I'm seeing it, and the cops have no one to blame for it but themselves. This is the first time I've seen the "disband the police" topic be seriously discussed buy people in power to actually do it. The first time that lawmakers are looking to just replace their entire police force with something new because they are out of way to try and fix things. It is amazing to see people in power look at an organisation as large as the police and say "your culture is so toxic that we can't fix it" These cities aren't saying that they don't want law enforcement or emergency responders with authority to commit state sanctioned violence They are saying that the police organisations can't be trusted to do their jobs.
There's also this video that has been circulating twitter and Instagram. It makes me sick to my stomach to see this shit. https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268391718086422528 The cop gropes the female protester he's trying to restrain, so she pulls away. Then she gets beat by all his buddies.
It takes a certain piece of shit to wail away on a woman as she just stands there with her arms at her sides and taking the hits.
There’s a BLM demonstration in the city near we live right now. Police, sheriffs department, mayor, etc. all there in complete support and marching with them. There’s been rumors of agitators coming, ( police have been monitoring this ) rumors of pallets of bricks being dropped off. All rumors so far. Theres easily a couple thousand people there, and it’s peaceful. The city gets a lot of shit, and it does have its problems, but damn am I proud of it right now.
Reminder that most rumors of "agitators" are bullshit being seeded online by people who oppose the protests. There have been multiple instances so far of people showing up with guns to "protect" areas that were never under any threat, including one where locals felled several trees in order to block a biracial family from leaving their campsite on the theory they were "antifa."
voter registration surging amidst protests looks like people are doing something to force the change they're marching for
I would love to know if any of those fucking cowards knows what it’s like to have a steel pole cracked across your limbs full force. Hand me one, I bet you any money I’ll break your arms or legs with it in one swing. About ten times harder than a baseball bat. That’s when everybody should just beat the shit out of the cops, it would be justified there. You’re not a public servant at all. You’re just a sadist who like to beat women. There’s your brick target, ragers.
My favourite clip so far is the one where some asshole is busting up a curb with a mailing hammer to make weapons. The protesters swarm him, pick him up and literally THROW him into a gang of cops like they’re sacrificing him to a volcano. I died. That is teamwork. That coming together.
Speaking of teamwork, looks like law enforcement is teaming with coronavirus to stamp out black people. https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1268754050109014017
There is also this thread, which as of this post has over 300 tweets of videos of police brutality since May 31st. 5 days, 300 acts of brutality. And this is just the shit that got sent to Twitter. Imagine the stuff that didn't. https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266751520055459847?s=20
https://mobile.twitter.com/thehouseplug_/status/1268972107347701763?s=21 Downtown McAllen. And just this morning I was telling another board member that nothing of note has been happening down here.
My favorite line "The officers have not resigned from their police officer roles." So they resigned but not really in any way that will make the world a better place.
I guess they did achieve the police dream of paid leave without actually murdering. So good on them. I guess.
You may not know this, but it doesn’t really count if your fingers are crossed. wait until these assholes find out that nobody will care or notice that they “quit”. Less concussions this weekend. This will work out as well as the ‘99 umpire strike, it’s not like the entire research team of NASA just walked off the job. This is a bunch of thugs who just got their feelings hurt for getting called out. Good riddance.
Which I’ve pointed out every chance I got. And guess what? All those reports of pallets of bricks and what not were, as expected, complete bullshit.
If there were pallets of bricks being just dropped off they’d require a heavy truck and fork winch. Cameras would see this truck. You could easily find out who at least was behind the delivery and paper-trail it in no time. It’s a five-minute Columbo episode. ...and guess who put those bricks there? Fucking Soros and the Lizard People, as usual.