Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

they claim to represent diverse perspectives and have never let the coronavirus publish an op-ed, wtf

Fascism: Is It Worth a Second Look?

#BREAKING: I’m told the entire @BPDAlerts Emergency Response Team has resigned from the team, a total of 57 officers, as a show of support for the officers who are suspended without pay after shoving Martin Gugino, 75. They are still employed, but no longer on ERT. @news4buffalo

— Dave Greber (@DaveGreber4) June 5, 2020

kind of lol but mostly sad

A special squad on the Buffalo Police department – the Emergency Response Team – has resigned from their posts, according the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.

The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing them pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury. 

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.
 
The special response unit was formed in 2016 and is deployed to manage mass protests or riots.

two of their members, who were simply executing orders

It is imperative we find out who gave these orders to gravely injure unarmed old men.

Thanks!

57 fewer cops, so win win

hey guys, did you hear that 57 officers in Buffalo resigned from the Emergency Response Team

57 fewer cops, so win win

not even really though, they're still on the force

i was reading from the bottom up and thinking maybe they resigned because they were embarrassed. nope.

(I'm a little sad that this story isn't happening in Pittsburgh so we could make some Heinz 57 jokes without reaching)

yeah they didn't quit why bc they are chickenshit

headline should read "57 cops fail to resign for wrong reason"

wait

i hadn't realized that cops could just work whatever beat they wanted to

it's not a beat it's just a specialized unit with different uniforms and a few thousand extra pay

The union president's original statement defended the officers on the grounds that they were "simply executing olders" but legal made them change it

not that i know this particular department but it is the same everywhere; some departments name their SWAT team something different so this could be theirs as well xp

Supporting elder abuse to own the Libs

— Mitch Robson (@_mitchrobson) June 5, 2020

just got threatened by an ex-military guy who lives here for calling out his racism when he infiltrated a friend's thread with his racist shit. FB profile is a treasure trove of anti-black protester sentiment, and he went after my friends with sexist barbs.

I immediately called him out on what it was, and he backed off of it ("what threat, we're just talking, you civilian!"). but i'm plenty taking it serious.

reported him to FB - what's the over/under on whether they actually remove his shit and ban him, or if they ban me instead for the names i called him?

boy you would think people would know better than to give the nazi "just following orders" defense anymore

that was crowdsourced even more telling. nobody said "hmm I think I've heard this phrase before"?

#ZBELLION

Documents obtained by @nickturse via FOIA reveal the Pentagon has planned for "a scenario in which members of Generation Z, driven by malaise and discontent, launch a 'Zbellion' in America in the mid-2020s." https://t.co/cigpi9ubkV

— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) June 5, 2020

I fear for Bouie's health: he's been deservedly blasting Andrew Sullivan and Noah Rothman on Twitter all afternoon.

don't everybody like the smell of Z-belline
burn motherfucker, burn American dream

Bouie was a fantastic hire for the NYT -- he's probably their best columnist these days.

just got threatened by an ex-military guy who lives here for calling out his racism when he infiltrated a friend's thread with his racist shit. FB profile is a treasure trove of anti-black protester sentiment, and he went after my friends with sexist barbs

it's because the PUSSIES in the GOVERNMENT wouldn't let us FIGHT to WIN

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQqd5fBXhIe8rGOYSUBzjTJvPVFZcaD-PJcADeSwB-nkkA9bPmr&usqp=CAU

Zbellion

This is an even more stupid neologism when you're British, btw. Took me a while.

Zedbel Without a Cause

Or Canadian.

xp

My enemy, from a google search, lives 3 miles from me. He sent me this PM. He flirting with me?

https://i.ibb.co/z4PjYFL/FB-IMG-1591397360575.jpg

yeah he wants to bone

discreet

Tell him to hog out or log out

time to have the cops he loves so much pay him a visit.

That'd be irony!

they'll probably just hang out and high fives over their mutual love of stepping on people's necks, but still...

Seattle's mayor announced a 30 day moratorium on the use of tear gas as a crowd control tactic to uh…give…someone…time to…study the issue?

"Study: Tear Gas is good for u!"

people listening to scanners there saying there was indications they...ran out of tear gas

she sucks, incidentally

Someone I know just posted video of what definitely appears to be US military staging in Chicago. Not national guard.

what i like about all these considerations for study and more rules constraining police is when bad things happen the bad actors can point to the rule book and say they have followed all the proper procedures so why are you whining

xpost Seems like something that would not happen here, but ... who knows.

Wait actually I’m not sure it’s army. I guess I just didn’t realize National guard would be outfitted/armed so similarly to army?

They look exactly like the army tbh

Yeah so prob nat guard. Still they look more heavily armed than what I’ve seen previously.

The worst right wing argument I've read: COVID must not be as dangerous as you told us if you can protest surrounded by hundreds of strangers.."

I worry about that as a rebuttal to all of our concerns tbh