Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

meanwhile Erick Erickson has a monthly meeting w/his conscience:

Are any of you people who consider yourselves part of the conservative movement and spent two weeks engaged in whataboutism, character assassination, rumor, and innuendo to try to apologize for the McMichaels going to apologize? Do you have anything to say for yourselves?

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 5, 2020

let the healing begin:

Dermot F. Shea, New York City’s police commissioner, apologized on Thursday for any instances of police misconduct over the past several days.

But, during a brief news conference at Police Headquarters, he also demanded that demonstrators stop insulting and attacking his officers, warning that anti-police rhetoric could lead to continued violence against the people he oversees.

“For there to be calm, there must also be contrition,” Mr. Shea said. “So I am sorry. Sometimes even the best — and the N.Y.P.D. is the goddamned best police department in the country — but sometimes even the best fall down.”

He added: “So for our part in the damage to civility, for our part in racial bias, in excessive force, unacceptable behavior, unacceptable language and many other mistakes, we are human. I am sorry. Are you?”

"sorry for our racial bias, excessive force and unacceptable behavior; now will you please say you're sorry for insulting us?"

"if you wouldn't call me names I wouldn't have to hit you"

defund them all

I am sorry. Are you?

Melania's got a new jacket to wear

even the best fall down sometimes

our behavior is unacceptable. are you sorry too?

oh damn if y'all are so human maybe you shouldn't be a privileged class of totalitarian bullies

Shea is such a stompable fucking potato

Everybody send bags of shit to his house

I'm talking millions

we are sorry for beating you if you are sorry for complaining about us beating you

"stompable fucking potato" ❤️❤️❤️❤️ classic Morbsian wordplay that's great

NYPD last night summarized, look at em all

https://twitter.com/jangelooff

Threatening bystanders with arrest. “alright who wants to go to jail tonight?” pic.twitter.com/cOJYXp3UF6

— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) June 5, 2020

Wow, it’s done! New “Black Lives Matter” Mural painted in #WashingtonDC on road to White House (16th St.)

They started at 3:00 am & just finished. Mayor Bowser approved it: pic.twitter.com/kqmknUOaDR

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) June 5, 2020

It’s not a mural if it’s not on a mure!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/police-riots.html

Jamelle Bouie opinion piece at NYT - "The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It."

muriel bowser's unmured mural

The shit being pulled by DiBlasio and the NYPD is fucking enraging.

haha, but also fuck these guys

L.A.’s police union is decidedly *not pleased* with what Mayor Garcetti said in the @latimes pic.twitter.com/YZLpjneLAZ

— Emily Alpert Reyes (@AlpertReyes) June 5, 2020

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the police response to attempts at reform might resemble police abolition.

If we cut their salaries enough they'll all quit, sounds good to me.

What will you do now that you’ve asked for the public’s help and found out he was a cop? Hi, retired Deputy Chief John Damskey! Did I mention his son, Michael, is a cop? pic.twitter.com/uBoOBSYW7P

— Alex (@anywayalexx) June 5, 2020

I'm shocked!! Shocked, I tell you!!

others were saying it was some other guy, so i'm not sure which one is true yet

feels gross that NYT should get to run that sensible Bouie op-ed as if to scrub the memory of the Cotton one, luckily it seems unlikely to work for that purpose

#diversityofperspectives

You need to run op-eds that say black lives matter, and also op eds that say they don't matter, so people can hear from all sides.

they claim to represent diverse perspectives and have never let the coronavirus publish an op-ed, wtf

Fascism: Is It Worth a Second Look?

#BREAKING: I’m told the entire @BPDAlerts Emergency Response Team has resigned from the team, a total of 57 officers, as a show of support for the officers who are suspended without pay after shoving Martin Gugino, 75. They are still employed, but no longer on ERT. @news4buffalo

— Dave Greber (@DaveGreber4) June 5, 2020

kind of lol but mostly sad

A special squad on the Buffalo Police department – the Emergency Response Team – has resigned from their posts, according the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.

The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing them pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury. 

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.
 
The special response unit was formed in 2016 and is deployed to manage mass protests or riots.

two of their members, who were simply executing orders

It is imperative we find out who gave these orders to gravely injure unarmed old men.

Thanks!

57 fewer cops, so win win

hey guys, did you hear that 57 officers in Buffalo resigned from the Emergency Response Team

57 fewer cops, so win win

not even really though, they're still on the force

i was reading from the bottom up and thinking maybe they resigned because they were embarrassed. nope.

(I'm a little sad that this story isn't happening in Pittsburgh so we could make some Heinz 57 jokes without reaching)

yeah they didn't quit why bc they are chickenshit

headline should read "57 cops fail to resign for wrong reason"

wait

i hadn't realized that cops could just work whatever beat they wanted to

it's not a beat it's just a specialized unit with different uniforms and a few thousand extra pay

The union president's original statement defended the officers on the grounds that they were "simply executing olders" but legal made them change it

not that i know this particular department but it is the same everywhere; some departments name their SWAT team something different so this could be theirs as well xp

Supporting elder abuse to own the Libs

— Mitch Robson (@_mitchrobson) June 5, 2020

just got threatened by an ex-military guy who lives here for calling out his racism when he infiltrated a friend's thread with his racist shit. FB profile is a treasure trove of anti-black protester sentiment, and he went after my friends with sexist barbs.

I immediately called him out on what it was, and he backed off of it ("what threat, we're just talking, you civilian!"). but i'm plenty taking it serious.

reported him to FB - what's the over/under on whether they actually remove his shit and ban him, or if they ban me instead for the names i called him?

boy you would think people would know better than to give the nazi "just following orders" defense anymore

that was crowdsourced even more telling. nobody said "hmm I think I've heard this phrase before"?

#ZBELLION

Documents obtained by @nickturse via FOIA reveal the Pentagon has planned for "a scenario in which members of Generation Z, driven by malaise and discontent, launch a 'Zbellion' in America in the mid-2020s." https://t.co/cigpi9ubkV

— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) June 5, 2020