To be fair, your friend shouldn’t have expected civilized behaviour from greenskins in the first place. Orks iz made for fightin’ !
Valid point. I’ll mention that next time I see him.
Cops always say this, then they stand by silently and watch their co-workers do incredibly evil and outright illegal things without doing anything about it. The Blue Code says they can’t even criticize each other or they’re being disloyal to the Brotherhood.
So yeah, they get painted with a well deserved brush, because they’re as fucking guilty as the ones they allow to do that shit.
Call me back when we see police arresting each other for this bullshit before public outcry forces them to.
That sort of bonding is encoded in our very nature. It is why the common soldier is fiercely loyal to his “buddies” and will fight desperately and sacrifice himself to protect them, even if he knows that the mission is unworthy or even ignoble. Men who have been wounded or rotated out would crawl on hands and knees across a field of broken glass to get back to being terrorized or bored senseless, depending on the moment.
One can hold an authoritarian and bigoted asshole in well-deserved contempt. Or not, if one’s very life may depend upon him.
Perhaps there should be a uniform-decoration requirement for the police, similar to, like, campaign ribbons: each officer shall apply above their left breast pocket a white star for every time they have drawn their weapon; or a yellow star for every time they have fired their weapon; or a red star for every time a suspect has died while in or prior to being in their custody. That way, we, the citizens, would have an idea about who will be laying out the carpet of eggshells for us.
Well you see, black people are born that way and they’ve been historically marginalized as a minority. On the other hand, Police Man is a profession (one, I might add, that generally requires a certain aggressive disposition), not a genetic condition.
Let me know if you need me to use smaller words.
And for that asshole in Buffalo, NY who shot 49 dogs last year?
“No officer enjoys killing people’s pets” my ass.
Well, we’re paying the cops. And we give them the authority. And they tend to see themselves as a group and band together as a group. They’re a fucking Union, fer chrissakes.
Its pretty damn rare for a department or a union to come out and say “That guy is a dick, and he’s on his own!” Usually, they say “He is one of us and we are standing with him, defending him”*. In light of that, painting them with the same brush is kinda unavoidable.
[sub]* paraphrasing, of course[/sub]
As opposed to slamming half of a citizen’s entire body into the ground? :rolleyes: Of course you hate to think, but I won’t hold it against you.
Meanwhile, citizens called the police because there was a fight on the pool’s grounds. Citizens also called the police to handle some 100 to 130 out of control, unwelcome, guests who were invading a privately owned pool. An officer was dispatched to the area and ordered people to start leaving the area. More officers arrived.
Yellow bikini was repeatedly told to leave. She refused. Her choice. She was then forcibly detained, keyword - forcibly. Two other assholes rushed the officer who was making the arrest. Other officers arrived and arrested one of those assholes.
If you want to body slam puppies for piddling, that’s your idea, and your problem.
What, no Star of David pinned to their clothes?
She lived. I don’t know why that would disappoint you. Or are you crying tears of joy?
That this was being looked into has been mentioned in this thread, but here’s an update.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us--cleveland-police-shoot-boy-20150611-story.html
A Judge has said that there is enough evidence, and probable cause to charge Tamir Rice’s alleged murderers with crimes like: murder, reckless homicide and dereliction of duty, among other things. No lawyer me, but my understanding is that his finding is in no way binding to the DA’s office, unless they, you know, feel like prosecuting.
It is not binding, and the prosecutor intends to take the case to a grand jury.
You know, that part is even mentioned in the link I provided. :smack:
(I should read more slowly sometimes.)
So, again, you are saying it’s okay to make generalizations about ALL police based on the actions of a few, because it is a profession, and they choose to be in that profession, they are not born as police?
The small words “yes” or “no” will suffice, if you can manage that.
And I’ll ask the same thing to you: You think it is okay to generalize about all police, based on the actions of a few? Yes or no will suffice.
Yes.
When we see officers standing up in public and saying “Fuck that asshole! We are not like that,” then we will stop generalizing. And no mealy-mouth equivocation about how maybe he went too far, we want to hear firm repudiation of excessive force. Because, so far, these guys are starting to look like they need uniforms that have a big yellow stripe down the back.
Well, thank you for answering. Do you further feel it is okay to generalize about other groups that are formed by the choice of the members, based on the actions of some of the members? Or do you feel that only the police deserve this type of generalization?