How can we as a society tolerate this?
Because the bulk of society in the US, the working class, has no say in the matter.
Bullshit. The working class is your only hope of fixing this and they’re doing fuck all.
Currently, the working class of LA is protesting. There’s a chance it spreads now, too, which would be great, but hopefully this also leads to organizing.
They’re line dancing.
And burning down waymos to block the progress of police and the millitary.
Abject cowardice and laziness?
There was yet another incident of horse-involved police brutality posted to reddit this morning:
When criminals wear badges.
The police badge is the most common gang sign that I regularly see.
Defund the entire department until they bring forward the cops who did this
LAPD is a fucking gang
looking at how even the horses are disobeying being forced to harm people - we can conclude that calling cops animals is not appropriate - ghouls and psychopaths seems more adequate but don’t let me stop you from listing all other fitting names you can think of:
I like the word ghoul though, I don’t wanna ruin it with their taint
tyrants
Who would have thought the LAPD would commit such blatant police brutality? Oh wait, everyone.
If you ever wonder why police budgets are so over-inflated, it’s because an absurd number of their unqualified thugs get sued for shot like this, and they have to pay out huge amounts of compensation. You’d think they’d learn, but they won’t as long as they keep getting basically unlimited budgets and no real consequences.
No, the
legallawsuit payouts don’t come from the cops, their insurance, or their pensions. The taxpayers foot the bill for the lawsuits by losing money from their city’s funds.I made an argument with one of my co-workers that I think that police unions should have to pay all legal bills and payouts for cops getting sued for violating rights. He responded “That’s a quick way to get rid of all police unions,” I had to stop and think if that would be a problem or not.
My point was the police unions are the only ones that can hold their members accountable. If they forced their members to act better instead of being thugs then things might change. If Police unions don’t hold themselves accountable then no one will.
Under Capitalism, the police can only ever be the millitant arm of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. ACAB has value as a phrase because the police only serve Capital. As long as Capital is dominant over humanity, rather than the inverse, police will be used primarily against the working class.
NYPD pays $600,000/ year as pension.
They have to be destroyed by any means necessary.
Not surprising at all, there’s been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don’t just become monsters overnight. They’ve been trained over the years to behave this way.
Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won’t move.
That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.
George Floyd? Iirc one of the officers went to prison for that
No, sadly most of the abuse never makes widespread news
It makes it more available to view, but it hardly does anything to prevent it from being done because the cops face no consequences regardless usually.
The job also attracts monsters and that’s who they want to hire
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The Police DO love a little Fascism.
The United States is no different than Russia. If anything, y’all are worse.
??? No different than Russia? HAVE YOU READ THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.? THERE ISN’T EVEN A SIDE OF COMPARISON RUSSIA LOOKS LIKE THE LAND OF PEACE COMPARED TO THE U.S.
I suggest you read “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire”
Whatever you say kiddo
Try reading about the Russian Civil War some time.
average .world user, how is the Russian civil war worse than anything the U.S. did?
[Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester
If anything, it’s US cops learning from the cossacks, whom tsar always send against people when police was not enough. Running over unarmed people with horses was their favourite tactics.
Well you see they shot some monarchists and that’s equivalent to murdering tens of millions of brown people somehow.
Buddy I’m already on team “Fuck the Tsar”
A bloody Civil War to end monarchism is not equivalent to what the US gets up to on a regular basis for the sake of making capitalists richer.
The capitalists in Russia aren’t exactly sitting on their hands either. I’m on team “Fuck the Capitalists” no matter where they come from
From 1917to 1922 between 7-12 million Russians, mostly civilians, were killed. This includes hundreds of thousands of Jews killed in pogroms (genocidal race riots). The Red Terror involved Bolsheviks conducting executions to wipeout political dissent and any threats to their power. The White Terror involved a collection of conservatives, monarchists, and proto-fascists executing communists and genociding Jews. This doesn’t count people who died in forced labor camps, which by some accounts saw a 10-20% fatality rate per month. There were mass rapes and looting wherever the several armies went. It’s been described to be as close to Hell on Earth as it gets. Between WWI and the Russian Civil War, the total population fell from around 170 million to 134 million.
