I'd probably choose trump
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
and maybe do more with it than voting for DA
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
Seeing reports that a bunch of Atlanta cops are planning a #blueflu strike/walkout because of the charges, threatening that there'll be "no protection!".
What bunch of tittybaby assholes.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
I always wondered--if something like that happened in a major city--how much of the actual crime perpetrated afterwards would carried out by cops.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
while the cops aren't working, they'll be out committing violent crimes to prove we need cops
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
in other words, business as usual
BREAKING: Reports that *every* #Atlanta police officer has refused to work their shift tonight. Mayor has requested aid from surrounding jurisdictions. Every neighboring department has explicitly stated they will *not* cover for Atlanta.— Timothy Peterson (@nsquaredcrypto) June 18, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
Note the username is “nsquaredcrypto” so take that with a big pinch of salt
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
and 0.04nsq
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
wouldn't this be an opportune time to... attack the police stations, since they won't be at the precinctsnot that i'm condoning it, NSA watchers!
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
PBKR: it’s Alvin Bragg
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
XP OCCUPY POLICE STATIONS
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
That’s what I thought. Donation on the way even though we’re just outside the city and can’t vote.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
I don't think "every" Atlanta police officer has called out but it sounds like a lot of them have.
― trapped out the barndo (crĂĽt), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
my ex just posted supporting the cop in the McDonald's video.
who the fuck are these people that have never had wrong/delayed McDonald's meals? McDonald's know they're bad, they were one of the first to roll out the "we don't have yr fries ready" spaces.
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
People who see all the COPS POISONED BY FAST FOOD THUGS stories and somehow miss the "jk shake was fine they were just lactose intolerant"
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
a friend who is married to a cop repeated the "oh gee what a coincidence, just the three cops were sick", and didn't register that if the culprit truly was residue from cleaning product that wasn't properly removed, and the three cops came in at the same time, obviously all three would get sick. be different if they came in individually, hours apart
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
hey we can't all have our DETECTIVE SHIELDS like a couplea SUITS, some of us have to take our CHANCES on the STREETS, but you wouldn't KNOW about that, WOULD you
― j., Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a fairly big deal that they charged the non-shooting officer and he turned state's witness. Obviously waaaaaaaay more pressure needs to be put on, but maybe it's a sign of some faint cracks in the thin blue wall.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Narrator: He was naive.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
I just got off a fundraiser Q&A Zoom call for a college classmate who is running for Manhattan DA and I think if he wins, he will do incredible things for the city; his parents were social workers and a core tenet of his platform involves his office declining to prosecute people for things like drug possession and removing police officers from schools so kids don't end up in jail for acting like kids; he also is very much into defunding the police and reallocating resources to professionals more suited to dealing with (for example) issues caused by homelessness and mental illness. Kind of make me wish I lived in Manhattan so I could vote for him.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
just a note that Philly elected someone similar, and he's turned out to be a total disaster who hasn't followed through on much of what he promised, partly through no fault of his own, but he certainly gets some of the blame. obviously yr friend may be different, but at this juncture, i'm just wary of placing any faith in politicians, DAs, or anyone with that kind of power.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
I would invite you to look at his resume
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
he got my 100 bucks.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuk_m4jwuFY
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
nbc not on the ball obv. no news anyways
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
A few fun charts.First is the average salary of various jobs in LA.Given that the earnings needed to own a home and afford it are ~110k (HSH / HUD / Curbed) most two earner households with these careers (sans police) can’t afford a home in LA. pic.twitter.com/ouBtQ2P6P1— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020
Then, let’s look at how long it takes to enter one of these fields.Note that the careers are kept in order, to make this parsable against the last one. Retail is a tricky bug, but I’m pegging it to “dedicated training” time, not probationary periods at starting. pic.twitter.com/84JcKu2H45— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
well shit
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
can we get a bastard percentage for each profession as well
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
college is a scam wooooooooooooo
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
Note that excludes overtime. Many LA cops pull down another six figures of overtime.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
weird. rookie cops in new york make a tiny fraction of that. in 2005 it was something like $22K. meaning they all commuted in from, like, nassau.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
well i dunno - either it's really ballooned or the gulf between rookie salaries and the brass is huge (or both)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
wow yeah - check this out:
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-benefits.page
one might THINK that higher salaries would attract a higher caliber of recruit...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
That only works if they’re turning applicants away which I don’t think they are
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
imagine the sort of people who are enrolling as cops right noweither in real need of paying work or spectacularly idealistic or just brutal
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
this clip hits hard
Today in Charlotte cops arrested people who were providing support to protesters who were released from jail. Adding this to the list of reasons to #DefundThePolice. pic.twitter.com/xXyBgLHUPR— nyc law grrrl (@nyclawgrrrl) June 19, 2020
this is a group performing the same work as my partner, right now - being there for people released out of jail, the second they walk out the door. the tweet describes this as "providing support to protesters", which may be accurate, but in all likelihood they are also providing support to ANYONE who is released, not just protesters. that includes people addicted to heroin who are in the middle of withdrawal when they're released and are absolutely desperate. the city, the state - they don't help these people when they get out of jail. in fact they often go out of their way to try to fuck them over on the way out by releasing them late at night, with no transportation running, after curfew, no money for a cab, etc.
