# I pit the cops who openly applauded police abuse today **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340 "2017-07-28T19:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/81 "2017-07-29T18:29:15Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Well, he was suspended for trolling. Then when I pointed this out, he denied he was trolling by using the reasoning that he didn’t agree with the suspension. When I pointed out that this was idiotic, he added me to the growing list of people who he ignores. Hell, he flat-out admitted on the Giraffeboards that he was baiting and **andy** took the bait. But that’s not trolling. Nope, nope, nope. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/82 "2017-07-29T18:34:19Z")
Hey, guys I found him! The black guy, found him. Somebody muffed it, usually tbg is positioned towards the center, directly behind the focus, which is Himself. But if the camera moves a bit to the right, and gets a different angle…there he is! ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/83 "2017-07-29T18:51:47Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > The mods, Colibri just a few posts above, pretty much know he’s a trolling asshole. I think they like to keep him around to remind him just how big an ignorant asshole he really is. Why does Clot stick around knowing how much he’s disliked?.. Because he likes the abuse, and deep down inside he knows he deserves it. Why the hell doesn’t he just hire a dominatrix and save us his drivel? As a recent member of _Snowflake’s Naughty List_, I still find it comical that the poster with, by far, the largest ignore list in Dope history calls other people pussies. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/84 "2017-07-29T19:52:19Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > And stop giving [pussies](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-11/4/14/enhanced/webdr11/enhanced-9507-1415129621-6.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) a bad rap! Wait, pussies, IN a box? Mind, blown. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/85 "2017-07-29T21:37:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > What a brilliant, scintillating example of a typical liberal response. I believe is was a literal response, not liberal ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/86 "2017-07-29T23:53:03Z")
Thankfully, actual law enforcement agencies aren’t falling in line with what the Infant-in-Chief said. [https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/police-push-back-against-trumps-lawandorder-speech](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/police-push-back-against-trumps-lawandorder-speech) > [@Clothahump](#): > > Liberalism truly is a mental disorder - it is arrested development. You people respond like five year old brats throwing a tantrum in a sandbox. And you do it Every. Single. Time. our president is a 70 year old rich man who sits up at night and insults people on Twitter because he thinks they were making fun of him. Who, exactly, is the brat? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/87 "2017-07-30T01:06:52Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Thankfully, actual law enforcement agencies aren’t falling in line with what the Infant-in-Chief said. > > [https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/police-push-back-against-trumps-lawandorder-speech](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/police-push-back-against-trumps-lawandorder-speech) Why is **Humper** in opposition to pretty much every single police department in the country? Does he hate “liberals” so much that he’ll shit on actual law enforcement now? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/88 "2017-07-30T01:12:04Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Why is **Humper** in opposition to pretty much every single police department in the country? Does he hate “liberals” so much that he’ll shit on actual law enforcement now? Because liberals refuse to treat suspects like the felons that they are. After all, if you didn’t commit the crime, why are you being arrested? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/89 "2017-07-30T01:32:29Z")
running coach wrote: “Because liberals refuse to treat suspects like the felons that they are. After all, if you didn’t commit the crime, why are you being arrested?” I hope that was sarcasm because, if not, I can’t believe that we still have to explain this shit to people. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/90 "2017-07-30T01:49:05Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > running coach wrote: “Because liberals refuse to treat suspects like the felons that they are. After all, if you didn’t commit the crime, why are you being arrested?” > > I hope that was sarcasm because, if not, I can’t believe that we still have to explain this shit to people. Of course it was sarcasm. You didn’t recognize **Clothy’s** insane “logic”? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/91 "2017-07-30T02:25:18Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I generally don’t engage with him in these sorts of threads, but I’m truly perplexed. Do people really believe that sincerely without noticing the irony at all (like in the White House, for instance)? I mean, I simply cannot believe someone can say that without either a) simply being a troll or b) are just so far fucking gone in loony toon land that what’s the point in engaging? (And, yes, I understand the irony that I actually did engage, but it’s just morbid curiosity, I guess.) The same reason some dudes think women are all over emotional and crazy when they’re huge drama queens themselves. The facts are absolutely on my side, yours are lies, so my upset is righteous anger at your tantrums. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/92 "2017-07-30T03:07:30Z")
