George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

Post by markvdb » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:36 AM UTC

danShumway wrote: post #84

aganame wrote: post #49

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You are probably also taking it out of context. You have no idea what has happened in that neighborhood in the last year or decade. You have no idea what those perps and officers have experienced. Right?

> in the last year or decade > what those perps and officers have experienced Both totally irrelevant to whether or not it's appropriate to punch a handcuffed prisoner in the face while they're not resisting. If a cop is suffering from PTSD or stress to the point where they can't keep themselves from assaulting a handcuffed prisoner, then I am genuinely very sorry for them, but they're still in the wrong job and they…

Post by danShumway » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:38 AM UTC

markvdb wrote: post #231

danShumway wrote: post #84

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> in the last year or decade > what those perps and officers have experienced Both totally irrelevant to whether or not it's appropriate to punch a handcuffed prisoner in the face while they're not resisting. If a cop is suffering from PTSD or stress to the point where they can't keep themselves from assaulting a handcuffed prisoner, then I am genuinely very sorry for them, but they're still in the wrong job and they…

If the police officer is suffering from PTSD, a mental illness, and it originated at work, the police department as their employer should look into other options first before firing the unfit officer. Treatment combined with appropriate work should be the first option. Treatment combined with sick leave should obviously be the second.

Post by watwut » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

MathCodeLove wrote: post #228

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #191

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Neither you or the parent poster explained what "Ba Sing Se" is. I quickly discovered that it is a reference to a city in "The last Airbender" [0]. I don't want to watch three seasons of it just to understand the reference. A very obscure reference might deserve an explanation to make the remaining 99.9% of the readers able to understand what you mean. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender#Ba_…

Not really very obscure. It's an incredibly popular show and I would be willing to bed that at minimum 50% of coworkers would understand the reference. I don't think it's very difficult to use context to understand what's being said by the commenter.

Post by rutthenut » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:41 AM UTC

DeonPenny wrote: post #218

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To be fair you are comparing an adversarial job with a cooperative one. A crane operator won't feel unsafe, or confronted by someone he calls hostile. This is no excuse whatsoever for the multitude of outraging problems in the system, but the comparison isn't straightforward.

I agree, but the more I hear about the defund the police narrative the more an agree. Some of these interaction have 0 reason to be adversarial. For example the Rayshard brooks shooting. Why was a gun needed to wake a man sleeping in a car. Why are guns needed to hand out speeding tickets. I get that guns are needed if a bank is being robbed. But this is glorified customer service work. Imagine your car breaks down a…

Post by _yt0l » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:43 AM UTC

DeonPenny wrote: post #65

The fact that is even possible is insane. Imagine there being over 700 videos of pilots messing up in one month, 700 crane operator mishaps in a month, 700+ food poising by a chain in a month. The also imagine you believe there's no problem. This is Ba Sing Se levels of delusion for some people.