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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKennedy: If you hate cops just because they're cops... then next time...call a crackhead."
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Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)COL Mustard
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Karadeniz
(22,492 posts)SledDriver
(2,058 posts)The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)I want police who behave viciously and use deadly force when it is not warranted charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced to substantial prison time.
I particularly want police who hold racist views booted out of the profession of law enforcement.
If this corn-pone cowboy thinks wanting vicious bullies punished and racists fired amounts to hating police, he is saying police are vicious bullies and racists.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If he wanted to.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)1. NOBODY is protesting because they "hate cops just because they're cops." We want corrupt murdering pigs to stop murdering people. Is that too much to ask, buddy?
2. Is that the choice to which Kennedy wants America to be limited? Either let the corrupt murder-pigs run wild or "call a crackhead?" Sounds kinda anti-American to me, buddy.
I get it, the corrupt murder-pigs maintain the status quo, the scales tipped in Kennedy's favor. But is he stupid enough to believe that will last forever?
Jirel
(2,017 posts)Plenty of cops sampling the wares in the evidence room, or who know all the dealers in town.
sop
(10,150 posts)homespun common sense. His pithy statements often contain straw men arguments, false dilemmas, circular reasoning and red herrings. His constituents eat this shit up.
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Bettie
(16,086 posts)with a "crackhead" for a senator instead of him.
Skittles
(153,142 posts)omits entirely the option of IMPROVING the situation that exists
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)If you hate Black people just because they are Black people, you are a straight up racist.
Note: Crack head is a dated term and evocative of...inner city black people. Notice he didn't sake coke head--they're white. He's essentially setting up Cops as equivalent to crack heads, or as opposite numbers. Either way, he's a racist piece of shit who is full of shit whose opinions I could give two shits about.
Vote this ass hat out, too.
argyl
(3,064 posts)They may find the perpetrators at a later time and might save someone else a lot of grief.
But if you need help immediately don't expect the cops to come to your rescue, guns a' blazing. You're on your own.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)More white people commit crimes than Black people, that is a statistical fact based on the sheer number of white people vs. Black people. They represent ~15% of US population, and that percentage has remained steady for centuries. More white people are on SNAP and disability than Black people. More white people than Black people get off scott free for far more heinous crimes. Matt Gaetz is exhibit A.
Black people do not commit more crime, they are arrested for more things that are called crime because a Black person is doing it (see meme listing all the ways unarmed young black men have died at the hands of police who "feared for their lives."
White cities counties and state governments pass laws designed to lock up poor people for daring to try to survive in abject poverty. Criminalize the symptoms while they spread the disease. Prevent Black people from earning any money at all for 350 years, while their labor benefited and enriched whitey; then Jim Crow them and sharecrop them and make sure they can't make any money even when they are free. Then, when black communities do thrive and make economic gains, whitey burns those cities to the ground. Another fifty years goes by, and Black People exercise their right to vote, and they can earn money, and they enter the professional and political class, and they succeed, and one of their own does pull himself up by his bootstraps and take advantage of the opportunities given him, and worked hard, and grew up to be president, the whiteys have lost their collective minds--from electing the former guy as a direct reaction to a successful Black presidential administration and the subsequent four year escalation of white animosity and anger and permission to act out violent racial hatred and hostility.
No one hates all cops because they are cops. People hate assholes, bullies, incompetents, and racists for being assholes, bullies, incompetents, and racists. Simple as that.
Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)What a phony, putrid, poser.
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pecosbob
(7,534 posts)In Houston in the early 1970s there were several controversial police killings that so outraged the community that many people began firing at police whenever they saw them. A number of police were killed at traffic stops. Police only patrolled in convoys of squad cars for over a year.