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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com |
the shift during my lifetime from “police should not have to be outgunned” to “police should never face danger” to “police are empowered to fatally eliminate any self-identified threat” to “police should be celebrated for murder” has been genuinely shocking
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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against my better judgement I watched the video from the deputy's body camera he shot Roger Fortson six times in the chest and abdomen without warning, THEN shouted "drop your weapon, drop your weapon" I assume that was to confuse potential witnesses who could later be challenged on the stand 1/2
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@debrecenisrac46.bsky.social
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In the early 1960s in the restricted area of Berlin there were a small row of houses for very loyal communists. One retired cop had friends over. He knew most of the guards and promised to ask his visitors to leave. They got to drinking and the time passed.
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JoyousPanther
@joyouspanther.bsky.social
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It is insane how they look like robocop now. They used to just wear blue uniforms with a belt.
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Flying Mezerkis
@bananapantz.bsky.social
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I know this idea is massively more sensible than popular, but that’s just me for you. Ban guns. Yes. I haven’t thought this through. There are dozens of complications. But actually it’s all rather easy, without guns society becomes safer. Sorry to bring facts to a gun fight.
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Noah Brand
@noahbrand.bsky.social
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"The job of the police is to shoot people." That's the maxim. It's taught explicitly and implicitly in a million movies and TV shows, and simply taken for granted by now. If you assume that as a maxim, just about everything they say makes sense instantly.
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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i would sound insane to gen z-ers if i described the cop support for gun control in the 90s
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Adam Goldberg
@cinefilmag.bsky.social
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Post 9/11, the NYPD’a PR team took all the oxygen from the FDNY and have been running with that ball ever since.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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So a huge part of that was the GWOT and its grifters finding their way to the police with that killology nonsense. That single dude told hundreds of departments that the answer was always shoot first because it was the only way to feel safe (and led to good sex)
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Are You Being Detained
@sailbarque.bsky.social
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I'm thinking of the near future when something like Musk announces that a robot is now capable of doing the work of a police officer and the police officers will try to nix it by saying that you want a thinking, empathetic human being behind the trigger if it comes to it. And we will all laugh.
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Nihl L'Amas
@nih-llamas.bsky.social
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"Police will be punished for not meeting their murder quota"
www.aclu.org/video/meet-o...
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Hoyle
@axelhoyle.bsky.social
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"police officers should be given the utmost deference because they 'lay their life on the line every day'" and also "the most important thing is that every officer goes home"
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THE Bryan Wenzel
@bryanwenzel.bsky.social
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Pick up that can, citizen
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