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In reply to the discussion: just killed a cop. taken into custody without a brutal beating [View all]
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(5,969 posts)17. Yeah, you totally got it
That is what the OP was about: More police brutality. So much pretzel logic these days.
For the case it wasn't clear, the point of the OP wasn't to ask for more police violence. It was the opposite by contrasting the treatment of an actual killer to innocent people getting murdered by psycho cops. When murderers can get arrested without anything happening to them, maybe the police can do the same for those who haven't done anything or who are brought in for questioning without publicly lynching them.
And btw, Floyd was in cuffs as well, surrounded by 4 cops, 3 of them sitting on him, torturing him while ironically waiting for medical assistance.
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No, but when they do end badly it's most likely with a POC not white cop killers
TeamPooka
Jun 2020
#12
That's ... NOT ... a stereotype that cop leadership around the country accept a few bad apples ...
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#36
WOW, I wish I could afford to interview each cop to see if they're one of the bad apples
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#21
So is the logic that we should tolerate a few bad apples, PoC can't afford that
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#33
Have you seen the mug shots of the Atlanta cops who brutalized the college kids?
Tipperary
Jun 2020
#34
Logical fallacy, the exception does not overrides the rule 🙄 I fuckin don't believe this is being
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#35
That being a most accurate summation of the depth of your dialog... and character.
LanternWaste
Jun 2020
#50
If some people spent a fraction of the time and energy they exert trying to prove racism isn't
StarfishSaver
Jun 2020
#46
The officer didn't deserve to be murdered; other officers didn't deserve to be shot & hurt by a bomb
NBachers
Jun 2020
#5
I would like to see not stopping or reporting offenses by other officers be a fireable offense
Marrah_Goodman
Jun 2020
#47
If cops had ever policed there own the way they do citizens there would be no problems
TeamPooka
Jun 2020
#13
Some ?!?!!? That's fucked up. That's like saying some airline pilots like to crash into mountains
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#24
Do you know how the old saying goes? "A few bad apples spoil the whole barrel."
TeamPooka
Jun 2020
#54
Everyone makes that 'bad apples' argument. And they forget the entire quote:
GoneOffShore
Jun 2020
#53
the dehumanization of POC by police is sickening.... not all cops but enough
Demovictory9
Jun 2020
#42