It is now clear that we have to remove the right wing thugs from our law enforcement nationwide

[Botany]

North Carolina: police pepper spray lawful protesters including children and a women on a
wheelchair

Ft. Worth Texas: Police protect Boogaloo Bois trying to intimidate African Americans voting.

Texas: Police don't do jack shit when a pro-Trump pick up truck pack tried to run a Biden bus off the
road.

I have always supported law enforcement and I have some good friends who are or were cops
but we can no longer abide these people in their current positions. It is almost like back in the
civil right movement days in the south when many of the police and sheriff departments had
active Klan members on their staffs.

[beachbumbob]

1. unless Democrats win at state and local levels, little will be done

[luv2fly]

2. And cops wonder why some people don't like/respect them.

[Mister Ed]

3. When apologists say "It's just a few bad apples"...

Why doesn't anyone remind them that the full saying is, "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch"? Those "bad apples" must go or they corrupt an entire force, or ultimately the entire police culture.

The FBI has been warning for many years of concerted efforts by militant right-wing white supremacist groups to infiltrate police forces. Now those efforts are bearing fruit.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. The sheriff for my area ran unopposed again.

Republican, as usual.

[dalton99a]

5. White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states
Sam Levin in Los Angeles @SamTLevin
Thu 27 Aug 2020 10.13 EDT

White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.

The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

Police in Sacramento, California, in 2018 worked with neo-Nazis to pursue charges against anti-racist activists, including some who had been stabbed, according to records.

And just this summer, German writes, an Orange county sheriff’s deputy and a Chicago policeman were caught wearing far-right militia logos; an Olympia, Washington, officer was photographed posing with a militia group; and Philadelphia police officers were filmed standing by while armed mobs attacked protesters and journalists.

...

[theaocp]

6. It's almost like we're at the point where they need to be

defunded or something. Or maybe the times aren’t desperate enough.