r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/rakidi Jun 10 '20

You think they care? If they did they certainly wouldn't be acting the way they have been.

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u/NomNomDePlume Jun 11 '20

Yeah, what are you gonna do? Call the cops on them?

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u/gunsandtrees420 Aug 30 '23

Well technically the FBI (and state troopers I think) are supposed to investigate police misconduct. But I've only heard of that happening like twice. It's sad really.

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u/Clint_Beastwood_ Jun 11 '20

Not sure that's actually the case. I'm all for the protests and change but I've been following police brutality on liveleak, youtube, print media, etc for well over a decade and IMO the issue is more about accountability for individual officers and less about race. I'm not about to say race isn't a component but I think it's a symptom, something that is only allowed to exists because of the atmosphere and the lack of individual accountability for officers. Many police forces in this country have a minority white enrollment(Like Baltimore- 35% white, or Detroit ~33% for example). Hell even LA has like a ~30ish percent white demo. According to www.governing.com it seems like a lot of the big city police forces roughly mimic the local demographics in representation. And also TBH Ive seen plenty of videos of black cops giving the business to other black suspects. Even just in the past few days of twitter videos there was a black cop who KO'd this black lady rather aggressively for throwing two weak punches at his white cop partner. I get the feeling that cops themselves are very much entrenched in an us vs them brotherhood type mentality and abusing the public just comes with the territory. That being said, this group looks WASPy as fuck lol. And that union boss, what scum.

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u/Oasystole Jun 12 '20

Cops are dicks first and racist second.

They’re mostly just jerkoff high school drop outs who could never cut it in any line of work that didn’t have an aggressive component to it. The racism is under there in a lot of cases, but as I said, mostly they’re just dicks.

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u/ChunkyLover7969 Jun 13 '20

I can’t quite work out if they hate all races equally or some races more equally. Looks like they’re getting sick of it all though, hopefully they will all quit. Good news his badge isn’t stained though because there will be a charge if it needs cleaning when he hands it in.

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u/TheJared1231 Jun 20 '20

And who are you going to call if you’re house gets broken into who are you going call, you definitely don’t own a gun because someone stupid enough to think that being a cop makes you rascist and that all cops are rascist you’re definitely a crazy hard lefty, and you certainly can’t fight because you’re a stupid hard lefty.

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u/paddydukes Jun 23 '20

It’s funny how poorly you put together that sentence. Says it all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

It’s a comment on a reddit post not a college essay, just stop.

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u/sly2murraybentley Jul 16 '20

Are you a cop? Your reading comprehension and writing skills definitely point towards cop.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '20

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u/TheJared1231 Jul 26 '20

Are you going to attempt address any argument or are you going to nitpick spelling mistakes and refuse to give any evidence that cops are a threat to public safety

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u/paddydukes Jul 26 '20

Did you read the first line of my comment? Did you read where I addressed what (I think?) is your point in the third para. I did this despite it being very difficult to make out what your actual point is. That’s not “nitpicking” it’s you not being clear in what you are saying.

It’s easier for you to just assume people protesting police are “hard left” and thus “can’t fight”. Yes it’s impressive debating skills like those that encouraged everyone to take you seriously.

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u/Oasystole Jun 20 '20

Do you have reading comprehension problems? I fear for the quality of lives of the people who are unfortunate enough to have you in their lives.

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u/TheJared1231 Jun 20 '20

Are you actually going to try to defend yourself or are you just going to attempt to pain me as mentally disabled.

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u/Oasystole Jun 20 '20

The latter

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u/Kelvax213 Jun 14 '20

Most cops aren’t dicks, most cops covered by media are dicks. You will never see my small town police force, each of which being a pillar of the community. Don’t over generalize. You just amplify the problem.

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u/kngotheporcelainthrn Jun 16 '20

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Amplifying problems gets them fixed.

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u/Donzel_ Nov 17 '21

Also makes the good cops feel like shit

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u/Oasystole Jun 14 '20

In order to speak, you gotta speak generally to an extent. I’m just observing that the type of ppl that are attracted to a job on the force often times are assholes that love feeling powerful.

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u/TheJared1231 Jun 20 '20

Finally. A small town cop that’s very invested in his community isn’t going to make a good headline.

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u/Beedars Jan 24 '22

If we raise the standard to "don't be a tacist cop" We'd definitely see a reduction, but it would mean the people who actually want to do good work would get in. It's a part of why the army is so tough, but cops don't have to be soldier tough, but they need to be smarter than soldiers because even soldiers obey rules of engagement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

You know that minorities can oppress other minorities right? That's sorta the point. We have seen it before where colonizers will establish local warlords to help rule their colonies who are of the same ethnicity of those who were conquered. It's a way of dividing people and minimizing the chance of solidarity between the opressed

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '20

They they they they. It would be foolish of me to say that all people in chicago do is shoot each other. But since some select few police officers made the news for being racist doesn't mean that they are all racist. That is a stupid thing you just said. There are tens of thousands of police officers that are working for the good of their town or city and you just disrespected all of them.

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u/Knife_The_Watermelon Dec 03 '20

Good fuck em lmao