You get arrested for weed. They get a vacation mistaking an acorn for gunshots and shooting at an unarmed civilian

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    The right take here is:

    1. Cops are the armed enforcers of capitalism and thus have all manner of special protections and privileges
    2. Cops do some public service work (bourgeois democracy is not totally unresponsive to the popular demand for that)
    3. Cops have many of the same workplace issues as anyone else punching a timecard, even if how these issues present and get resolved is shaped heavily by (1)