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(8,626 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,395 posts)Doesnt reform itself.
WHAT A LOSS!!!! An educator impacts students for life.
pandr32
(14,272 posts)...husband, son, brother, cousin, nephew, uncle, friend, etc.
ck4829
(37,761 posts)soldierant
(9,354 posts)for I don't know how long - longer than I've been alive and I'm 77.
We have to figure out how to say it louder and better, so that it has an effect.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,239 posts)ugh
Diamond_Dog
(40,577 posts)Yeah riiiight
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)
Martin68
(27,749 posts)SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)Delphinus
(12,522 posts)They are murderers.
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)Exactly!
IcyPeas
(25,475 posts)electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)Aarrrggggggg!
What a hideous way to (besides being) be Murdered!
His family, friends, colleagues, students!
Prison for these deranged racist bastards!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,782 posts)After 911, most cops have been trained to exercise tactics designed to fight serious terrorism attacks and we gave them the equipment to do it. Unfortunately, they've translated that brutal "shoot to kill" training into many routine police activities, mostly driven by shear fear and male ego. Racism and misogyny in the mix then becomes very dangerous and toxic to the public.
After a while, this militaristic attitude becomes ingrained and difficult to reverse. They need to be re-programmed but always held accountable..
It feels good to call for arrests and dismissals but that won't bring people like this young man back. The family will sue and probably get a big payoff but that won't bring this young man back either.
They also need very frequent and improved anti-racism training.
KY
live love laugh
(16,383 posts)As a former trainer/educator, some things cant be trained.
Its the accountability piece that is missing.
Even if they are trained, they still have qualified immunity and corrupt unions that interfere with accountability.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,782 posts)I feel our community members are far too isolated from the workings of our police forces even though they are an absolute necessity for a civil society.
Some other things that should help:
1. Police recruiters should avoid gung-ho and gun-nut type personalities, as those are almost certain to come with prejudicial baggage, and recruits with hints of psychopathic personality profiles should be avoided at all cost.
2. Those so-called "internal incident investigations" should have mandatory civilian participation on the investigative boards and have mandatory periodic public reporting required.
3. Police need better weapons for disabling violent suspects other than by using lethal force.
4. Our police forces need effective PR campaigns to inform the public of the thousands of good things they do every day, whereas we typically only see the bad events.
On the other side of the fence, our general public needs better ways to connect in a community environment with our police, such a community meet-and-greet gatherings. Cops exist in their bubble and we in ours and that must end.
After all, cops are of us, they come from us, and they ARE us just as are all government employees.
KY......
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)... involvement in the community to service record counts.
The police who screw up the relationship in the community they live in wont lost long
KPN
(17,377 posts)remove it, you starve it, you nuke it. Perhaps you can target specific elements and thereby reform or at least make it go into remission?
judesedit
(4,592 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,691 posts)and honest to God I have no idea how to actually get rid of it. Nothing seems to work.
Otterdaemmerung
(136 posts)By challenging the police department to produce a positive result from a drug test administered by an outside disinterested party. When they can't produce it, sue the ever-living crap out of them for murder, slander, defamation of character, and falsifying documents.
SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)Jarqui
(10,909 posts)Video after video like this.
When will it stop?
Another young black man is dead from excessive force after pleading for his life.
Very upsetting and disturbing ... sickening.
I've run out of things to say. It has all been said so many times before.
whathehell
(30,468 posts)FakeNoose
(41,634 posts)The guilty cops MUST answer for this citizen's needless death, of course. But there are many others with the same mindset. All the racist cops must be purged, the rest need to be retrained. This horror must end.
Deuxcents
(26,915 posts)No amount of training can change racist DNA
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)And were even forced into them (look up LAPD Consent Decree). It's like foreigners trying to rule Afghanistan--nothing works because the system there is so broken.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)Nazis, thugs, sadists, murderers!!!
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)All of my life.
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)The Rodney King attack was 32 years ago. And it started well before then.
Retired LAPD make up a significant part of the white supremacist colonies in Idaho.
dlk
(13,247 posts)Too many of us have become numb to these endless tragic losses and dont demand police reform.
packman
(16,296 posts)Original posting example of bias and inaccurate reporting and posting
Judi Lynn
(164,124 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(26,955 posts)aocommunalpunch
(4,581 posts)Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)And I say that from a place of middle-aged white woman privilege.
CTyankee
(68,201 posts)so I don't know what I'm missing.
(why can't firefox open this page?)
ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)teach1st
(6,024 posts)Not viewable in any browser.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Fix the video, link, WTFever it is.
live love laugh
(16,383 posts)czarjak
(13,639 posts)Response to live love laugh (Original post)
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Ferryboat
(1,264 posts)Should go on a Federal database for a do not hire list.
Insurance policies for cops for excessive force?
Premium goes up with each documentation of excessive force. No Insurance. No job.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)So what is it that's going on every supposed day?
Celerity
(54,407 posts)
live love laugh
(16,383 posts)LAS14
(15,506 posts)LAS14
(15,506 posts)Do you know why your capture showed in your post, whereas I only got the link?
https://gyazo.com/c4f3ed5a8a8307e8d86c3e16d100792e
Celerity
(54,407 posts)here is a snap of what I pasted (went to your link and right clicked, copied image adress)


it came from this

LAS14
(15,506 posts)
Response to live love laugh (Original post)
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