This is not comparable to the U.S. still
If that’s what you call a “Land of Peace”, I don’t think your opinion is worth much.
In comparison to the U.S.
Citation?
Using whole Wikipedia pages as citations is terminally lib brained. At least cite the specific wikipedia sources jfc.
Citing “pogrom” wikipedia like you’re trying to prove the concept of it exists is just the dingleberry on top of this shit cake.
Is your point that the people fighting against Tsarism shouldn’t have done so? That they should’ve continued to suffer without complaint?
Of course the monarchists and reactionaries are going to accuse their opponents of their own crimes, nothing surprising there.
My point is that saying Russia is a “Land of Peace” compared to the US is not historically accurate in the least.
I don’t think that’s being disputed. Both the USA and Russia had incredibly violent labor histories in the late 1800s and 1900s. The main difference is that in Russia, the workers+peasants organized and won, and in the US, they lost.
Either way this both-sidesing of violence makes no sense. You might as well demonize every just cause in history, or every person that defends themselves from an aggressor with that outlook.
Oh fuck right off with that bullshit.
That’s true, the USA is even more disruptive currently.
In the mind of the USAian liberal, this is also because of Russia. Things used to be great, but now they’re bad because the foreigners are controlling the president.
In the minds of anyone with a passing understanding of Russian foreign policy can absolutely see they have their hooks in Trump and you would have to have a significant deficit in logical thinking skills to believe otherwise. That being said that only accounts for some of the war, violence, and agitation the USA is involved in.
yup, weve been saying this shit. and that isnt considering the fact they have been doing it to other countries as well for decades.
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The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I’ve ever seen.
What about this?
And of course some woman is screeming “Oh my god” repeatedly. Really helping the situation here madam.
Dang I forgot about that one.
On top of my head, I remember there’s a lot more like them, but can’t find them right now.
Disgusting. ACAB.
From AXN live stream earlier today
See the signpost in the middleHell yea. That shot is almost poetic. Hopefully the protestors can stay as safe as they can in the face of the fascist crackdown.
Those Nazis are attempting murder.
Watched this live all day at work. So much of this shit went on. The whole thing with CHP trapped under the overpasses was set up to be a massacre, but the protestors didn’t kill them.
No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.
No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.
Or they know the violent threat they’re using as justification is total fiction.
It seems to me like they are attempting to get protestors to escalate. After a martyr, the mental gymnastics and justifications will spiral with a blinding speed.
Not even escalate, just retaliate at the same level. The first part of the video isn’t what will get played on or matter to the viewers of fox news.
Like during Black Lives Matter rallies where pallets of bricks were randomly in the middle of roads.
They’re hoping for bloodshed on the side of police or military, it’s their ticket to ride. They can do whatever they want once they establish the civilian populace as a threat to military personnel. These guys are little more than sacrificial pawns as far as the administration is concerned, they’re hoping that at least one of them meets a violent enough end so they can justify martial law and start unloading on every crowd of protesters.
Notice the first horse refused on the left.
Good horse
The only good cops are horses and dog.
EDIT: Guys, I know police dogs attack people. They are trained to do so from birth. I don’t blame the dogs.
The dogs are brain washed to attack.
A regular person training this viciousness into a dog would be called out, if not arrested (depending on the animal cruelty laws).
Idk. Police dogs are brutal. They’re regularly sicced onto black and Latino people to maul em and if they try to defend themselves they’re charged with assaulting an officer.
Dogs should at most be used to smell for bombs. The fact that they trust their owners so much that they’d be violent against whomever is precisely why the cops shouldn’t be allowed to have them, it’s animal abuse but even more importantly, it’s a huge vector for police brutality.
