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Most people agree with this. Police are hardly looked at as villains in our society. My entire life we have had hundreds of movies and television shows, the vast majority devoted to the notion that police officers are the good guys. And a whole lot of them glamorize the idea of the cop who’s extra tough and has to bend or break the rules to fight crime.
I can agree with all parts of this statement if you delete the "left-wing" insinuation of it. Police and police unions predominately vote Republican. The Minneapolis Police union appear to be predominantly more Right Wing than Left Wing. Police all over the country appear to be more Right Wing than Left Wing. The profession as a whole, along with leadership, along with its history, along with its traditions, would appear to be much more aligned to Right Wing polices than Left Wing policies. Yet, you can honestly conclude, that the problem with the last week has been Left Wing bureaucracy?
Agreed. Not to mention there’s been investigations done in the past showing that hundreds of cops belong to extremist Facebook groups.
but you guys just keep assuming only racist cops use excessive force is where you're wrong. There are cops out there that will use excessive force whether you're white or black, but I agree racist cops that only use excessive force on minorities are absolutely disgusting.
I agree. I don't know anyone that has ill will towards the police.
Yes this is the systemic part of the problem. A lot of this behavior is taught and encouraged especially when you consider that the cops know they won’t have any repercussions.
So are you saying that the percentage of our nations police force that is racist is higher than 20% ?
Exactly. People seem to think racism is the only problem with the police force which couldn’t be farther from the truth. The mentality cops have that it’s okay to escalate situations and treat people in an inhumane manner is the root cause of the problems we see today. This is why the training process and entire police force needs to be revamped.
Mayors and city councils get to choose police chief. Those chiefs typically get to pick the top lieutenants.
True...I hope they dint vote for any of the antifa or other groups inciting violence.
Not according to the last couple pages here. This thread has taken a dark turn down police hating Antifa road.
I think the ones people are “hating” are those who seem to have actions that should be hated.
This is one of the fundamental problems that is difficult to grasp:
I must have missed the posts that hate the police. Can you maybe link some of them? Thx
I look at racism as a scale, not a binary condition.
The MPD Union president, Bob Kroll, received over 75% of the votes. He was a featured speaker at Trump's Minneapolis rally last fall.
Police are not heroes. They have a job they are getting paid for. If they can’t keep from abusing the populace, they should find a new job.
Honestly, even arresting those other 3 former cops isn't enough. There needs to be a nationwide demilitarizing and retraining of police departments to even get us started on the right path towards justice and peace.
The bar owner has been identified. There's a short video of the shooting in the tweet above. The bar owner is on the street outside supposedly taunting protesters. The person filming the video keeps yelling that he has a gun and "it isn't worth it" before a scuffle ensues and two shots are heard (the video then ends). I've heard allegations that the bar owner was yelling racial slurs, but it doesn't appear that you can hear either him or the people he's arguing with in the video of the shooting.
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Ugh that’s terrible. This year has been a horrific 1-2 punch to the economy. I hope insurance helps him
I highly doubt that anyone here is anti-police, but we are strongly against brutality being used on anyone in custody and posing zero threat, as well as being against excessive force in general.
I would like to hear how this is helping anyone? I mean our economy is screwed. I guess in the grand scheme of thing, what's a destruction of the city. But we're not really in a position to be pissing money away. As someone alluded to, the first thing to be cut from city and local budgets will be the same programs that help these folks. And it's our tax money that will be footing the bill for this. I guess for some, they don't mind?
I am legitimately surprised at how many media members have been targeted by police during these protests/riots.
I heard some crazy lady calling for the extermination of all cops to the crowd....like on a bullhorn
Yeah they switch audio between the streams. Previously it was in Minneapolis and the whole crowd was singing amazing grace
