• giacomo@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    how many riot shields did they have?

    im getting major Monty Python vibes from this headline.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      Serial killers decreased as policing militarized. There’s a variety of sociological factors you could point to to explain this. I prefer to think the would have been serial killers joined the police force instead of being chased by the police force

      (Just so we’re clear I don’t actually think this… Fully. But its part of it)

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comOP
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    3 months ago

    I emailed the sheriff, gave them my address and phone number, and called him a fucking cunt.

    [email protected]

    I’m done settling for being upset. Now I am going to be loud and fucking rude all the time to cops and the cheap sluts for violence that marry them.

    • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      and the cheap sluts for violence that marry them.

      60% of cops abuse their spouse. These aren’t “sluts for violence”, these are people who can’t leave because their spouse might kill them or at the very least sic other cops on them.

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      3 months ago

      I understand your anger. Sadly I don’t think directly all this hate towards them in this way will make things any better.

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          3 months ago

          So the thing about qualified immunity is that unless there’s existing precedent that a cop can’t do this, then cops have immunity. Which is a cool catch 22 because you can’t have existing precedent if every cop who’s ever faced charges/lawsuits for a particular thing has gotten off because there wasn’t already a precedent. It’s an Ouroboros of letting cops do whatever they want.

          This is beginning to change in some places, where police chiefs or their higher-ups want nothing to do with overtly shitty cops, but considering these cops have already finished their paid vacation suspension, I don’t think they’ll face any serious charges.

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              3 months ago

              The police are militarized state violence. They enforce the will of the state through the use of violence. That’s not something that can be reformed because it’s inherent to policing. Any effective reform would lead to police not being police.

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    3 months ago

    What the actual fuck. Not a single person involved was like…hey maybe we should be normal human beings and use paper targets?

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    3 months ago

    Isn’t killing an animal with zero remorse one of the big signs of being a psychopath?

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    3 months ago

    People like this should be banned from ever holding a public service job again. They’re in it for the power, not to help people, and they will never change.