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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The Uvalde Police Department stands with you, ready to offer support and assistance on this solemn day.

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The Uvalde Police Department stands with you, ready to offer support and assistance on this solemn day.

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    Uvalde PD will stand with you, outside for 70 minutes before doing anything of value.

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      they won’t just stand around outside, they’ll also actively block anyone trying to help

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        It was their jurisdiction!

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    We, the Uvalde police department, stand with the community.

    Specifically, we stand behind you in case there is any danger in front of us so we don’t have to risk anything.

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      No, they stand in front of you blocking you from saving anybody. They didn’t hide behind people that wanted to be hero’s, they actively preventing it.

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    • cerement@slrpnk.net
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      we had to wash out so many urine stains

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    God I hope they were too dumb to disable comments.

    • troglodytis@lemmy.world
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      No. They are too afraid of free speech; they block all comments

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    Oh fuck off. We all know cops aren’t our friends. All they do is abuse their power and do their best to find whatever they can to arrest you or fine you, with very few examples of cops who don’t do it. Piss off. Plus, the only thing they’re doing is jack shit for 70 minutes during an emergency cUz ScUrRy

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      Shoulda let them know the perp was black, they seem to get trigger happy in those “situations”

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    They standing waaaaaaayyy in the back

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      Checking their phones with their tough guy wallpapers

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        Standing behind their Punisher car sticker

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      Unwaveringly

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    I’m totally shocked that the comments are turned off for all of their posts

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    This incident alone opened up eyes of lot of bootlickers on the right. Police is not your friend, they won’t “protect” you, you are lucky if they don’t kill your sorry ass

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      Their eyes were opened momentarily before going right back to licking boots the moment students started to protest.

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    If they gave a half of a fuck, they’d have done something. Not in the moment, it’s done already, but in the time since that. But they don’t even aknowledge their documented and publicized all over the world passive role in this shooting. Billions of people know they suck, and they don’t even care to do anything. I don’t know how not to feel a basic shame knowing that about oneself.

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      They intimidated and stalked victims and critics? That’s something!

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        Winnie, stop, that’s not honey at all! Screamed his friends as he stopped eating the brown goo and started to smear it across his face and body.

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      “To serve our self interests and protect our diapers.”

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    “We are here to help in any way we can” from no closer than 500 yards away.

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      • cerement@slrpnk.net
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        when “Fuck the Fire Department!” has a VERY different meaning from “Fuck the Police!” …

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    Eat shit Homer, we all saw the cowardice on display.

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    The Ulvade PD really stood there, while the lunatic murderer was running murdering people in the school.

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    “To serve and protect, within reason of course”

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    This is like if you watched someone choke to death for over an hour, did nothing to stop it, prevented other people from helping, then showed up to the funeral to give a speech about how sad you are.

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    The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

    99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

    Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

    That’s the solution.

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INFO

• A demonstrator’s guide to understanding riot munitions

• Adultification

• Cops aren’t supposed to be smart

• Don’t talk to the police.

• Killings by law enforcement in Canada

• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom

• Killings by law enforcement in the United States

• Know your rights: Filming the police

• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of ‘I can’t breathe’ (as of 2020)

• Police aren’t primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

• Police lie under oath, a lot

• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• NAACP

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

 

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