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

GasBandit

Staff member
The taser is bright yellow, has a completely different grip from a Glock, and is holstered on the left instead of the right.

Some accident.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Wouldn't the safety be on the gun? And require a concious effort to disengage it?
The taser has a safety. If she'd trained with her equipment, she should have noticed that the safety wasn't there before she attempted to fire.

Everything about this says to me that she's trigger happy and is far more familiar with her gun than her taser.
 
I'm smelling that someone covered something up on the body camera...

(She friggin' well KNEW she was pulling her gun, not her TASER.)
 
It's a big enough deal that discussion on the topic is even showing up in places you previously would not expect it to.

From the creator commentary attached to today's EGS:

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--Patrick
 
I am so worn out by all the hypocrisy.

Kid gets shot and killed before he can even react because he was playing in a park with a toy gun? "The kid should have complied. It's not the officers fault he looked threatening. The officer feared for his life. #BlueLivesMatter"

Woman storms the US Capital with a mob, chanting hang Mike Pence, before getting shot trying to leap through a barricaded window. "The officer needs to be arrested for murder. #SayHerName"
 
Jonathan Mattingly, one of the cops that shot Breonna Taylor, the same cop that is suing her boyfriend over "emotional distress" is writing a book about that night. It's going to belong in the Fiction dept isn't it.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
I just saw a video on Twitter of a cop talking about how you'd have to be incompetent to mistake your taser for a gun, and he said "no one hates bad cops more than good cops", something I've heard before, but this time it dawned on me. When cops talk about "bad cops", they mean someone who they consider incompetent at their job. Not morally bad, but someone who makes their job harder. Sometimes that's the same thing, but more often than not the "bad cops" that "good cops" hate are not the same as the "bad cops" that civilians are rightfully terrified of.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I just saw a video on Twitter of a cop talking about how you'd have to be incompetent to mistake your taser for a gun, and he said "no one hates bad cops more than good cops", something I've heard before, but this time it dawned on me. When cops talk about "bad cops", they mean someone who they consider incompetent at their job. Not morally bad, but someone who makes their job harder. Sometimes that's the same thing, but more often than not the "bad cops" that "good cops" hate are not the same as the "bad cops" that civilians are rightfully terrified of.
There are no good cops. Only bad cops and silent cops. If a good cop speaks out about a bad cop, they get fired and aren't a cop anymore.
 
A simple matter of skintone is the only difference in my being able to make that cross-country drive I dreamed of, and making it out of my driveway alive.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
There are no good cops. Only bad cops and silent cops. If a good cop speaks out about a bad cop, they get fired and aren't a cop anymore.
I agree, but there are cops who consider themselves "good cops", and I think it's important to note the distinction in what is meant. "Good cops" generally mean that they're good at being police officers. They frame good/bad in terms of their perception of what police work is, and that is a major part of copaganda. In their use of the words "good cops" speak out against "bad cops" sometimes, because police officers call out officers who are bad at being the type of police that police want to be.

As a parallel, if a conman said "There's nothing a good scam artist hates more than a bad scam artist", you and I both know that someone ceases to be good the moment they start scamming innocent people out of their money. However, I'm sure there are criminals who think they're very "good" criminals, and are very upset when "bad" criminals bring attention to their crime and make it harder to get away whatever scam they're running. And if there were some sort of organized movement trying to make people think that criminals are useful to society, and that "good scam artists" exist and should be differentiated from "bad scam artists", they might just use such tricks of language to try to confuse people.
 
Different article, there's some details that, if true, make the whole thing worse:

“Walmart employees stopped her and escorted her back inside, where they took the items back. Ms. Garner attempted to hand them her credit card to pay but they refused. Ms. Garner, unable to communicate with them or fully grasp what was going on, then walked out of the store and began walking the short distance back to her home.” - Excerpt from complaint

Walmart reportedly called police after Garner left. The complaint claims that police were informed that Garner was elderly, small and petite (she reportedly weighs 80 pounds and is 5 feet tall), and that the items had already been returned.
 
So.

If the jury declares Chauvin not guilty, there will certainly be rioting in the streets.

If the jury finds Chauvin guilty, there will probably still be rioting in the streets.

The only difference is that there'll be more shootings and less police intervention in the second scenario.
 

Dave

Staff member
Licenses to ride bikes? Okay. Stupid as fuck. Are there any videos of cops harassing suburban white kids riding their bikes everywhere? Don't bother answering that, I already know.
 
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