This is literally the type of thing that happens in Fahrenheit 451. It was supposed to be a fantasy nightmare story to make a point, not a literal description of evil events to come.
Reminds me of how in the early 90s, I was reading The Necronomicon, a well known work of fiction by the fairly famous author H. P. Lovecraft, in study hall in a New England school and someone apparently reported this to the administration. My angry Vice-Principal (who was later transferred to an elementary school after assaulting a couple students) confiscated the book and screamed at me about it for ~20 minutes. Things have gotten worse since then with school systems involving police, though.
Nothing more American than "this adult who we put in charge of minors assaulted a teenager, what should we do with them? Oh I know, let's put them in charge of even younger children!"
I hate our country.
Yep, after assaulting middle school children, his punishment was to be principal of an elementary for twenty years and then be rewarded with “educator of the year” when he retired.
Not his first incident, either. My friend’s older brother got in trouble for supposedly swinging at him (in 8th grade, and this guy was a former NFL player). Who knows why. He repeatedly made me sit in the office for hours because he claimed he wanted to rule me out for vandalism, so rather than attending classes, I sat in the office waiting area doing nothing for days.
I gotta admit, from the headline I assumed he was deep undercover as an 8th grader.
So the superintendent and the board was notified of this happening and they basically escorted the cop into the classroom instead of standing up for their students' rights. Recall them all. I'd be so pissed if my child's school allowed this. Cops have no right being in this situation. They threw the entire 1st amendment out the window.
So a rando out of uniform gets agitated, enters a place meant for children, aggressively searches through things which panics children, and we're expected to go "yeah, these people who would immediately execute someone like this surely deserve to be left alone to do the very thing they would shoot someone over"
I watched an adult get tackled by 3 teachers in middle school because they came into the school during class and tried to enter the library. It was a delivery driver who had already checked in with the office but his visitor tag had fallen off, and they assumed he was some rando out of uniform trying to enter a classroom environment.
THE POLICE PROBLEM
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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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.
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ALLIES
• r/ACAB
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INFO
• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom
• Killings by law enforcement in the United States
• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
• When the police knock on your door
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ORGANIZATIONS
• NAACP
• National Police Accountability Project
• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration