Police behaving badly

Rhinox

too old for this
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Yeah, in this specific and *very* extreme example, it was the right call. Generally speaking though, I'm also against this kind of 'hands off' killing. We all have a ton of examples where cops misused their standard issue firearms. Equipment like this can very easily be misused and turned into a WMD.
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
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Or they could have just played loud music in his direction and patiently waited for him to run out of drinkable water. Would have cost more than just blowing him up, though. C4 is cheaper than paying all those officers to surround the place for weeks.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
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Or they could have just played loud music in his direction and patiently waited for him to run out of drinkable water.
This. Unless this guy had the capacity to level the building he was in or something, it sounded like he was the one trapped in there with them. There are more solutions to problems than just killing people, and being incapable of realizing that is why the cops in this country suck.
 

abates

unfortunate shark issues
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Or they could have just played loud music in his direction and patiently waited for him to run out of drinkable water. Would have cost more than just blowing him up, though. C4 is cheaper than paying all those officers to surround the place for weeks.
How much did the bomb robot cost though? Those things are not cheap, and I assume that they do not come out unscathed after the C4 explodes.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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Dude, it's an RC car with c4 duct taped to it. Lockheed is charging 100K a pop, but you can macguyver one for 50 bucks. Part of the problem is the overt militarization of police forces because the arms industry wants to push this years drone with go faster stripes.
 

PrimalxConvoy

NOT a New Member.
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The fearless Black campaigner who helped to scrap the UK’s ‘sus’ law.
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Mavis Best, who died earlier this month, spent more than 50 years fighting racist policing and other discrimination. Despite her MBE, she never became part of the establishment.

"...Black youths as young as 12 were routinely arrested for activities as innocuous as waiting for a bus or looking in a shop window. In many cases, these youths – predominantly male – were taken off the street and physically assaulted, either in the back of a police van or at the local station. Often they would be detained for days, without their families’ knowledge. And often they would be wrongly accused of a crime such as theft or conspiracy, in which case it became their word against the police’s. More than 90% of convictions in sus cases were on the strength of police testimony alone.

“The police was brutal. You’d go to the police station and you were terrified. When you tried to meet any authority, you were made to look very small. You were made to feel less of a person. It was basically ‘white right’.”

“You have to cast your mind back to a time in which it was rare to challenge directly the evidence of the police,” says Boateng. “But a group of us came to the view that we had to be prepared to call them liars. We had to be ready to challenge them and bring home to magistrates that they themselves were being watched by the community..."

(Source: - https://www.theguardian.com/society...ck-campaigner-who-helped-to-scrap-the-sus-law )
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Part of the problem is the overt militarization of police forces because the arms industry wants to push this years drone with go faster stripes.
And the source of that problem is that "the arms industry" is even a thing in the first place. I've said before that military contractors should be replaced with not-for-profit firms owned and operated by the government, and you just gave me another excellent reason why.
 

Rhinox

too old for this
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I've been watching this channel quite a bit lately. I've learned a lot about the laws surrounding interactions as well as what not to do no matter what side you're on. It's a good channel.
 

NovaSaber

Well-known member
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The Columbus, Ohio police chief defended an officer seen high-fiving a member of the violent white supremacist group Proud Boys during a protest of a drag show. The show was canceled over security concerns after organizers alleged local police refused to provide security for the event.

While the event was canceled, over 50 right-wing protesters dressed head to toe in combat gear and carrying massive weapons showed up, making the neighborhood look like a warzone.
 

Rhinox

too old for this
Citizen
From that chief's statement, he knows exactly how that looked. His bullshit excuse of 'diffusing the situation' does not hold water. At no time has a show of solidarity like that ever been used to 'diffuse' anything. No, that's to signal "we're on your side".
Absolute bullshit and demonstrative that the rot in that police department goes all the way to the top.
 


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