same ones that did this the day before:Wait... what?
57 (FIFTY SEVEN) people resigned because the cops who pushed and critically injured an elderly man, got a slap on the wrist, and they feel bad... for the cops?
Huh.
FUCK
ACAB because "the good ones" don't stay cops long. They're lucky if the worst that happens is wrongful termination.
It's all just copaganda to them. They don't care.just to remind people, these are also the same officers that took a knee 24 hours before
Lol, gmta. https://twitter.com/abellwillring/status/1268989911643930624Oh did they do the right
Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no. I should have guessed.
Not to take away from your point, but they did kneel with protestors.And you'll note that they didn't even go as far as to take a knee with protestors like some departments - it was only cops there, and staged for the cameras.
Fine.
Those cops can fuck off and not reapply elsewhere. Show solidarity for the people who need it, not your creepy police cult.
wow what a beautiful display of solidarity
Yeah, the very few incidents I come across like that, the cop doing the right thing has been fired. It's been clear for awhile that it's not bad apples, but often common expected behavior.The thread title really needs to be updated. That article's headline is very misleading too.
They quit the Emergency Response Team Unit in protest, they did not resign from the force.
The very least that should happen is that they are all fired without recompense, and blacklisted from ever working in law enforcement again; but there should be greater consequences than this.
ACAB because "the good ones" don't stay cops long. They're lucky if the worst that happens is wrongful termination.
As this incident shows, there are no "bad apples" in the force - the entire institution is rotten to its core.
It's all just copaganda to them. They don't care.
And you'll note that they didn't even go as far as to take a knee with protestors like some departments - it was only cops there, and staged for the cameras.
Fair enough. I had only seen shots from the other angle where it was only cops.Not to take away from your point, but they did kneel with protestors.
First respond I had when I read it.
After a week, I went from "why would you want to disband the ENTIRE police force" to, yep, "those bitches are unchecked and need to be defunded."
Yep. Cops themselves, the people who knew these pathetic pricks as co-workers, should have been the first ones to speak up about ripping off their badges. "Good cops" should have never accepted any of the"he tripped" narrative and it shouldn't have required two videos from two different angles to force them to tell the truth. The "good cops" in that line should have instantly went to assist the man one of their own just assaulted. People need to stop pretending "good cops" count for anything if they stay silent or outright excuse or defend unequivocally horrible behavior like this. Nobody has the time to give a fuck about some random "good cop's" feelings when they aren't even putting up even a rice grain's worth of the same effort black and brown people put in to hold police accountable at a level that matches the power we give them. They have zero legs to stand on when protesters care more about protecting and serving this old man & the multitude of other people we've seen being brutalized than the institution that we pay to do that job.
They are not resigning from the force, they just quit their emergency response team assignment
That's the entire riot team? Thought it would be way more than 57 people. Police are not actually equipped to handle riots at all then lol.
All cops are fucking bastards. I say it loud and proud!
Saw this in the other thread. Comes down to money, the union says they won't provide legal counsel to the cops who might get sued during the protests.
help me understand:
we are being told that bad police are rare bad apples and we should still trust the cops? even after we have videos from almost every city this week showing police break procedure, laws, and worse? even when swathes of cops will enforce this code of silence for their peers when visibly in the wrong on tape?
"Our position is these officers were simply following orders from Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia to clear the square," Evans said. "It doesn't specify clear the square of men, 50 and under or 15 to 40. They were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made. He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards."
Cops: I was just following orders, I had no choice.
Also Cops: I always had the choice of not being on this squad without losing my job.
Wait, did they resign because what the two officers did was fucked up
or because they're butthurt two officers got suspended and are figuring out what accountability is for the first time.