Well, thanks for pissing in my Cheerios favrefan.

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So what happens the next time somebody locks himself in a school and starts mowing kids down? Beat on the door with a night stick?
Terrorist attack?

These situations require "military" type responses. Perhaps we could mandate that police officers use common sense as to when to use military techniques? That would probably fix the problem.

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Sometimes I completely understand why people think you're a bit touched in the head.

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well what exactly are we talking about when people say we need to "de-militarize" the police?

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I don't know why, but Don's response made me lol.

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But it's true right? That's the point I was trying to convey in your political philosophies thread. As long as the vast majority of people are ok with the status quo, it wont change.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Probably.

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That's not the part I meant ... or quoted.

Your direct comparison of some idiot asswipe kid rolling a quickie mart guy for Swisher Sweets and then getting drilled in the back multiple times by a cop with heretofore no stated good reason (or, for that matter, denial of) to terrorism or someone shooting up a school is just fucking dopey and that's literally the most Christian way I can bring myself to describe it.

The part about getting some fucking sense into how we allow outselves to be policed intelligently is fine however, great even.

That's why I excised the part that was fine and pointed out the aforementioned fucking dopey part.

I like you. You're a nice guy. That's why when you post things that make me want to sodomize you with a Tuscon cactus - kinda like I feel about jpasta and 85% of his Cubs thoughts - it's far, far, far more infuriating than when some board cuntrags like racist painters or cum-and-cocaine-loving lawyers post whatever it is they post.

I've got a good shit to go take, then a stop at the post office, a trip to the liquor store (for ice, thanks), and then I have a small town parade to go dick around with / quasi-manage / be Johnny Sociable at. Didn't see that last part coming, eh? Funny world.

Everybody's great. Have a fine day. Peace and love, peace and love.

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- Henry George

CNBC just reported that the cop was black


He's not


https://www.facebook.com/darren.wilson.7982?fref=nf

But that's what I was talking about: "de-militarization." I don't know what that means, nor can I come up with my own definition of it, whereby it would be an obviously good thing.

What exactly are people disagreeing with here, that cops should not shoot people in the back?

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oops

The British police generally don't carry guns, and for a long time, never carried guns at all. Some police forces have the equipment of the U.S. military. Now you figure out whether local police departments need tanks and heavy arms. I think it is obvious what de-militarization means, and you're probably just being cute.

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were tanks or heavy arms used in this instance?

Of course, cops in Britain don't need guns. NOBODY has guns there.

the militarization was in response to 9-11 terrorist attacks and assorted mass shootings.

I don't think cops need tanks and heavy artillery. But there was a public hew and cry and subsequent government funding for this stuff.

I don't see how this relates to a kid getting into a scuffle with a cop and getting shot in the back.

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Was the robbery from a different day? Did the kid go home and change clothes? If the officer wasn't stopping him for the robbery then what was the point of releasing the name and the video at the same time?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

No. The Pentagon started giving away free equipment in 1997.

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GO BEARS!!!

CPD had shields helmets and tear gas in the 60s too.

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Officer Fredo, ladies and gentlemen. I can handle things, I'm smaht!

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Stop resisting arrest! We're seeing police kill and abuse people daily but it's not their fault.

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GO BEARS!!!

A smart person would have learned from his stupidity after the Trayvon Martin situation, but unfortunately, you aren't so bright.

When you bring up possible criminal records on Martin and Brown, you are justifying the police executing people in the street, in broad daylight.

Why are you so angry Steve? Has the acting career not taken off as expected?

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I'll bet Steve, and his small pecker syndrome, is jealous of these cops in full military regalia.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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Did you spit in the sandwich first, like Dominic in Casino?

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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Ok good, now we're getting somewhere. Earlier you didn't know what de-militarization meant. Since you seem to understand what militarization is, de-miliatarization is the opposite or undoing of the first.

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if that is how you are defining it, what the hell does it have to do with this case?

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You must have missed the response by the police.

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GO BEARS!!!

Are you playing dumb on purpose? Come on, you're a mayor of a violent suburb. I think you understand perfectly well. If you don't, then please go sit for the GED test, and be sure to study hard.

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OK, so we're talking about the repression of the subsequent protestors? I can see a link there, but that kind of behavior has been occurring forever, long before cops had tanks.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

BTW, IMO cops should just let rioters riot. let 'em burn the town down. not really worth anyone getting killed over.

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Cops in full military gear with assault weapons and military vehicles?

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GO BEARS!!!

cool story, bro