and then when volunteer groups form to do the work that the state should be doing in the first place, this happens. it scares the shit out of me. i haven't heard of them doing this to any other jail support group yet, but goddamn fuck this
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article243630107.html
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
“We’re doing this for your skin color. Are you f— blind?” a protester shouted at a Black sheriff’s deputy.
stfu, protester; you are not helping
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
yeah, i cringed at that, and not in the fun nathan fielder way.
but this part down below is a good description of why these jail support services are so important. this is a totally different group, but this almost exactly mirrors what i've seen with the chicago group, down to the original focus on protesters and quickly expanding to anyone released out of jail:
The jail support group had been outside the sheriff’s office on Fourth Street for weeks.Charlotte Uprising originally started the group as a fund to help protesters bail out of jail if arrested while demonstrating in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. More recently, the tables and tents have also become a supply station for protesters and a resource for people released from the county jail.“Jail support provides so much for people,” ACLU activist Kristie Puckett-Williams told reporters Thursday. “It’s a welcome home party, letting them know that their lives matter. It’s also resources that they might not immediately have access to.”Those resources include money, a ride, cigarettes, a hot meal, clothes, and access to a phone charger, Puckett-Williams said.“This should be something that is happening all the time, not just during a protest,” she said.
Charlotte Uprising originally started the group as a fund to help protesters bail out of jail if arrested while demonstrating in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. More recently, the tables and tents have also become a supply station for protesters and a resource for people released from the county jail.
“Jail support provides so much for people,” ACLU activist Kristie Puckett-Williams told reporters Thursday. “It’s a welcome home party, letting them know that their lives matter. It’s also resources that they might not immediately have access to.”
Those resources include money, a ride, cigarettes, a hot meal, clothes, and access to a phone charger, Puckett-Williams said.
“This should be something that is happening all the time, not just during a protest,” she said.
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
i'm sure most of you are already familiar with this kind of jail support stuff. to me, it was a blind spot. the state should be doing this, not volunteers up in the middle of the night at 4am in a tent besides the county jail. i hope that these kinds of things are being considered in the wave of legislative pushes across the country right now
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
the ride, in particular, is important. people that are released from jail are often left without any of their identification or belongings they had at the time. they might have been sent to a different police district, or seized as "evidence" and sent to the black hole of the incarceration system. often, the first thing someone needs to do is go on this crazy wild goose chase for their essential items, their keys, their license, whatever. And the people at the jail and police stations offer ZERO support. they're rude as fuck, they don't care. the released people call the police district that arrested them to inquire about their belongings, and more often than not they're just told "we don't have it, you could try checking here, here, or here. maybe." imagine being released with no belongings or money, and no support, at that moment, in the middle of the night.
anyway, what a rotten system, from cradle to grave
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
david brooks discussing frank wilderson's 'afropessimism' was not on my bingo card
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 19 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
holy shit, this seems awful. all three of these in the thread. it gets worse and worse
He was at his job as securityIt was his second job He was paying for schoolSheriffs rolled up & pulled out guns. He ran scared. They fired immediately. They murdered him. He was only 18. His name is AndrĂ©s Guardado #DefundThePolice #killercops https://t.co/nInYExrCDO— Memo Torres (@el_tragon_de_LA) June 19, 2020
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
the other two posts involve a cop smirking and laughing at the grieving family, and a nearby store owner showing how the cops broke all the security cameras at the scene
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
sorry, not "nearby store owner", i think that was the manager of the store where the kid was working security. :(
LASD are the worst of the worst. worse even than LAPD. just straight up criminals.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 June 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
I'm sorry I've changed my mind, defunding the police is too risky
But by all means, let’s abolish the police! Would love to see a “social worker” take care of this one. https://t.co/EE2WPDKg2m— Jason Lewis (@LewisForMN) June 19, 2020
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, arrest that bear!
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
kuma police
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
not sure where to post this but there's been a fatal shooting in the CHAZ apparently. :-(
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/seattle-shooting-police-free-zone-chaz
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link