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marym625

(17,997 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 02:52 PM Dec 2014

This is why calling out all police to speak out against bad cops is justified

As I and others have said before, we applaud the cops that have broken the silence, stepped over the thin blue line. They are facing serious hardship and some awful backlash from their brothers in blue and police apologists. These few, brave, individuals are leading the way for others to do what is right.

Brutality in any and all forms must be acknowledged by law enforcement for there to be any real change. Remaining silent about racial profiling, unnecessary roughness, outright beatings and of course, murder, does nothing but allow the behavior continue.

It is the solidarity, the self reference to "family," "brother and sister" that allows us to call out all police officers to break the silence when there is police brutality. The fact that police officers from around the country came to the funeral for Officer Ramos, and plan to come to the funeral for Officer Liu proves the unity within the police forces.

"You won’t find this anywhere else. You won’t find this in any other field than law enforcement,” Officer Dustin Lindaman of the Waterloo, Iowa, police department said. “We’re brothers. When one of us goes down, we’re going to be there.” 


http://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-country-vow-return-2nd-nypd-funeral/story?id=27855406

The solidarity is admirable in many aspects. But when that solidarity allows for the outright, blatant abuse of power to continue, it shows that their respect for law, law enforcement and the citizens of the US is far from what their objectives as officers of the law should be. It also gives the appearance of a very racist organization. When the police that turned their backs on Mayor De Blasio did so, it wasn't just those from New York. But it was an affront to The Ramos family, black people, protesters against racist practices and brutality, the Garner, Rice, Brown, Crawford and other families of unarmed black men killed by police, and all citizens of the US.

So when people get angry at those of us calling out all cops to step forward and break the silence, when they say that we shouldn't expect all cops to be responsible for calling out bad cops, remember the solidarity and claims that they're brothers. It is exactly that solidarity that keeps the horrific happening. It is exactly that solidarity that allows us to say "all cops..."

Thank you to the following police officers for stepping up

Deputy Chief Allwyn Brown
Chief Chris Magnus
Officer Pedro Serrano

Please let me know of any officers I missed. I did do many searches and this is all I could find

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This is why calling out all police to speak out against bad cops is justified (Original Post) marym625 Dec 2014 OP
Supporting individual bad cops and depts undermines support for all cops on point Dec 2014 #1
Well said marym625 Dec 2014 #2
Actually marym625 Dec 2014 #3
K&R! 20score Dec 2014 #4
Thank you! n/t marym625 Dec 2014 #5
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