It’s kind of sad that framing issues of police brutality around race has kind of forgotten that while cops are definitely disproportionately brutal to people of color, they are violent pieces of shit who will murder on a whim even if you’re white.
All they had to do was tell him to stay still. It would have been so god damned easy.
Cops, Act like a REAL human being CHALLENGE [Level: Impossible] :the-pigs:
Two major factors at play in police brutality, race and class. I'd imagine white cops view other white people who are poor as no longer white and thus valid targets to them. So it pains me when poor whites think themselves above even the richest black man. Nah man, when you're poor, we're in the same boat.
I think theres a factor the left overlooks a lot, which is police identity politics.
They come to identify with their job through media, the trauma of the violence they do brings them closer together, they express their desires as an identity group through guilds and brotherhoods (so called unions), lobby as a group, and provide a single narrative to the media, even when it contradicts the interests of the powerful, like in the Mike Brown murder.
It's a kind of false consciousness that drives a lot of police behavior. If we want to do anything about police brutality (short of abolition, which is preferable) we'd need to stop making shows about them, stop giving them media, bust their unions, and break their departments into 20 different mini departments (one for parking, one for traffic direction, one for shooting dogs, you get the idea).
To stop police terror, we'd need to break their solidarity and their conciousness.
Same situation for me. I've been pulled over a few times for lapse of insurance coverage and hit with big tickets. I'm more than sure if I was wealthy and had connections the cops would look the other way.
Yeah the bourgeois might as well live on a different planet.
Yeah, interacting with rich people is such a weird experience. I don't really know any rich people, but I know a couple of family members of rich people so I've interacted with that crowd before. It's like stepping into a completely different universe.
And if you have a shitty looking truck, they won't even care if you have plates or not if you are white. I've never been pulled over in my truck, and I've been pulled over in cars four or five times despite having driven my pos truck at least four times as far as any car I've owned.
The lack of tickets more than makes up for the extra cost in gas. Trucks suck if you don't need a bed though, they are loud, uncomfortable, and drive like shit. At least they are rwd, unlike most beater cars.
No because last time they did that for a white teen dying BLM totally rallied behind the victim.
"Which just proves that it's not about black lives; they're just anti police!"
I hate that my brain does this.
I originally read "17 year old Hunter Biden" which left me very confused.
This shit got absolutely 0 attention outside of center left outlets a la vice
I've seen this take recently on here too (with different context). How do you have such a moral disconnect? "I wish someone would die because they were, by chance, born in a country I don't like."
I mean its not exactly unusual; it happens constantly the other way around with americans and europeans talking about people in the middle east or god forbid Chyna :frothingfash:
Maybe when you de-chud its kind of easy to just go from "foreign country bad, so people there deserve to be drone struck" to "america bad, so people there deserve to be drone struck" rather than actually recognising that the logic and morals that you were raised with are fucked up.
I also think GZD user has a bad take, but I want to point out "0 Sympathy" and "wishing someone would die because [context]" are not the same sentiment.
conservatives: if the cost of letting police indiscriminately kill black men is that some white boys are also killed, so be it.
oh so he put "SOMETHING" behind his tires? was it a gun? it is a truck in arkansas, they all have guns in them. of course the police were justified in the shooting.
- monsters
If cops are so scared for their lives then maybe they shouldn’t be cops?
