[News] The USA Police State will never satisfy its lust for beating, gassing, and imprisoning minorities

Heh, "raisin cobbler stuff." That's "bread pudding." If I might be forgiven for going off topic, the brits are very confused about what "pudding" is.

Hint - if it retains its own shape, or has meat in it, it isn't pudding.
In British English, "pudding" basically means dessert. You have sentences like "you can't have any pudding if you don't eat your veg."

So a bread pudding basically means "bread-based sweet thing".

Also, bread pudding is awesome, and I will sexually harass anyone who says otherwise.
 

GasBandit

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In British English, "pudding" basically means dessert. You have sentences like "you can't have any pudding if you don't eat your veg."

So a bread pudding basically means "bread-based sweet thing".

Also, bread pudding is awesome, and I will sexually harass anyone who says otherwise.
I challenge you to tell me how black pudding is "sweet."
 

GasBandit

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Well sure, if you stick M&Ms in it, even blood sausage gets sweet, but until you posted that I'd never heard of anybody doing that.
 
I know the discussion has moved on, but I felt like sharing this.


The movie Selma is coming out in a couple weeks and I wonder who at the time those events took place saw the photos of what happened back then and thought "They should've just done what the police said." Certainly my grandparents.
 

GasBandit

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I know the discussion has moved on, but I felt like sharing this.


The movie Selma is coming out in a couple weeks and I wonder who at the time those events took place saw the photos of what happened back then and thought "They should've just done what the police said." Certainly my grandparents.
PUDDING MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU EAT IT
 
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...-twitter-users-seize-ex-boulder-cop-convicted

Twitter users are seizing on a notorious Boulder case in which an ex-cop not only was charged in connection with a killing, but convicted by a jury, as well.
Why?
Because the victim in Boulder's most infamous police killing was an elk.
more here: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_25885253

The goal, he said, was to get at least one felony on Carter's record so he could never serve as a police officer again, but he added Carter has no prior criminal record and that sending an ex-cop to prison is a "complex" issue.
lol

The death of the elk, named "Big Boy" by some residents, sparked outrage and immediate calls for action against Carter and fellow Boulder police officer Brent Curnow, who picked up the carcass.
just gonna throw a little guess out there, the outrage came from rich people?

But at least Boulder folks also protested the killing of an actual human being

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_27090627/boulder-sheriff-planned-protest-shut-down-u-s
 

GasBandit

Staff member
just gonna throw a little guess out there, the outrage came from rich people?
It's Boulder. There are no poor people there, unless you count CU students who've rolled up all the spending money their parents gave them, packed it in a bowl and blazed it up. Homeless types would tend to freeze to death.

(I'm speaking in hyperbole - Boulder is a notorious party/college town up in the mountains just northwest of Denver. Many of the people I went to high school with ended up there, and spent most of their time in a stinky blue haze. I was kind of the odd man out, going to New Mexico Tech instead.)
 
It's Boulder. There are no poor people there, unless you count CU students who've rolled up all the spending money their parents gave them, packed it in a bowl and blazed it up. Homeless types would tend to freeze to death.

(I'm speaking in hyperbole - Boulder is a notorious party/college town up in the mountains just northwest of Denver. Many of the people I went to high school with ended up there, and spent most of their time in a stinky blue haze. I was kind of the odd man out, going to New Mexico Tech instead.)
So... peyote instead of marijuana?
 
Lt Daniel Furseth said:
Today, I stopped caring about my fellow man. I stopped caring about my community, my neighbors, and those I serve. I stopped caring today because a once noble profession has become despised, hated, distrusted, and mostly unwanted.
I stopped caring today because parents refuse to teach their kids right from wrong and blame us when they are caught breaking the law. I stopped caring today because parents tell their little kids to be good or “the police will take you away” embedding a fear from year one. Moms hate us in their schools because we frighten them and remind them of the evil that lurks in the world.
They would rather we stay unseen, but close by if needed, but readily available to “fix their kid.” I stopped caring today because we work to keep our streets safe from mayhem in the form of reckless, drunk, high, or speeding drivers, only to be hated for it, yet hated even more because we didn’t catch the drunk before he killed someone they may know.
Nevertheless, we are just another tool used by government to generate “revenue.” I stopped caring today because Liberals hate the police as we carry guns, scare kids, and take away their drugs. We always kill innocent people with unjust violence. We are called bullies for using a Taser during a fight, but are condemned further for not first tasing the guy who pulls a gun on us.
And if we do have to shoot, we are asked “why didn’t you just shoot the gun out of their hand?” And when one of us is killed by the countless attacks that do happen (but are rarely reported in the mainstream media) the haters say, “Its just part of the job.” I stopped caring today because Conservatives hate us as we are “the Government.” We try to take away their guns, freedoms, and liberty at every turn.
We represent a “Police State” where “jackbooted badge-wearing thugs” randomly attack innocent people without cause or concern for constitutional rights. We are Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Rodney King all rolled into one lone police officer stopping to help change an old lady’s tire. I stopped caring today as no one wants us around, but instantly demands answers, results, arrests, when a crime takes place.
If a crime isn’t solved within the allocated 60 minutes it takes CSI on television, we are inept, incompetent, or covering something up. If we do get “lucky” it was just that and everyone with a Facebook account can post wonderful comments of how “they” would solve the case and how “we” are not nearly as clever.
I stopped caring today because a video of a cop six states away, from a department that you never heard of, screws up and forgets his oath of honor, thus firing up an internet lynch-mob of cop haters even though 99% of us work twice as hard not to end up in the news and to still be “the good guys.” We are “militarized” because we wear body armor and kevlar helmets when shots are fired or rocks thrown at us and carry scary looking rifles even though everyone knows that they are easier to shoot and are more accurate than a handgun or a shotgun.
I stopped caring today because the culture of today’s instantly connected youth is only there to take and never give back. To never accept responsibility for ones actions, but to blame everyone else instead of themselves. To ask “what is in it for me?” versus “what can I do for you?”
To idolize gangsters, thugs, sexually promiscuous behavior, and criminals over hard work, dedication, and achievement. To argue that getting stoned should be a right, yet getting a job or an education is a hassle. To steal verus earn. To hate versus help. Yes, I stopped caring today. But tomorrow, I will put my uniform back on and I will care again.
 
