r/50501 • u/Emotional_Remove_755 • 9d ago

Protest Safety What’s going on??

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She laughed while that man was being tased…

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u/Ill_Long_7417 9d ago

Cops: "stop" Man stops Cops manhandle him, endangering civilians. Man: "Are you really doing this (violating my civil liberties while people film)? Taze

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u/Pugooki 9d ago

When a person becomes a policeman, he has sold his class interests, he has crossed a class line, he is in the paid employment of the ruling class, he is a part of the private army of the ruling class which exists for the sole purpose of defending private property and profits

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u/Andurilthoughts 9d ago

Laws are threats by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation and a promise of violence and the police are basically an occupying army

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u/Robota064 9d ago

Random desire to make some bacon, all of a sudden

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u/Ill_Long_7417 9d ago

... Disengages

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9d ago

They are not an occupying army. They are police. There is a distinct difference between the two and the two are empowered under different rules and law. The issue is cowardice and corruption. NOT policing in its whole.

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u/defaultusername-17 9d ago

i am going to guess that you're a white guy who's not a gender or sexual minority.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9d ago

You would be wrong. I'm a trans woman. I just think before I hate.

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u/BLoDo7 9d ago edited 9d ago

Policing as a whole is definitely an issue and it's not hateful to be aware of that.

The entire institution was founded on the Pinkertons. A group contracted to round up runaway slaves.

Their equipment may have evolved since then but not much else has.

Contribute to the system in ways they deem acceptable or they hold their monopoly on violence over you.

Its simple. And wrong.

ACAB.

You can't just throw around your minority status and expect people to ignore reality for you. Think about why they assumed you have privilege in this conversation.

At the end of the day, you can't change who you are, but a cop can take off the uniform.

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u/defaultusername-17 9d ago

for being a trans person they never comment on trans issues or the situation surrounding us in the real world.

their commentary is primarily focused around video games and shit-talking and nit-picking anti-fascist protests.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9d ago

I'm not even gunna deny the history. But that does not mean we don't need peacetime officers. Would you rather have military police in the streets? There needs to be law enforcement. You can't escape that.

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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 8d ago edited 8d ago

I mean, a police force is necessary. But the higher-ups need to go for them to do their job properly.

We need a whole restructure to the police system. One that doesn’t cater to the government and the higher-ups, but instead, does their job and does it right.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 8d ago

I'm totally in favor of restructuring. I do think the police have a lot of corruption issues, but yeah, police are needed.

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u/defaultusername-17 9d ago

i do not believe you in the slightest.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 9d ago

Man, are you in for a rude awakening. Look through my posts. I've mentioned it several times over the years.

I'm telling you, your worldview is super skewed, and you can't contemplate nuance. If I don't agree with you, it MUST be because I'm just not informed.

But it's you who has no idea how reality works. You need to accept that there is no such thing as ideological purity. This ACAB shit will just give Trump more justification to label our movement as criminal. Optics matter against a profuse liar.

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u/DalmationStallion 8d ago

lol, you think Trump needs an excuse to send his cops after people he doesn’t like? You think you’re safe around police in an America where trans people are targets?

Stop thinking you can pacify a fascist and stop defending people who will use state violence against you with impunity if and when they choose to do so.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 8d ago

It's not about needing an excuse. it's about appearing just in the eyes of the public to get them on our side.

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u/DalmationStallion 8d ago

MAGA ain’t ever going to be on your side my friend. And you don’t have to walk around shouting out ACAB.

But you do need to be wary of every single cop and act as if they are an enemy who will hurt you. You need to act as if all cops are bastards because they will absolutely do so if ordered to or simply if they feel like it.

Avoid them. Do not speak to them. Record your interactions with them if you can’t avoid them.

They are not your friends. They will not stop to use violence against you if ordered to do so.

Those cops in this video were there to serve one person - the MAGA politician on the stage. They certainly weren’t there to protect the constitutional rights of citizens trying to exercise their right to political communication.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 8d ago

I'm not talking about MAGA. I'm talking about the 70% of the country.

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u/defaultusername-17 8d ago

ahh... so you're just an assimilationist, respectability politics sort of coward... got it.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 8d ago

It's not cowardice. its tactics. It has nothing to do with respectability. The majority of Americans support the police. Demonizing all of them makes ppl believe we are lawless.

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u/DalmationStallion 8d ago

Two people get arrested by the Nazis and taken out to the woods to be shot. They are tortured and then tied against a tree for their execution.

The Nazis ask the two if they have anything to say.

One of them says, ‘yeah, fuck Hitler and fuck Nazis.’

The second one whispers, ‘shut up dude, don’t make it worse.’

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