental health on the line. It’s all about having decent people and training but training is expensive and some cities are lax on that. There are people who are just naturally wired to be police officers who want to “protect and serve”. I’ve known a few of those and even rode the beat with some. But I’ve known a few who have gotten burned out and do something else.

[Seshmeister]

In a typical Democrat approach of compromise, I hear Joe Biden is saying that Martin Luther King should have been shot in the leg...

[Nickdfresh]

Angry rioting tends to burn out pretty quick on it’s own. Being a police officer is a tough job. If you have the skills to be a good one you can do something else and make more money and not have your life or your mental health on the line. It’s all about having decent people and training but training is expensive and some cities are lax on that. There are people who are just naturally wired to be police officers who want to “protect and serve”. I’ve known a few of those and even rode the beat with some. But I’ve known a few who have gotten burned out and do something else.

So they should just beat people to death with impunity? Attack journalists that are in no way a physical threat? Probably at least two, maybe three of the officers that were culpable in the murdered of George Floyd were probably otherwise decent people in a very awful situation led by a fucking dickbag. But a lot of what goes on in these institutions prevents them from speaking up or doing much about what at least two of them apparently didn't like. If one of the rookies grabs and physically stops Minnesota Reichsmarshal Training Ofc. Herr Derek Chauvin from essentially choking a man to death, they are fired or severally admonished and driven to quit (i.e. Serpico) or they plod through their jobs while effectively having to cover for the really bad ones. There are dept's in the country that are far worse than others and have systemic issues of not just violence, but of completely unethical and illegal behavior and there seems to be near impunity for it. For instance, there is a town in Louisiana where the cops feel free to lock up witnesses to crimes to insure they testify, they routinely violate civil rights and were investigated by the Justice Dept' under Obama, but Jeff Sessions basically rolled everything up and did nothing because most of the victims were black (but not all), and it was the Obama Admin Justice Dept. that investigated it...

Yes there are good cops, but the system is that they are largely unable to to do much in most cases. Most cops earn a pretty fucking good living, even the lowest paid ones have by contemporary standards generous retirement pensions and benefits most other occupations don't offer anymore. You factor in overtime and you're looking at six figures for many and the ones that have the easiest suburban jobs earn the most. So, yes I respect most police and mainly have had decent interactions with them. But you also have to balance that with places like Baltimore, you can say yes there is a high crime rate and policing there is tough. But by the same token you had cops there that recently had been issued body cams that were so used to planting fake evidence to get convictions they sloppily incriminated themselves on camera:

[Nitro Express]

Police chief’s run their police departments. Police chief’s are appointed by ELECTED mayors. Sheriffs are ELECTED directly in county elections. Voting is better for your community than tearing it up with riots. Nothing is dumber than an angry mob and I’ve never seen anything good come out of one.

[Seshmeister]

So you agree the Boston Tea Party was a mistake?

[Nitro Express]

So you agree the Boston Tea Party was a mistake?

That was a tax revolt. They threw the East India Company’s tea into the harbor because they didn’t want to pay the stamp tax. They didn’t set fire to the city, riot and loot the local merchant’s shops.

[FORD]

Actually it was more about the British East India Company wanting a complete monopoly on the tea business within the colonies.

If you wanted an equivalent protest today, you would probably toss Amazon's "biodomes" into Puget Sound.

but of course that wouldn't an environmentally viable solution. Just throw Bezos himself in instead.

[Seshmeister]

I don't know if it's old already but I only heard today.


'Why did the chicken cross the road?'

'To hold up a bible outside a church.'

[FORD]