Thank you for finally admitting that you believe police can and should do whatever they want.
I do not believe police can and should do whatever they want. I believe the police can and should be allowed to use the appropriate means to carry out the duty the law and the people have placed upon them without being subjected to constant scrutiny and criticism by the mob on the basis that the act of them doing their job is distasteful to watch.
Do you believe the police should not be allowed to do whatever they want?
I believe the police are subject to the same rule of law as the rest of society, as qualified by the fact that the state has invested them with the right to use physical and/or lethal force for the purpose of carrying out their duties.
I’ll take that as a “yes”. It may prove useful.
Glad to hear that you have changed your mind and want to join the human race.
Of course given your dozens of posts to the contrary, I don’t believe you have truly changed your colours. Time will tell.
How much time? Until the next obvious murder that you deny.
When one of these “obvious murderers” gets convicted of murder, we’ll talk.
Smapti what do you say now that surveillance of the cops in the nearby Burger King combing through footage has surfaced?
Still convinced this was impossible and the manager was lying?
How about this video?
Screencaps show Chicago PD tampering with Burger King video of Laquan McDonald murder
Well, there’s deletion of two videos in question here that Smapti claims didn’t happen (because cops would never do this):
The University of Maryland student, and
The Chicago Burger King video
Because it’s not possible on a local level (or something) that files could be deleted. Maybe the Burger King cops were worried about their spouses finding out they violated their diet–burn that footage of ordering a Double Whopper Meal–nothing to do with anything else.
Shouldn’t a Smapti be arguing that deleting the videos was absolutely right and proper, because the cops did it?
Well, forget it Jake, that’s a given in** Smaptitown**.
I’m very sympathetic to this point, but it is also important to keep in mind that other people go through traumas as bad or worse and are not rendered inhuman as a result. Although I have sympathy for people’s suffering, I believe we still nevertheless bear responsibility for how we respond.
At that link I just see a blurry still photo, and a video newsreport that speaks of the blurry still. Where is the evidence of tampering?
A this point I’m happy to give the Burger King manager far more credence than the police, and I suppose there is clear evidence of the tampering. But I don’t see it here.
Again:
Well, forget it Jake, that’s a given in** Smaptitown**. Police are impeachable in their testimony–any difference is pro-criminal liberalism!
Smapti can watch a crystal clear video of cops beat the shit out of a kid lying on the ground and not attacking them and conclude that the kid was injured by a horse and that he probably deserved it anyway. There is nothing that will convince him.
The only good thing is that he’s too broken of a person to ever get into a position of power himself.
Even worse–Smapti concludes that the kid probably attacked the horse-mounted officer.
This is probably not terribly surprising, but I wonder how widespread this is. Hopefully the Justice Department is looking into it.
Imagine how it would feel to go to prison based on evidence planted by racist cops – once they get out, how could they respond in any other way than believing, with good cause, that the police are their enemy, and teaching their children that the police are their enemy?
Fuckers like this have harmed America enormously, and more than just the individuals affected.
No, those screencaps show the Chicago PD looking at a video which didn’t show the shooting. The state attorney says there’s no evidence the police tampered with the files. Moreover, we already know what the video would have shown, thanks to Van Dyke’s dashboard cam - the suspect running away along the sidewalk in front of the BK and the officer briefly driving over the curb to pursue him. To insist that the department hacked a major corporation and tampered with evidence in order to conceal evidence of a moving violation, which wasn’t illegal under the circumstances anyway, and which there was also still existing video of from another source, is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.