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In reply to the discussion: "Fuck Your Breath" [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)53. Back in December, Matt Taibbi published a little-noticed op-ed piece in Rolling Stone that
points up a nascent crisis in legitimacy among the local constabulary forces, a powerful paragraph of which is excerpted below:
Law-enforcement resources are now distributed so unevenly, and justice is being administered with such brazen inconsistency, that people everywhere are going to start questioning the basic political authority of law enforcement. And they're mostly going to be right to do it, and when they do, it's going to create problems that will make the post-Ferguson unrest seem minor.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-police-in-america-are-becoming-illegitimate-20141205
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-police-in-america-are-becoming-illegitimate-20141205
Taibbi's are words few dare utter, but many are starting to think.
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Not 'just' a symptom, but I take your point. During Occupy Los Angeles, we
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#7
When the power holder in any group gives a bullyboy someone to bully, he cements
tblue37
Apr 2015
#28
You may have zeroed in on a very, very important dynamic. "... occupied some special status
GoneFishin
Apr 2015
#46
Back in December, Matt Taibbi published a little-noticed op-ed piece in Rolling Stone that
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#53
OT, but I teach English as a Second Language so, of course, I'm thinking about how I would teach
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#64
'scheming guttersnipes' is good. Even "scheming" by itself is pretty versatile when discussing
GoneFishin
Apr 2015
#69
Some of my Socialist comrades refer to this same cadre as the "Labor Aristocrats," workers given
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#61
Ah, I had forgotten Mr. London's contributions to our understanding of the class struggle. I find
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#109
Here is some information about why some cops have the same mindset of criminals
Maraya1969
Apr 2015
#72
We need to deal with this on a national level. Local authorities seem to have lost control.
marble falls
Apr 2015
#5
Have they 'lost control' or are the police merely executing (npi) their actual
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#8
Either way its detrimental to all citizens: disproportionally so if the executed is black, male...
marble falls
Apr 2015
#25
And detrimental to the notion of a 'republic,' I think. What do you think President
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#37
absolutely, positively donot want a national police force on the streets.....
marble falls
Apr 2015
#74
Agreed. Just the thought he'd be nominated in 2008 drove some people crazy and there were racist
freshwest
Apr 2015
#19
May I humbly suggest the words "cretins or troglodytes or bigots" as labels for
libdem4life
Apr 2015
#34
Again, thank you. I get similar lessons from the young 'uns myself and keep on learning.
libdem4life
Apr 2015
#90
That seems to have happened in some quarters, aided and abetted by big money.
freshwest
Apr 2015
#84
I think you are completely right. If you are cop and a raging racist under the surface,
GoneFishin
Apr 2015
#47
I can assure you this backlash is real and takes place in business too, the story I could tell
NoJusticeNoPeace
Apr 2015
#55
Some of it is also the general fear of black people getting "uppity"....
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2015
#87
"who "said he" accidentally pulled his gun"< Just wanted to add a necessary correction. n/t
jtuck004
Apr 2015
#16
Thanks. I am too deaf to understand words on videos, so I wouldn't be able to tell
tblue37
Apr 2015
#35
You mean treating a black man like a piece of spoiled meat? Or the "accident". ?
jtuck004
Apr 2015
#44
I'm aghast that they were using a 73 year old retired officer on the street
TorchTheWitch
Apr 2015
#101
But he gave them lots of shiny toys, so he can play cop now, and shoot people, too!
hatrack
Apr 2015
#30
How is the officer's sentiments toward the man different from that of the Nazi SS?
Enthusiast
Apr 2015
#42
Just replace the uniforms, use black & white film, and substitute "you have a tail light out" with
GoneFishin
Apr 2015
#52
Just watched the video...that's it, something WILL be done otherwise there is
NoJusticeNoPeace
Apr 2015
#59
Exactly, I marched in seattle for "I cant breathe" but I dont know what else to do
NoJusticeNoPeace
Apr 2015
#68
Kick for Police training where fatally wounded suspects get nothing but a knee on their head.
Octafish
Apr 2015
#65
the use of a taser at the moment it was fired (as a gun) did not appear necessary
tomm2thumbs
Apr 2015
#89
Same wtih Oscar Grant: when face-down and cuffed, a taser is nothing but torture.
arcane1
Apr 2015
#91
How the fuck does Oklahoma or any other place let untrained volunteers wield a gun and Taser?
Mayberry Machiavelli
Apr 2015
#79
There is something seriously wrong with the recruiting, hiring, firing and determination of
JDPriestly
Apr 2015
#88
More cell phones and normal citizens who are brave enough to send it to a news outlet.
libdem4life
Apr 2015
#93
Cold.. Callus Murder... The cop will get a medal, he will be praised and given time off with pay
uponit7771
Apr 2015
#100