What did the statues of the confederacy do to the people that smashed them? Nothing, statues can't do anything. It's what they symbolize, right. So this head case gets offended by what this statue symbolizes. What's that you ask? Who the fuck knows and therein lies the problem. One persons just cause is anothers goofy butt hurt. Point is when we accept vandalism as appropriate expression of percieved feelings of injustice then we get it across the board.
Breonna Taylor sculpture smashed by vandals in California
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Any idea what kneeling during the Anthem does to people that want to stand?
I think this is one major problem we are finding out there... many, not all but more than a little, cops are using their own biases and prejudices to determine when a situation is life threatening and when it simply requires stern language. We have seen far too many videos of cops making their own decisions leading to extreme abuse or death.
This is the area where I feel not only training is seriously lacking but so is oversight. If you are going to leave it up to an err prone, possibly biased human being to make the decision on what is life threatening and when they can use force and wehave too many people being executed for minor offenses, then the system needs to be reviewed closer.
Storming a crack house is not the same as confronting someone you pulled over at a traffic stop who has not done anything life threatening. And there is where training and oversight is sorely lacking.
At some point the police need to realize the power they have been given and the ease of abuse and set up a better system to handle the stress, pressure and situational decision making since cops have a license to kill that is very loosely defined.
Someone grabbing your gun and screaming "I will kill you" or coming at you with a knife..seems like on TV a simple case... someone walking away from you or simply walking on the side of a street is not the same but cops sometimes respond way incorrectly and were rarely punished before VIDEO.
Also cops do not have absolute rights of control and there are hundreds of years of court cases trying to clarify and limit what police think they can do. To this day cops are ignorant of it because they train the lawyers but give cops like a Con Crim Pro for Dummies quick training which is useless.
Captain you clearly are not woke and are not feeling their pain.
The lefty mob tore down a big, beautiful statue of an elk in a Portland square, given to the city by some rich guy who - horror upon horrors- loved the City of Portland and wanted to give them a gift.
DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THE PAIN IT CAUSED SOME PEOPLE TO HAVE TO SEE AN ELK?? How do you think it made them feel inside? Their kids having to grow up seeing that elk everyday?
C'MON MAN!!!!!
Yeah, it offends them and as a society we have accepted all butt hurt is just cause for outrage. Again, it's a two way street.
That was easy. Now we just have to find a solution.
She was not living with a drug dealer.The guy she was living with had no criminal record and no drugs were found in her home.
Yes, but when you have large groups shouting “death to cops”, I’m leaving out the expletives and degrading names and couple that with the rash of recent unprovoked assassination attempts on cops...... maybe you’d be on edge when you approach someone?
Cops are people, not robots.
Again, I’ll agree, there are bad cops. But placing all cops into that category is wrong and adds to the problem.
It's really silly to equate a statue of a victim, to a statue of a Confederate military leader.
It's really silly for a nation to have statues of a past enemy, that stood for the enslavement of fellow humans.
It's really silly that this needs to be debated.
I believe some people are going straight to hell when they die.
It's really silly for a nation to have statues of a past enemy, that stood for the enslavement of fellow humans.
It's really silly that this needs to be debated.
I believe some people are going straight to hell when they die.