Police Shootings

They say that one bad apple spoils the barrel, and it seems that there are a lot of spoilt barrels around the US.Buffalo is a case in point. You can call the cops who shoved an elderly protestor and refused to help him when he fell and was knocked out bad apples. But the rest of the riot squad who resigned rather than accept that the bad apples needed to be disciplined, and the people who cheered the two after they were charged with assault are a whole spoilt barrel.Removing the bad apples is not enough - though that’s been neglected for far too long. Those spoilt barrels need to be dealt with two.

There are some awful police around. Consider this story The actual events were some months ago, but the summary is:A police officer got a charge of obstructing justice changed to attempted murder, even though the DA was sure it wouldn’t fly.The police then tried to get the defendant’s lawyer arrested and held for 14 days on a completely bogus warrant. (From a small county where the police chief ran everything).Defunding the police might not be the right idea, but it looks like something drastic is needed to deal with the ongoing corruption.

Officer Hit By Bullet During 'Ambush' Actually Shot HimselfSome people.

...was mainly directed against the protestors, and property damage occurred in only a small proportion of the protests. That is not really a surprise to me...

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No, there isn't.... as evidenced by the vitriol poised against All Lives Matter..

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How naive can you get? The whole point of All Lives Matter is to drown the message of Black Lives Matter. That is the reason for the reaction.

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Literal equality is now racist.

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No, opposing attempts to deal with racism is racist. If you can’t understand that then it’s not the world that is at fault.

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Can you at least, just a little, not see how the media is manipulative?

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Maybe you should realise that your preferred media is even more manipulative than the mainstream.

Texas member of Boogaloo Bois charged with opening fire on Minneapolis police precinct during protests over George FloydMaybe the police shouldn’t be so chummy with the far right. Even if too many have a shared interest in violent suppression of BLM.

BellingcatThe map includes police indulging the far right and covering up their identities, neither of which I would class as violence, although both are related to it. The map isn’t available on mobile devices.

Kentucky State Police PowerPoint presentationIf the most-quoted person in your presentation is Adolf Hitler, maybe you should ask yourself why. [qs]One slide, titled Violence of Action, in addition to imploring officers to be ruthless killer[s], instructs troopers to have a mindset void of emotion and to meet violence with greater violence.A line from Adolf Hitler’s fascist and anti-Semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, is featured in the slide: the very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.[/qs]I guess this explains a lot.

A whistleblower from the DHS ReutersAs well as playing down the risk of Russian interference in last month’s election and the dangers of White Supremacists.And there’s lying to Congress, too.