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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 16:32:37 GMT -5
Interestingly, it's since come out that they were instructed to by the police union, under threat.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Jun 8, 2020 16:38:50 GMT -5
Police unions, historically, have always been shit and gone far past what a union should reasonably be doing.
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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Jun 8, 2020 18:29:01 GMT -5
What does this "legal backing" means exactly?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 20:35:47 GMT -5
What does this "legal backing" means exactly? In this case, it means that if any of them come up on charges or get disciplinary actions, the union will deliberately let them swing. |
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Post by hatoflords on Jun 9, 2020 3:18:09 GMT -5
You know, the sad part is they're not entirely wrong.
There is something fundamentally unfair about individual cops being where the buck stops in these matters. Sure, they did the pushing but it's not like city governments, police unions, and entire departments haven't enabled this behavior for years and years. I'm not unsympathetic to the cries of foul coming from the blue line. They have a point. Law enforcement cannot function as if it were its own world where outsiders hold no accountability. Shit is never going to work if that isn't on the long list of things that need to change.
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Jun 9, 2020 3:58:13 GMT -5
What this really highlights is how that police union is not really a union, or that it is unworkable as a union. It is more akin to a protection racket without the actual strength to do the protecting.
A union should not withdraw support from any paying member unless said member has, through their own actions, broken the rules of conduct agreed to by the union with the employer. In this case that would be the official police procedures with regards to crowd control, detaining suspects etc.
The two officers who shoved over the old man and left him lying on the floor with a cracked skull have absolutely broken those rules as I doubt it is written anywhere that that is a proper method of doing any police work. Also, it speaks volumes that the only people who went to administer first aid were the two national guardsmen (I assume, judging by their clothing) and that the police were actively preventing other police from assisting the man.
What the union should not be allowed to do is to blanket withdraw support and representation from its members regardless of their individual actions. That is either a breach of contract with your union members or an acceptance that none of your members is capable of following, or willing to follow, proper procedure.
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Post by adurot on Jun 9, 2020 4:32:37 GMT -5
I believe I read those two were State police, not Guard.
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Post by adurot on Jun 9, 2020 8:14:44 GMT -5
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Jun 9, 2020 8:28:05 GMT -5
Just wait until Trump finds that conspiracy theory on George Floyd not really being dead and having faked it. Its already making its rounds in the alt right/Qanon crowd, can't be long before Trump picks it up.
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Post by adurot on Jun 9, 2020 16:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by lonestarr777 on Jun 9, 2020 18:51:32 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX7v9LzYVY8 I dunno what's more disgusting. That Trump claims that the seventy-five year old man who was assaulted by a pair of douchebags was faking it as an 'ANTIFA Provocateur', or the comments below this video of Russian bots and retards who need to be sterilized buying it hook like and sinker. He's not yet claiming George Floyd faked his death but some vile people in the comments are, give him time, I'm sure that'll slip out of his fat cake-hole. This nation is disgusting. I don't have any pride left in being an American.
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Jun 10, 2020 11:37:51 GMT -5
This tweet should be taken as proof that forces under his directions are acting as agents provocateur to justify police brutality. The guy has a compulsion to accuse others of illegal or immoral actions he is taking himself. |
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Post by adurot on Jun 10, 2020 18:07:05 GMT -5
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Jun 11, 2020 1:37:07 GMT -5
The worst part of that whole article was learning that in that CNN poll, the majority of respondents still think Trump would do a better job on the economy than Biden, seems being short sighted on it really works. |
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Jun 11, 2020 16:08:30 GMT -5
Has anyone told Trump that it might be a tad stupid to use the abbreviation S.S for secret service?
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