Your view---do cops feel they have free reign now? Or has it always been like this, no cell phones?

[bobbieinok]

What I'm thinking of---

*small VT town St Johnsbury, copsxattack protestors
*Portland(?) protestors lying on bridge as part of a protest, cops attack with massive tear gas

It's like stuff they maybe would have ignored but now they want to show who's boss and they think they can do what they want and no one will care.

You'd think they'd realize people are paying more attention than they ever have before....and they just don't care. They have permission to do whatever they want.

I don't think I'm being very clear---but it seems so bizarre that the attacks are everywhere---there's no attempt to keep the repression quiet. Everything is blatantly out in the open.

They just seem so out in the open, don't give a s**t!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I think between the AA community and liberals, democrats, there is no going back.

They will have to kill us to stop us, and they will try.

[Arazi]

2. Always been this way. Now it's got our attention and we're vigilant to record

[Wellstone ruled]

3. The Cell phone is now the Game Change Agent.

As a lawyer mentioned a few weeks ago,the Police and Sheriff Departments are scared shitless because they let the creation of Warrior Type Officers loose on the Citizenry. And the price tag has no limit in costs.


As he said,we have more Business than we can handle.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. 'Twas ever thus. The idea of the modern police department is rooted in the history of

controlling black people, and protecting property. That's it.

[sunonmars]

5. Its frightening the abuse from police I am seeing on social media.......

Look at this shit, uncalled for

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

6. Always been this way.

All the feel-good anecdotes won't change that for the black community, and other people of color, the police violence you're witnessing now has always been this way.

[Lancero]

7. As much as some people deny it, they have always been this way.

Of course, even back then the people with more brains than air in their heads knew what the police really meant when someone was assaulted or killed because they were 'resisting' arrest, or when the cops later 'found' drugs on them. More and more, people are wising up to the bullshit that police pull, and that's mostly due to everyone having a camera on them these days.

Between all the videos of cops planting drugs on people, or in their vehicles, of cops assaulting people who aren't resisting, of cops executing people as they lay on the ground, the tried and true 'resisting arrest' and 'teh drugs!' excuses don't hold much weight anymore.

Sadly, as the amount of police apologists shows, some people are beyond educating.

[UTUSN]

8. I hate to quote a wingnut (and Chris WALLACE *is* a wingnut), but he said

to a SHITLER flying monkey, "If there had been no video, wouldn't those cops still be on the streets?"

[JustGene]

9. These "dogs" heard the whistle loud and clear

[MoonlitKnight]

10. When is the last time a cop helped you?

Stolen car? Forget about them doing more than taking a report.
House burglary? They won’t even bother to get prints.
Broken down on side of road? Too busy running speed traps.

[scarletwoman]

11. Always, always, always. (nt)