Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
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#2Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
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#3Bodycam of the incident is available [1].
Linking as a footnote because it's NSFW and hard to watch. They basically crush the life out this guy then joke as he lays naked and dead in the street.
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#4LMPD tried to do this exact thing with Breonna Taylor by offering her ex-boyfriend a plea deal to implicate her in drug activity[0]
0: https://www.wdrb.com/news/wdrb-video/drug-suspect-offered-ju...
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#5Police in America are just doing their job, hired gun for the rich. They are a private security force for the wealthy. Fuck the police. Fuck the rich.
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#6Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
Excuse my ignorance here.
How many police -> suspect interactions are there every day in all 50 US states? What percentage of them are this level of bad/corrupt yearly? Like, 0.2%? I'm not saying it's ok but... I'm pretty sure every business/sector has extremely gross behavior that if we knew about it, we'd be turned off morally. I don't get why hating cops in America is so "trendy" when statistically speaking, there's no way the majority of cops (or anywhere close to it) deserve the hate/flak they get.
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#7The article doesn’t mention it, what consequences do the officers/department or those involved face for creating a fake report and fraudulently denying the FOIA request?
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#8Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
One would be tempted to extrapolate from the article title that it's disproportionately used against blacks. Since otherwise it wouldn't specifically point out the victim was black, just as stories of police shootings rarely point out in the title if the victim was white.
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#9Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
Excuse my ignorance here. How many police -> suspect interactions are there every day in all 50 US states? What percentage of them are this level of bad/corrupt yearly? Like, 0.2%? I'm not saying it's ok but... I'm pretty sure every business/sector has extremely gross behavior that if we knew about it, we'd be turned off morally. I don't get why hating cops in America is so "trendy" when statistically speaking, there…
Cool whataboutism.
Anyway, the majority of cops are complicit and circle the wagons whenever a bad cop gets outed. When they start defending the public instead of their friends then you can use the phrase "good cop", otherwise all cops are bad cops.
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#10Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
Excuse my ignorance here. How many police -> suspect interactions are there every day in all 50 US states? What percentage of them are this level of bad/corrupt yearly? Like, 0.2%? I'm not saying it's ok but... I'm pretty sure every business/sector has extremely gross behavior that if we knew about it, we'd be turned off morally. I don't get why hating cops in America is so "trendy" when statistically speaking, there…
I agree, it's a small percentage. But if we are looking at the percentage of cops willing to lie to protect a bad cop or willing to look the other way when a bad cop does something bad, I'm afraid the percentage is way higher than 0.2%.