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Captainant

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  1. Posting purely for news content of the info, tweets in spoiler.

    TL:DR - president calling for governors to "dominate" and that "You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again".

    This is going to continue to escalate.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Not surprised to see this being used to delegitimize unions in general.

    There's nothing wrong with having a police union, the problem is the contracts.

    Obligatory repost of this actually well researched thread demonstrating a direct correlation of factors in police union contracts and body count

     

     

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  3. 25 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    LOL should they should make a drug bust or respond to domestic violence or an active shooter situation with words? [/not TeamCop]

    Well they've been doing such a good job with their no knock raids lately...

  4. 55 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I don’t see how continued reopening won’t lead to more cases which a corresponding increase in hospitalization unless the summer heat/humidity theories are correct. It’s not like reopening can be as safe as everyone staying home, and continued reopening will lead to complacency.

     

    This is what I'm thinking as well - if the new case trend is steady or even slightly negative then that is pretty good evidence of the virus acting seasonally and we can reasonably hope for a less COVID summer. 

    But on the flip side we'll have a high degree of group exposure and people are NOT gonna go back to social distancing when they're so close to football season and fall sports. So unless there's a super effective and fully scaled up vaccine ready by fall... It's gonna be a doozie

  5. 13 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I hate seeing this but be prepared for consequences if you break curfew, ignore police orders and then resist arrest. Curfews aren’t just for people who are “causing problems.” I don’t know of one city that isn’t welcoming peaceful protests during the day and I assume any city without a curfew are not stopping night peaceful protests.

    Do you think that getting beaten with batons is an appropriate consequence for not complying? 

  6. 10 minutes ago, Bruno Sardine said:

    And he could show you 100 videos of nonviolent arrests of minorities made by cops. That was his point. Speaking of dissembling.

    Yeah for cops that's what we expect of them. If the bar so low that they should be celebrated every time they don't choke a motherfucker out?

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    so a shot was taken or NOT taken at the mods in a public post?

    Then after 150 some odd posts, the consensus is far from the original contention.

    Weird.

    The first post for this thread was originally in the CR riot thread. Blacklab moved it here to put bamachick on blast, and he set the thread title. Bit of a bitchass move imo, but he's been dealing with more shit than usual, so I get it

  8. NFL talk not going away. Funny how johhny dogwhistle shows up to badmouth the uppity football player but is nowhere to be seen regarding the police murderers.

    Shout out to @Gap03 for putting some datapoints on together on the local cops in Minneapolis

    Fun fact that hadn't dawned on me until now - each of George Floyd (2020), Philando Castile (2016) and Justine Damond (2017) were killed by MPD officers in area about 10 miles in diameter:

     Map of Recent MPD Killings

    Just spitballing here, but they may have a bit of a culture problem at the MPD.

  9. If they can arrest those journalists for doing nothing and complying, and then say "oopsie poopsie sowwie!" Then why haven't they arrested that murdering cop?

    You don't need a have guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to make a fucking arrest. All you need is probable cause and reasonable suspicion that a crime occurred. After that, you can ammend/add/remove charges or drop it all together. 

    The DA won't even take the first step to book him. Because he wants an airtight case before even an arrest. Different set of rules once you get a shiny star on your chest

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  10. Just now, lemonlime said:

    JFC.  If he reached into his pocket to grab his credentials he'd probably be dead now.

    The kicker is that the fox news team a block over with a white reporter didn't get hassled at all. Gotta love all that "CNN is fake news" rhetoric coming home to roost

  11. Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I can’t believe those fucking morons arrested a CNN reporter while he was reporting.  Perhaps one of the most on the nose self-owns I’ve seen.

    The footage from that is nuts. A bunch of faceless cops all holding wooden bats circling the reporting crew who are literally live on air and showing their credentials and complying with the cops were all arrested. 

    And then the city police tweeted out an "lol our bad" and lied about the sequence of events saying the reporters never gave credentials and got "swept up accidentally". Cops gonna cop, they like wearing the boots so they can step on your neck easier

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