Okay damn. Stay in your home, be depressed, eat the shit that's given to you like an obedient dog. That's their argument?
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Daniel Shaver also got shot fully complying with the contradictory commands he was being given, so the other common saying about "just comply and you'll be fine" is also total fucking bullshit.
This one is the most fucked up to me.
The others are terrible, don’t get me wrong. But this one takes the cake.
Dude is literally on the ground crying and trying to do what he is told, gets told two different things, complies with what was essentially the arbitrarily incorrect choice (which I admit incorrectly implies there was a correct choice) and gets gunned down by a cop who was so ready to kill someone he tagged his service weapon like it was call of duty.
All because someone saw a pellet gun through the hotel window. A legal toy which isn’t even considered a gun, but if it were it would have been constitutionally protected.
I didn’t follow the case but I can only assume the cop got paid vacation, then some desk duty, but by no means any kind of real consequences.
That's not the one where the guy was inching towards the cop in the hotel hall is it? Were the cop had your f***** tattooed on the side of his rifle? And he ended up just lighting this crying scared I'll be a stupid kid or a young man up because he kept trying to straighten his pants where the cop knew d*** well he wasn't reaching for anything and baggy ass fubu gym shorts
Aside from being obviously wrong, the attitude. "Fun fact"? About a topic like police violence?
Pos.
Some incellular, r wing right wing logic on the OP. The Brianna Taylor one was very disgusting to me as she basically did with any 1 of us would do... open a curtain to see what the F is going on. Some chicken s*** with a rifle or a handgun who she's completely smothering as Alarmed to see armed idiots stop me through her rose bushes only then to be gunned down. also because she's a darkey. Eeeee gad! Pop pop pop
Fun fact: a lot of nazi supporters ended up being victims of the Nazis.
Hey, even Adolf was killed by a nazi. Even the people at the top aren't safe.
That's the only thing a Nazi ever did that I agree with.
He wasn't the only Nazi who attempted to kill Hitler -- he was just the only one who was successful at it.
Hitler, after becoming completely enraged by his Nazi party members inability to kill him, took it upon himself to show them how to get it done, that's the type of leadership Trump needs to show.
That wasn't fun at all!
Sorry, I meant Ironic fact.
boy howdy I tell ya what, that is some quality rage bait: the ai art, the annoying expression, the “fun fact” prefix, the idea that you have to stay home to not get shot. I felt my blood pressure rise just at first glance, and y’know what? I wish them dead; I wish whoever posted that horrible meme would die.
But that’s silly of me to feel after reading such a brief post; I shouldn’t be able to shift from 0 to third gear like that, it’s not good for my health. That just goes to show how rage inducing that god dang post is.
Now I’m gonna go take a breather. A good 10 minute walk should do.
You just described why I quit Reddit lol. Found myself feeling tense even with I put the phone down
If that's only third gear I'm scared of what fourth of fifth gear you would do
It’s mostly used to be mean and snarky but sometimes, in fact, touching grass is actually food for the spirit. I’ve gone through the same mood swing with content like this, hope your walk helped! ☀️🚶🌳
Besides everything else I fucking hate the choice of traditionally attractively drawn lady with fishmouth. Guess I got ragebaited.
Screams AI
Yes well that too
Oh, cool. Let's adopt a society built on the stable foundations of this person's agoraphobia.
"Someone got shot by the police!"
"Well, it's not safe to go outside. They should've just stayed home; it's really not that hard, guys."
whooooooooosh!
You'd get put under house arrest and not notice the difference.
All while shouting about "freedom".
And with, what I assume is, a genAI comic panel.
What was the prompt, I wonder? "Blonde woman gives apology for murder by police."
"Blonde woman gives invisible blowjob"
Fun fact: 100% of women get sexually assaulted regardless of how they dress or if they go out or not.
marlin aint percolating
Since when did obstructing the po-po become a capital offence anyway?
Justine Damond. Who was shot outside her home while wearing a nighty and no shoes, after she called the police to report an assault she thought she witnessed.
Though because she was a conventionally attractive, a citizen of a foreign country with friendly relations, white, and killed by a Somali-American banned "Mohamed", her killer was tried and found guilty. Sentenced to 12.5 years. Though even that was reduced on appeal to 4.75 years, and he was let out after 3 years.
Just looked it up. Awful like usual... I also wonder what she heard, because it sounds like nothing was said about the other crime taking place at the same location. Guess that crime went unpunished or she was wrong about what she heard which makes this feel even worse.
It's always racism, ennit?
Cops kill people because of racism and even if they're killing white people, the system of cops-killing is firmly in place to support racism.
And when a black cop kills a white woman of course THEY'RE convicted, because the entire system is racist.
Something similar happens in cycling/pedestrian communities. Like, if a driver gets convicted of manslaughter and actually serves jail time, everyone's excited because they think it means it's a step forward for pedestrian rights. But the pattern is jail time is served ONLY when the victims are white and the drivers are not. It's never about pedestrian rights, it's just always about racism. Again.