I know the discussion has moved on, but I felt like sharing this.


The movie Selma is coming out in a couple weeks and I wonder who at the time those events took place saw the photos of what happened back then and thought "They should've just done what the police said." Certainly my grandparents.
 
Yeah, Lt. Daniel Furseth can go fuck himself.

People are upset because the police are over-militarized, with assault rifles and armored vehicles on the streets of American cities. Because there are too many SWAT deployments, with over 1,000 per week despite crime rates remaining roughly the same or even dropping. Because 3/4s of all SWAT raids are to conduct search warrants on people only suspected of a crime. Because some police tend to use maximum force instead of minimal force. Because they shoot people's dogs just because the dog MIGHT be a threat while conducting a raid on an adjacent property. Because of the abuses of civil forfeiture. Because flash-bangs get thrown into baby's cribs, maiming the infant in order to seize an ounce or two of a controlled substance. Because I typed "woman dies in police custody" into google and had 4 different cases on the first fucking page.

People are pissed because the police in many places seem less like the friendly cop serving and protecting your community anymore, and more like armored stormtroopers treating your community like it's downtown Fallujah. People are pissed there have been several high profile cases of questionable uses of force, and in some cases blatant abuses of the power we give police, that haven't even been considered worthy of a trial. People are pissed because unarmed suspects were killed by police without repercussion or even a full inquiry.

People are pissed because the good cops, that we *know* are the vast majority, side with the bad cops and take offense to any implication that any police officer has done wrong ever. The blue wall doesn't protect good cops from slander, it taints good cops with the misdeeds of the bad.

And then you get whiny posts from police lieutenants who show that they don't even fucking understand what the fucking problem is, which is in and of itself, PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM.
 
You are only supposed to raid the homes of suspects.

There are many places in America that are as dangerous as Fallujah.

Whatever :rolleyes: about the "blue wall."

He likely understands the issues far better than you do.
 
But here's the thing, Six.

SWAT teams were formed to deal with armed shootouts where the suspects outgunned regular police (ie the North Hollywood bank robbery shoot-out), confronting heavily armed criminals, performing hostage rescue and counter-terrorism operations, high risk arrests, and entering armored or barricaded buildings. All of these are outside the scope of regular police training. They are all high-risk, immediate action required situations where the risk of death and near-certainty of injury was justified by the circumstances.

Now you have SWAT teams essentially conducting home invasions for miniscule amounts of drugs, where the suspects are often unarmed and do not have a history of violence. There is no way that there are 130+ hostage situations, barricaded building assaults, and counter-terrorism operations EVERY SINGLE DAY in the United States. Yet that is the rate of deployment for SWAT teams. SWAT should be the heavy backup in case of trouble, not the first and only option. And that leads to ridiculous tragedies, like the aforementioned infant whose face was mutilated by a flash-bang, or an internet gambler who was killed by the Fairfax, Virginia SWAT team in 2006. Hell, let's not forget that people playing fucking online video games can call the police and have a raid conducted on you (aka SWATing). The fact that such raids are conducted with so little evidence or forethought - doesn't that bother you?

There are many places in the US as dangerous as an active war zone? Okay, name 3 places where police need armored vehicles to keep order.
 
I think he was pretty clear.

He sees "The Police" losing the trust and respect of The Public, and this saddens and frustrates him, and he feels this is mostly happening for reasons outside of The Police's control, yet he will soldier on.

--Patrick
 
It must be disheartening to know mothers tell their children to be terrified of you when you genuinely want to help them protect those children.

Especially when it's a systemic problem, that even if you did stand up to it as an individual to try to change it from within, you can be demoted, fired, or even get killed.
 
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