Hey, look at that, we agree on something. Just maybe not for the reasons you think.
Remember, you're defending a police officer who beat a journalist over the head from behind with his baton, then kept beating her in the head after she was on the ground trying to cover her face with her hands. And you're praising his fellow officers who refused to intervene despite it being explicitly against department policy to strike someone in the head unless there is cause to employ deadly force.
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Conservatives really need to get off this ridiculous talking point.
There would be no protests destroying property, and professional pussies in law enforcement wouldn't be "afraid of doing their jobs" if they had decided decades ago to stop shielding those who abused their positions from the just consequences of their actions. Consequences which include (but aren't limited to) people viewing US police as a whole as little more than a lawless gang of thugs who exist solely to make everyone's lives worse...and the resentment, anger, and violence that comes with that sentiment.
That's because there was no case for most of those arrests.
I mean, it's the one charge. One officer, who is caught on video attacking a woman in the back of the head with his baton, repeatedly, as she's trying to get away. And he was only charged with a misdemeanor.
And you think this shit is somehow inappropriate? I honestly have no idea how you can defend this.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Almost like there's largely a lack of evidence to support prosecuting people aggressively arrested by the police without cause, while there's like, tons of video evidence of police assaulting people.
The cases aren't thrown out because of "librul DA's" for the most part, they're thrown out because the police have little short of, "Cause I said so." to support many of the charges.
This is buffalo PD resigning from their respective task force in "solidarity" with the two officers who were under investigation at the time for almost murdering Martin Gugino for the crime of trying to give officers back one of their helmets. Remember that? When the old guy was on the sidewalk bleeding from his skull, and an officer who started kneeling to check on him was grabbed by another officer as the line of cops marched forward? Where not an officer actually checked on him, just the few NG members who were there and apparently aren't cool with casual attempted murder and casual violence?
You sound pretty sympathetic for a police force, the PPB, that's still under federal supervision for extensive issues including excessive use of force and lying in police reports and shit. There's a reason most folks in Portland hate Portland cops.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
@Kellhound only defends Liberty until ut gets in the way of Order.
- Lars
Oh I am sure I know why you want to see it.
Nope, didnt defend the officer. Nope, didn't praise the officers that quit either. I did explain why their actions are understandable.
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Well, the city DOES support violent criminals, so long as they as they are rioters.
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The same can be said of the rioters as being nothing more than a lawless gang of thugs. Oh wait, they are nothing more than a lawless gang of thugs....
You just want the whole department to resign because you seem to think it's "unfair". Totes different?
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020...est-cases.html
They don't, that's balderdash. They prosecuted crimes, they dropped charges on most of the folks because the charges were "interfering with police" for the most part, which are garbage, trumped up charges from a police department still under federal oversight and still not complying - https://www.opb.org/article/2021/02/...ral-oversight/
And those with felony charges are being charged. Those that engaged in violence or property destruction are being charged.
People harassed and picked up by the cops for being on the streets and being charged with "interfering with police", which is almost always a bogus charge, are having charges dropped by the DA because for most of them they were simply expressing their First Amendment rights, which the PPB found terribly inconvenient.
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No, but you seem to view all protests as "riots" and all attendees as "rioters" regardless of their actual behavior.