Or they could have tinnitus from shooting someone ten times.
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Kumail Nanjiani
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Re: that awful video. Buffalo PD officially said that the man tripped & fell. If we didn’t have video there would have been no accountability. Why? Because one “bad apple” pushed him down but 20 “good apples” would have let him get away with it. It’s systemic.
12:38 AM · Jun 5, 2020
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These police forces are occupying troops, not peacekeepers. The populace is the enemy. The executive has already made clear that any not submitting are to be killed. (Protesters are terrorists; the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat; show no quarter.) The death squads have widened their range from merely assassinating non-white and anti-fascist activists – we’re all targets now.
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What about the twenty-some police who let it happen and did nothing to help or hold their colleagues responsible? Why aren’t they suspended?
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The blood actually gushed from his ear and pooled on the ground and they just walked on by. I’m dumbfounded and scared.
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The cops there are throwing a fit about the two officers being suspended for cracking that hippie’s head open
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Good they came to their senses. What a show of understanding that they were a part of the problem
Ah. Hmmm.
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And not just a fellow cop. It was his supervisor, who was wearing gold badge. He was essentially being ordered not to help the injured man.
Getting vibes of “We had to destroy the town in order to save it.”
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This video is a great case study in why the full, less-frequently-invoked phrase is “one bad apple can spoil the bunch.”
After the man is brutally shoved to the ground one officer appears to approach him with the intent of finding out if he’s alright, but one of his fellow officers quickly responds with a hand on the shoulder to lead him away. The culture of law enforcement is such that any officer who does show signs of restraint or compassion is quickly pressured to abandon such inclinations by his militant peers.
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Just by chance, I happened to catch the film Casualties of War the other day on Belgian TV of all places. If you’ve seen it, the shot of one officer moving on another who was wavering over stopping will strike a chord.
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They only resigned from their “special unit.” They’re still employed by Buffalo police. So, I guess they support the 2 assaulters, but not that much??? (Ugh.)
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Cops who don’t accept their roles as peacekeepers don’t belong in police work. This gang should be fired.
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"Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits. It is sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy.
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Symptoms:Boldness, high self-esteem, lack of empathy, inclination to violence and manipulation, impulsivity"
Only lack of empathy (and/or possible abuse of drugs and steroids) can produce such uncontrolled reaction against a completely innocuous person. Those armed psychopaths are the only real threat over there.
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You won’t get any arguments from me. I was just clarifying the misleading headline. If only they had all actually resigned.
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Yet more documentation that the “just a few bad apples” narrative continues to be horseshit.
I’m trying to imagine all the teachers in a school district taking a stand against the suspension of a colleague who struck and hospitalized one of the students entrusted to his care. I just can’t do it.
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The entire emergency response team “resigned” today in support of the shovers. By resigned I mean they still get paid but they are not on the emergency response team anymore, they will have to do their mayhem under a different rubric.
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So, in their community’s hour of need, they chose to show solidarity with two of their colleagues who inflicted a traumatic brain injury on a 75 year old, rather than continue their duty to serve and protect.
That tells us literally everything we need to know about them.
Good riddance!
Yet they remain employed as police officers.
I think this would be a good use for paid administrative leave, pending termination.
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These pieces of shit resigned in support of the officers that were suspended
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