Anonymous wrote:All she had to do was follow directions.

Anonymous wrote:Why was he indicted for 1st degree murder? It wasn’t premeditated. I’d understand 2nd degree. He did seem like a hothead and used nothing he learned at the academy. He didn’t attempt to de-escalate; he didn’t attempt to use less than lethal; there was a counter in between them (there was no imminent danger); and as a nice touch, he had a skull tattoo on his arm.

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Anonymous wrote:The policeman who shot her is in jail without bail. Is there a purpose to your post?

I’d like to know how these clowns get hired as cops in the first place.

You can apply, they are hiring. I am sure you will be a better candidate.

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On Monday, police will release the footage showing Sonya Massey being shot in the face by police after calling 911 for help.

In a political environment that is so polarized, how will our nation's politicians address this murder?

I think it is for our judicial system to address this murder. Not for politicians.

There should be legislation in place that problematic cops fired from one department, cannot be fired into another.

This would have prevented this murder.

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We need a healthy and safe police force that protects all of us. I’m White. I’ve never had to worry about calling the police and I say on every one of these threads that that should be a basic tenet of modern society, not a privilege. It’s pretty clear that some laws need to be passed around policing and that oversight needs to be moved from within the force to outside of it.

For example: the Washington Post ran an article a month or so ago about all the police officers who sexually abuse children who are entrusted to their care. It was disgusting. Read it and literally weep, so many children broken by officers in whom trust, whether implicit in the basic relationship between officer and citizens or explicit as in sometimes the police were supposed to be acting as mentors, had been placed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/police-officers-child-sexual-abuse-in-america/?itid=mr_1

Eh. I mean, I understand implicit bias—but I don’t think that’s as big of a thing as the media narrative makes it out to be. Like, being afraid of calling the police specifically because you’re black.

I’m white and I am somewhat wary of calling the police—because you never know what kind of officer you’re going to get. And there’s quite a bug culture of “shoot first ask questions later”. Pretty sure when they do police training they drill that into you by showing recruits the dashcam video of a deputy pulling someone over without drawing his gun and calmly engaging him, only to be shot and killed.

Being white doesn’t protect you; ask Christian Glass, Hunter Brittain, Justine Damond, etc.

I think there just needs to be a bigger change in police culture.

I agree that there needs to be a change in police culture, but I still think there is a far bigger problem for Black people than for White, and my Black neighbors definitely have had different experiences with the police than I have and a far different relationship to the police than I do.

But yes, the police force needs to be fixed. I don’t know if you nosed through the link about police officers sexual abusing/assaulting children in their care, but it’s not a limited problem and just like Catholic priests before them, many of them simply moved to make the problem “go away” in one location. There needs to be oversight. There needs to be way more training.

They get plenty of training. The problem is WHAT they're being trained to do, and who they're being trained to see an their enemy. We need to rethink what policing should be, and reframe it as community support. Make protect and serve actually mean something again, and stop training officers to treat the populations they are entrusted to protect as their enemy.

Anonymous wrote:Cop: “get away.”
Lady: “get away from what?”
Cop: “get away from the hot steaming water.”
Lady: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”
Cop: “huh?”
Lady: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”
Cop: “you better not, I will shoot you in your mother f’n face.”
Lady: “ok, I’m sorry.”

I am sorry but you can’t not threaten to throw boiling water on someone as boiling water is in your hand. Yes, it was in her hand has she said it. She let go and hid as she said sorry. The cop gave multiple warnings. She continued on and took it as a joke. Now both of their lies are gone.

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Anonymous wrote:This shows me that we need better screening of people that we allow to have law enforcement roles, and that we need better training for law enforcement.

It's astounding that after all that's happened, all of the LEO abuses, departments still haven't learned a damn thing.

You ever consider that the system is doing exactly as it was designed to do? Our police system was borne out of a desire to antagonize, terrorize, and control the Black population. That it continues to brutalized that population specifically should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention.

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On Monday, police will release the footage showing Sonya Massey being shot in the face by police after calling 911 for help.

In a political environment that is so polarized, how will our nation's politicians address this murder?

I think it is for our judicial system to address this murder. Not for politicians.

There should be legislation in place that problematic cops fired from one department, cannot be fired into another.

This would have prevented this murder.

+1

We need a healthy and safe police force that protects all of us. I’m White. I’ve never had to worry about calling the police and I say on every one of these threads that that should be a basic tenet of modern society, not a privilege. It’s pretty clear that some laws need to be passed around policing and that oversight needs to be moved from within the force to outside of it.

For example: the Washington Post ran an article a month or so ago about all the police officers who sexually abuse children who are entrusted to their care. It was disgusting. Read it and literally weep, so many children broken by officers in whom trust, whether implicit in the basic relationship between officer and citizens or explicit as in sometimes the police were supposed to be acting as mentors, had been placed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/police-officers-child-sexual-abuse-in-america/?itid=mr_1

Eh. I mean, I understand implicit bias—but I don’t think that’s as big of a thing as the media narrative makes it out to be. Like, being afraid of calling the police specifically because you’re black.

I’m white and I am somewhat wary of calling the police—because you never know what kind of officer you’re going to get. And there’s quite a bug culture of “shoot first ask questions later”. Pretty sure when they do police training they drill that into you by showing recruits the dashcam video of a deputy pulling someone over without drawing his gun and calmly engaging him, only to be shot and killed.

Being white doesn’t protect you; ask Christian Glass, Hunter Brittain, Justine Damond, etc.

I think there just needs to be a bigger change in police culture.

I agree that there needs to be a change in police culture, but I still think there is a far bigger problem for Black people than for White, and my Black neighbors definitely have had different experiences with the police than I have and a far different relationship to the police than I do.

But yes, the police force needs to be fixed. I don’t know if you nosed through the link about police officers sexual abusing/assaulting children in their care, but it’s not a limited problem and just like Catholic priests before them, many of them simply moved to make the problem “go away” in one location. There needs to be oversight. There needs to be way more training.

They get plenty of training. The problem is WHAT they're being trained to do, and who they're being trained to see an their enemy. We need to rethink what policing should be, and reframe it as community support. Make protect and serve actually mean something again, and stop training officers to treat the populations they are entrusted to protect as their enemy.

A lot of these people get trained by the IDF: https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/

That's a foreign military renowned for its human rights abuses.

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Anonymous wrote:The policeman who shot her is in jail without bail. Is there a purpose to your post?

I’d like to know how these clowns get hired as cops in the first place.