Talk’s cheap. Suddenly everyone’s a battlefield expert… after decades of criticizing police violence, cutting budgets, and trying to put social workers in the place of cops.
While on the face of it, the deputies did appear to have been derelict, I’m not going to second guess them. Let the investigations play out, let these men explain the…
Talk’s cheap. Suddenly everyone’s a battlefield expert… after decades of criticizing police violence, cutting budgets, and trying to put social workers in the place of cops.
While on the face of it, the deputies did appear to have been derelict, I’m not going to second guess them. Let the investigations play out, let these men explain their actions.
Like the George Floyd farce, where a man’s fatal overdose was blamed on the arresting officers who were then locked away for life, cops around the country will be outwardly nodding their heads and agreeing this operation was improperly conducted, but privately they’ll be muttering that their jobs are impossible. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Few, if any of, us are battlefield experts. But many, if not all of us, are parents. My child is in a school being shot at and you won’t go in nor will you let me go in? Fuck that.
I mean it seems as if the operation was mishandled if not outright bungled, with catastrophic and tragic results. These guys apparently had never been in a live fire situation before. What would I have done as a parent? Maybe I would have had the courage to run in, and been tased/cuffed by the cops (who definitely had the courage to tackle unarmed civilians). But what you or I would have done in that situation? Words are cheap, actions are quite something else. When the cops say to the civilians "Stand back, this is being handled" then what are we to think?
If you don’t—at least—second guess the police cartel that has a monopoly on sanctioned violence, then you will doom yourself to serfdom. Note, this is not an anti-police comment. But rather than believe your ideology on police that includes a fanciful assumption of incorruptibility, you might believe your own lying eyes on this one.
There's no "fanciful assumption of police incorruptibility" here, that hyperbolic characterization is entirely in your imagination.
Also the police are not a "cartel" and the existence of injustice or brutality does not in any way justify your characterization of all of them as being violent and unethical.
Declaring your comment isn't "anti-police" while also labeling them all a "cartel" is hypocritical.
Like the Floyd farce, most of the initial reporting will turn out to be untrue but by the time details come out ignorant opinions will already be hardened.
Dont know what part of the Floyd incident you are calling a farce as his killing was way wrong, but I agree about too often jumping the gun sets the narrative yet is wrong. Like the Michael Brown story about which Shelby Steele and his son did a whole documentary on but those who like the false story better refuse to see it or remember it.
Similarly, the Trayvon Martin thing was a hoax from beginning to end. Funny BLM got started on that, and reached national fame on the Michael Brown hoax.
Talk’s cheap. Suddenly everyone’s a battlefield expert… after decades of criticizing police violence, cutting budgets, and trying to put social workers in the place of cops.
While on the face of it, the deputies did appear to have been derelict, I’m not going to second guess them. Let the investigations play out, let these men explain their actions.
Like the George Floyd farce, where a man’s fatal overdose was blamed on the arresting officers who were then locked away for life, cops around the country will be outwardly nodding their heads and agreeing this operation was improperly conducted, but privately they’ll be muttering that their jobs are impossible. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Few, if any of, us are battlefield experts. But many, if not all of us, are parents. My child is in a school being shot at and you won’t go in nor will you let me go in? Fuck that.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mother-handcuffed-outside-texas-school-202952406.html
I mean it seems as if the operation was mishandled if not outright bungled, with catastrophic and tragic results. These guys apparently had never been in a live fire situation before. What would I have done as a parent? Maybe I would have had the courage to run in, and been tased/cuffed by the cops (who definitely had the courage to tackle unarmed civilians). But what you or I would have done in that situation? Words are cheap, actions are quite something else. When the cops say to the civilians "Stand back, this is being handled" then what are we to think?
If they’re outside the school when they say it and there’s no hostage negotiator, I think they’re full of shit.
If you don’t—at least—second guess the police cartel that has a monopoly on sanctioned violence, then you will doom yourself to serfdom. Note, this is not an anti-police comment. But rather than believe your ideology on police that includes a fanciful assumption of incorruptibility, you might believe your own lying eyes on this one.
There's no "fanciful assumption of police incorruptibility" here, that hyperbolic characterization is entirely in your imagination.
Also the police are not a "cartel" and the existence of injustice or brutality does not in any way justify your characterization of all of them as being violent and unethical.
Declaring your comment isn't "anti-police" while also labeling them all a "cartel" is hypocritical.
Like the Floyd farce, most of the initial reporting will turn out to be untrue but by the time details come out ignorant opinions will already be hardened.
Dont know what part of the Floyd incident you are calling a farce as his killing was way wrong, but I agree about too often jumping the gun sets the narrative yet is wrong. Like the Michael Brown story about which Shelby Steele and his son did a whole documentary on but those who like the false story better refuse to see it or remember it.
Similarly, the Trayvon Martin thing was a hoax from beginning to end. Funny BLM got started on that, and reached national fame on the Michael Brown hoax.
Terry...yep and toss the media.