This shouldn't be flagged IMNSHO.
Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
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Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#22Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
I am hardly interested in your internal affairs, not to mention your self-centered attitude.
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#23Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
I am hardly interested in your internal affairs, not to mention your self-centered attitude.
Do you live in the West? If so, the US is the one of two super powers which is most closely aligned with western, and most likely your, values. No other western country has the ability to project the soft and hard power required to protect these values, and I for one am indeed very concerned about their internal affairs.
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am hardly interested in your internal affairs, not to mention your self-centered attitude.
Do you live in the West? If so, the US is the one of two super powers which is most closely aligned with western, and most likely your, values. No other western country has the ability to project the soft and hard power required to protect these values, and I for one am indeed very concerned about their internal affairs.
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Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#25Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
> I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
"Bootlicker"
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#26Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
I'm not one of the flaggers, but it's questionable that this falls under the umbrella (per the site guidelines) of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" or "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
I agree that this is an important article in general, but it's reasonable to hold the opinion that it doesn't belong on HN, and flagging is the way to signal that.
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#27Smearing the victim is SOP for cops. https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
> Writers are told to avoid usage of the passive voice.” A rationalist whose background comes exclusively from science may fail to see the flaw in the previous sentence; but anyone who’s done a little writing should see it right away. I wrote the sentence in the passive voice, without telling you who tells authors to avoid passive voice. Passive voice removes the actor, leaving only the acted-upon. “Unreliable elements were subjected to an alternative justice process”—subjected by whom? What does an “alternative justice process” do? With enough static noun phrases, you can keep anything unpleasant from actually happening.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lz64L3yJEtYGkzMzu/rationalit...
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#28Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
I'm not one of the flaggers, but it's questionable that this falls under the umbrella (per the site guidelines) of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" or "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I agree that this is an important article in general, but it's reasonable to hold the opinion that it doesn't belong on HN, and flagging is the way to signal that.
I'm a good hacker and I find this interesting. Also, police (mis)behavior is a common thread on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#29Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship. I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
I am hardly interested in your internal affairs, not to mention your self-centered attitude.
Nationalistic flamebait and personal attacks (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24564806) will get you banned here. Please stop posting like this. The container here is a fragile ecosystem. I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park or a mountain lake, or drop lit matches in a dry forest, so can you please not do the equivalent on HN?
Re: Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
In the famous words of Chris Rock >Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like … pilots. Ya know, American Airlines can’t be like, 'Most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains. Please bear with us.'" It’s not just the “Few Bad Apples” it’s the entire system where the “Blue Wall” protects them and the justice system doesn’t prosecute. Police rarely blow the whistle on b…
I think of this Chris Rock line whenever I think of "bad apples"