Like, why is that in all-caps? Isn't that behavior the baseline assumption at this point?
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
What city is that?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
In the comments the poster says it's Salem, Oregon.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
I think it's more rage-caps.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
de blasio is just completely denying everything on the radio right now
Brian to mayor: can't you make the distinction between looters and peaceful protesters without kettling, arrests, violence, curfew?de Blasio to @BrianLehrer: "I'm not hearing objectivity in your question."— Kate Hinds (@katehinds) June 5, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
God, that video sets the gun-control part of me at war with the left should arm itself part of me, so bad.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
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
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
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?”
“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?”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
"sorry for our racial bias, excessive force and unacceptable behavior; now will you please say you're sorry for insulting us?"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
"if you wouldn't call me names I wouldn't have to hit you"
defund them all
― sleeve, Friday, 5 June 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
I am sorry. Are you?
Melania's got a new jacket to wear
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
even the best fall down sometimes
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
our behavior is unacceptable. are you sorry too?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 June 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
oh damn if y'all are so human maybe you shouldn't be a privileged class of totalitarian bullies
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Shea is such a stompable fucking potato
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Everybody send bags of shit to his house
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
I'm talking millions
we are sorry for beating you if you are sorry for complaining about us beating you
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
"stompable fucking potato" ❤️❤️❤️❤️ classic Morbsian wordplay that's great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
NYPD last night summarized, look at em all
https://twitter.com/jangelooff
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Threatening bystanders with arrest. “alright who wants to go to jail tonight?” pic.twitter.com/cOJYXp3UF6— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) June 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 June 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
It’s not a mural if it’s not on a mure!
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
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."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
muriel bowser's unmured mural
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
The shit being pulled by DiBlasio and the NYPD is fucking enraging.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the police response to attempts at reform might resemble police abolition.
― JoeStork, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
If we cut their salaries enough they'll all quit, sounds good to me.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
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!!
― frogbs, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
others were saying it was some other guy, so i'm not sure which one is true yet
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
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
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
#diversityofperspectives
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
they claim to represent diverse perspectives and have never let the coronavirus publish an op-ed, wtf
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Fascism: Is It Worth a Second Look?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
#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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
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.
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.
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Thanks!
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
57 fewer cops, so win win
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
hey guys, did you hear that 57 officers in Buffalo resigned from the Emergency Response Team
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
not even really though, they're still on the force
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
i was reading from the bottom up and thinking maybe they resigned because they were embarrassed. nope.
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
(I'm a little sad that this story isn't happening in Pittsburgh so we could make some Heinz 57 jokes without reaching)
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
yeah they didn't quit why bc they are chickenshit
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
headline should read "57 cops fail to resign for wrong reason"
wait
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
i hadn't realized that cops could just work whatever beat they wanted to
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
it's not a beat it's just a specialized unit with different uniforms and a few thousand extra pay
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
The union president's original statement defended the officers on the grounds that they were "simply executing olders" but legal made them change it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link