Yeah the whole wearing masks thing seems like not such a good idea right now especially if the firing starts.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Gee, you think? How is our masked society working out so far?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Wtf

This is why there are nightly riots right now.

If people want the riots to go away, perhaps start addressing the corrupt entity we call police in this country

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Hopefully we can spread this and keep the rioting going.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Sure it is.

Clown.

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The rioting is about stealing. Protesting is about the police.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Bad bad bad.

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I think we are all put in a better situation with police reform, even the police.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

uh huh, what were your thoughts on the protesting when Kap peacefully kneeled?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Keep burying your head in the sand and maybe one day you'll reach the point where you say enough and recognize the problem as well.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

^

Is it too much to ask that police be held to the same standard as any other citizen in this country?

Apparently for many that's too big of an ask.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

says who?

Yes it is.

Every other citizen isn't required to step into the breach every day. They have a duty heightened far beyond that of a normal citizen.

Just as an example: you want officers who stood by as Floyd laid there with a knee in his neck to be prosecuted. Should that apply to all the citizens who stood around watching. Should the Stoneman Douglas on site cop only be held to the requirements of the average citizen

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

People should just stop filming.

Isn't there case law with that?

If it is there job to prevent crime, shouldn't they be held to that standard? I mean, if your house is burning and you call the fire dept to put it out, but they just come and watch it burn, that seems to be a problem. If someone is bleeding to death when taken to the hospital, and the doctor just watching him bleed out, that is a problem.

The police in this case were more than bystanders. They were active participants.

The more accurate comparison for GD to have used would be gang members who are with the killer at the time but didn't pull the trigger.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

You are missing the point. Of course they have a duty and it is a duty far beyond that of the normal citizen. A balance to that enhanced duty is enhanced protection in carrying out that duty.

I think I could be on board for alteration of presumptions in their immunity. Should it be the same as a citizen? No.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You mean felony murder?

That requires that all of them conspired in advance with the possibility of the harm a reasonable result of the conspiracy.

by the way, as you Fuck 12, that rule isn't exactly deemed universally acceptable by society

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yes. I still await an answer to my post of yesterday or the day before. I wonder if anyone knows what black cops think about all of this. Particularly, I would imagine internal strife about the thin blue line. Or do they become one of them for lack of a better term?

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Elections have consequences.

Is nobody else willing to apply even the tiniest amount of skepticism to this?

I am not going to defend the police that stood by as I want them charged. Hypothetically though I can see a case where they say I knew this fucker was bat shit crazy and feared him shooting us if I did take him of Floyd's neck.

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Elections have consequences.

He appears to have a back but no back brace on. Police actions were justified.

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For all of those whose solution is V-O-T-E:

We have an african american county board president, mayor, state's attorney and police chief, and have (except for mayor) for at least half a decade. Baltimore not only had all of those but the offending officers were african american

It's depressing to think that even holding the seat of power and with political momentum, the solutions are still distant

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I get you. I meant more the sergeants, LTs and uniformed black cops standing right next to the white ones.

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Elections have consequences.

That he was riling people up using bad data. And look at the result.

It seems like 3 out of 10,000 arrests of violent criminals who are black result in deaths. The number is 4 in 10,000 for white people. So the rally cry never should have been Black Lives Matter, it should have been demand better policing for all. We are all Americans together.

And it also should not have been this is hopeless. We are hopelessly racist. We can see what a lawless society looks like now. And while you my enjoy carrying a gun and being your own police it doesn't work as well for many people including some of the most marginalized people in society.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Cop at the beginning tells him to put his hands back (or up, not sure) while his partner is kneeling on his other arm. Same thing happens at the end of the video while his partner continues to punch him.

WTF is there to be skeptical about?

They don't call him WhattaFuckinRacist for nothin

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