Trump has praised dictators for cracking down on dissidents and he even [praised Duterte](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/trump-duterte-phone-transcript-philippine-drug-crackdown.html) for killing drug users in the streets. So this is part of an old pattern. > [@](#): > > Mr. Trump placed the call and began it by congratulating Mr. Duterte for the government-sanctioned attacks on drug suspects. The program has been widely condemned by human rights groups around the world because extrajudicial killings have taken thousands of lives without arrest or trial. In March, the program was criticized in the State Department’s annual human rights report, which referred to “apparent governmental disregard for human rights and due process.” > > Mr. Trump had no such reservations. “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” he said. “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.” > > Mr. Duterte responded that drugs were “the scourge of my nation now, and I have to do something to preserve the Filipino nation.” Mr. Trump responded that “we had a previous president who did not understand that,” an apparent reference to President Barack Obama, “but I understand that.” As for the cheering cops, I’d guess if you gave a psychological exam to people in the police and military they’d score higher than the general population on authoritarian tendencies. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/93 "2017-07-30T03:57:16Z")
I’m pleased if not particularly surprised to learn that even five-year old children in sandboxes are telling that Texan Trump supporter to fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/94 "2017-07-30T04:57:09Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Thankfully, actual law enforcement agencies aren’t falling in line with what the Infant-in-Chief said. Well, their PR arms aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/95 "2017-07-30T05:17:24Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Trump has praised dictators for cracking down on dissidents and he even [praised Duterte](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/trump-duterte-phone-transcript-philippine-drug-crackdown.html) for killing drug users in the streets. So this is part of an old pattern. Probably just to curry favour with Roddy. Duterte is a huge Hillary fan and disparaged Trump before the election. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/96 "2017-07-30T06:08:28Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Sigh. > > His remark was so typical, and so predictable, and so full of shit that is is a textbook liberal response. Let’s recap: > > You posted a statement: > > I felt that statement was incorrect. Now, I could taken a page from the liberal playbook and called you a liar straight up. Instead, I chose to assume that you were mistaken in what you heard and I asked you to clarify it: > > I did allow for the possibility that you fell into a typical liberal pit, which is to hear what you want to hear and not what was said. > > But instead of a clarification, **Mind’s Eye Watering** tossed this turd into the punchbowl: > > **Baron Greenback’s** turd splashed right next to it: > > This sort of stuff is why I say it is typical. It’s formulaic. Somebody posts something, I post a response, and I get shit like this in return. No intelligent thought, just childish, braindead namecalling from people who are supposedly adults. > > Liberalism truly is a mental disorder - it is arrested development. You people respond like five year old brats throwing a tantrum in a sandbox. And you do it Every. Single. Time. I notice that you didn’t respond to any of the people that actually answered your question about where Trump supported police brutality. In case you didn’t see them, here’s one of them: > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Try here > > [QUOTE=Richard Parker] > The relevant bit from the video: > > “When you see these towns, and you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon – you just see 'em thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice.’ Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head–the way you put the hand over–like, don’t hit their head, and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head? I said, ‘You can take the hand away, okay’.” Since you aren’t a liberal you may not be aware that people are innocent until proven guilty and that intentionally causing harm to defenseless suspects in the care of the state is not in holding with the concept of justice and the rule of law. So yes, that probably explains it. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/97 "2017-07-30T06:32:55Z")
**Colibri** , **Miller** , how much more of this is gonna be admissable? At _some_ point you either have to ban the troll or start warning people who keep feeding him. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/98 "2017-07-30T12:13:50Z")
Beginning to realize the truth about police on the street…they are scared shitless all the time and only beat up suspects to relieve that anxiety, make them feel better. Am I right? Are police terrified they will be ambushed…and terrified that the next person they encounter will pull a gun or knife and kill them? The alternative has to be some form of mental therapy, maybe even allowing them to take cannibis pills to take the edge off. Becoming the playground bully doesn’t make you safer. It makes you a target. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/99 "2017-07-30T12:44:59Z")
I’ll just leave this here: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-J6vbQvRk) (hilarious, to me at least, Chris Hayes interview of Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin regarding Trump’s remarks; Zeldin, to his credit, seems to give up his half-hearted whitewashing attempt about halfway through) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340/100 "2017-07-30T13:20:04Z")
Is there a specific source for the phrase “liberalism is a mental disorder”? I see it repeated quite frequently by comment trolls who, like **Clothahump** , show no capacity for original thought. Is it one of Limbaugh’s stale chestnuts? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-cops-who-openly-applauded-police-abuse-today/792340.md?page=6)