George Floyd / May 2020 USA Protests Megathread — Page 5

It's a job. I recommend that they do leave. I long for the world Glenn Kirschner describes with such ease:

A police force that undergoes EXTREME VETTING before being hired;



EXTREME TRAINING that is ongoing,



and EXTREME ACCOUNTABILITY, including but not limited to a national database of every cop fired for disciplinary reasons in an effort to cut down on the many bad apples just moving to another city and starting their abuse all over again.



My line on the good cop thing is: "One good apple does not refresh the whole rotten bunch." Good cops have been as failed by the system as black citizens. It is clear that the way things stand it is apparently impossible for these good cops to do anything about the bad ones among them.



Defund, redesign, restructure.

dented146 said: "So right now, in many big cities, mayors and other leaders are calling for police departments to be stripped of some of their funding in order to have the money used for social programs. In the meantime cops are being assaulted with bricks, bottles, knives, etc. Many men and women who are just trying to protect people and propertyand have done nothing wrong are being injured and vilified from all sides.

If I was cop right now I would just want to walk away, give everyone the finger, and say screw you, protect your own f....g city. See how that works out for you.


Police departments are overfunded. The budget of the NYPD is 6 billion dollars. 1 billion dollars of that is supposed to be for community programs which the NYPD sucks at running. They could easily cut the budget by 1 billion and give that funding to community organizations that could make an actual impact.


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Quite a contrast between fantasy and reality.

At first I thought the display was tacky. But, I quickly came to my senses and realized that DC's Mayor Muriel Bowser is on some next-level "ish". As we say round da way, she got game. She has trolled the f*ck out of Trump.

DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza

Updated On: 6/5/20 at 03:46 PM

TotallyEffed said: "The video of that poor old man being violently shoved to the ground by cops has me absolutely speechless with rage and sadness."



As I understand, all of the 50-plus officers in that unit have resigned from the unit (not the police force) in support of those two officers.

The two officers were suspended without pay. Today, they were charged with second degree assault. At the end of the hearing, a large crowd of police officers, firefighters and others gathered outside the court house to cheer and applaud the officers and, again, to show their support. NOT support for the poor gentleman who was violently assaulted by the police, but for the officers who pushed him backwards to the ground.

I am filled with "rage and sadness" as well.

Updated On: 6/6/20 at 01:20 PM

and China looks on and laughs.

Bail for the cop who casually killed Mr. Floyd has been set at $1.25 million. The next hearing is scheduled for June 29th.

Pauly3 said: "So the mods are going to let a vile suggestion such as this survive (six days now) just because it's cleverly disguised?"

I’m surprised too, but completely unashamed.

That being said, my post was an expression of anger, not something I can own in an intellectual way. For one thing, I know that any attempt to use force to make a change would result in a terrible backlash that would involve a loss of general liberty and, probably, life. For another, I’m resolutely opposed to capital punishment, and that has to apply even to the vilest among us.

Updated On: 6/8/20 at 08:30 PM

Same As It Ever Was said: "This e-book is currently free.


The End of Policing"



This defunding of police and the mainstream hate being directed at law enforcement across the United States is both unreal and infuriating.

Unfortunately, all of the great strides that we've made as a nation in stamping out racism since the 1960's has been written out of history practically overnight. On this 4th of July, instead of celebrating this nation's independence from British rule, many across social media are participating in misguided #AllCountriesMatter movements, which seek to ignore the importance of this day to this great nation and instead pay homage to nations that have nothing to do with anything related to this day in American history.

You know we're in trouble as a nation when these movements go viral and the same people who shout you down for misguidedly uttering "All Lives Matter," regardless of your intentions, are now unwittingly guilty of the exact same thing by chanting "All Countries Matter" on a day that is meant to celebrate independence, not mindless hypocrisy.