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JonLP24

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27. Defund the police is a solution to problems

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #24)

Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:45 PM

Jan 2021

Than more training.

It is the laws. There is qualified immunity. We need national standards. I support reducing police budgets & funding social services.

I'm not that interested in what turns off the right wing when they stormed the Capitol and tried to kidnap Whitmer. We are lucky we didn't have any political assassinations this year and the threats were from right wing extremists.

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2 Virginia police officers arrested for their insurrectionist roles.... [View all] 634-5789 Jan 2021 OP

They & 99% of the mob thought white privilege would protect them. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #1

Unconsciously apnu Jan 2021 #7

That's how white privilege operates, just assumed and all-pervasive. But not assumed by all whites Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #13

That's a true statement. apnu Jan 2021 #16

Yep, because it usually has. marmar Jan 2021 #17

Good, and regardless of the outcome of any possible indictment or trial, they should also be still_one Jan 2021 #2

Officers on administrative leave struggle4progress Jan 2021 #3

Officers ordered to stay away from DC, protests struggle4progress Jan 2021 #4

"...and their records of military service." ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #6

Yes, it makes them more dangerous Tom Rinaldo Jan 2021 #10

A great reason why LE should stop recruiting ex-military DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #14

Only the authoritarian ones want to join the police JonLP24 Jan 2021 #15

I'm In! ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #25

MPs have police experience JonLP24 Jan 2021 #26

Yeah, I Know ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #28

Hiring MPs would be fine with me DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #29

One has to wonder DFW Jan 2021 #5

+1, they all looked like they were on tour uponit7771 Jan 2021 #8

You'd think these two would know the consequences to breaking and entering... EarthFirst Jan 2021 #9

Woman shot was Breaking & Entering secured area. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #18

Something I posted on FB pfitz59 Jan 2021 #11

Thugs, white supremacists. triron Jan 2021 #12

knr triron Jan 2021 #19

They look the part Dem2 Jan 2021 #20

knr 1000 times triron Jan 2021 #21

I hope they both get lengthy sentences dustyscamp Jan 2021 #22

Well, well - two dumbass redneck small town cops from western Virginia thought they had a permit hatrack Jan 2021 #23

And people wonder why we need police reform... Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #24

Defund the police is a solution to problems JonLP24 Jan 2021 #27