like I don't wanna be mr cracker callin cops but say you hear your neighbor bang on his front door so loud it shakes your apartment 3 rooms away, you hear him inside yelling with a woman, hard to tell what they say, but you clearly hear "get out of my face" from her, and either "give me my keys" or "give me my kids" (but wtf???) from her, shouting, and then pounding like someone is being flung around the room

is this cop time? do cops make things worse? is this "just talk to your neighbors" time even though the clear and present threat of violence is there?? I literally do not know what to do. I panicked, I called the cops, I think they literally just talked to the guy and then left.. idk what the alternative would be, I can't just get the woman alone to ask if she's okay when the dude's almost always there, guy is like 7 foot fuck,

e: I don't know how to reconcile "all cops suck they make everything worse" with not wanting to be a fucking bystander when someone is potentially (from all the sensory information I can gather) getting beaten by their partner

  • cozy [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    this is really the crux of the issue isn't it? it's the same argument that globe emojis use to defend neocon actions. "it's not ideal but america couldn't just stand by and do nothing!" no matter how much context you provide for how hideously harmful the action was, it all circles back to their personal need to do something to absolve themselves of the guilt of inaction.

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      weird example because the "guilt of inaction" is purely ideological for the neocons, as opposed to actual guilt over community violence