Also, why is all harm short of killing someone considered acceptable when police do it?
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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Yup. The average person would be charged, but qualified immunity means these assholes have carte blanche to murder at will.
As always, ACAB.
A lot of statistics about dangers in society seem to be entirely centred around deaths. Which is understandable of course, but underplays the many other harmful outcomes that can occur short of that.
You could argue very convincingly that some non-fatal injuries lead to a fate worse than death.
Daily reminder: ACAB
PEB: Policing Enables Bastards
PEB allows for one (out of 700k cops in the US) or more e.g. trans BIPOC officers to try to be the change from the inside without insulting them in the meantime.
Could be a stupid plan (e.g. if that approach is impossible). But a stupid person isn’t necessarily a bastard.
Also PEB considers it takes a while to fire whistleblower/“good” cops, and similarly doesn’t insult them during their firing process (insult to injury).
…am I being too literal with the word “All”?
We can talk all day about lack of training or inability to de-escalate but at the end of the day those people died because a cop wanted them dead. The problem is the cops.
Grateful to be living in a country where police don't even carry firearms regularly - New Zealand
"National reckoning on policing" MY FUCKING ASS. I will never understand people who think just cuz it was on the news more than a week that some great change came of it.
Acab motherfuckers
I watched an execution in Tacoma last summer.
Guy was running from the cops in a truck, flips a bitch, does some light bumper cars off traffic tries to take a corner, right in front of us (standing in a parking lot, just came out of the store), too fast, not buckled and gets thrown out of the truck which careens into a gas station.
Dude is obvs high. Cops pull up, state patrol, non lethal guns out, they're hiding behind their cars. Dudes sitting in his ass, throws them the finger and tells them to fuck off, rolls like 3 times over and dumps his stash in the storm drain. It's clear as day what he did.
There's a girl in the same parking lot screaming, "He's unarmed!" Over and over and over again.
The local police arrive and they swarm the guy with tasers. We were leaving at that point, I counted 5 cops actively tasing him.
Heart attack. Natural causes according to the police report.
Regardless of the chase, regardless of his indignation, none of that equals lethal force. It's as if we took all Americas serial killers and put them on payroll.
There is no situation I can imagine where I would call the police. I'll handle my safety myself, I'm 45min away from the nearest station anyway. There's no protection they're offering that is worth the risk they themselves bring to me.
ACAB. Fuck the police. Fuck this entire society, bring the boogaloo. No one would look around and decide this is a society they would create. No one. It's way past time to stop fighting for it.