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[–] givesomefucks 46 points 8 months ago

One of the videos—posted less than 12 hours after the police raids on encampments at New York University and the New School last Friday—showed officers standing at attention as John Chell, chief of patrol for the NYPD, instructs them to remain “professional” and “firm, but fair.” Chell reminds them, “You’re dealing with children or teenagers slash young adults that aren’t at the mental capacity that you are at as professional police officers—keep that in mind.” Ominous music plays in the background as scenes of protesters wearing keffiyehs flicker across the screen. One shot showed a protester flipping off the camera.

The main difference is no one has ever been prevented from becoming a college student because their IQ was too high...

Another difference between these protestors and the NYPD is only one group seems capable of empathy outside of videos for tiktok.

Like, if this chat was sincere, the NYPD would be cracking down on all the cops that didn't listen

[–] BassTurd 25 points 8 months ago
[–] m13 9 points 8 months ago

“The enemy is both weak (children without the same mental capacity as a cop) and strong (professional agitators with a mastermind behind everything.)”

Cops literally can’t imagine human beings organising organically as part of a community to achieve a common goal. There needs to be a hierarchy, someone “behind it”, or a “mastermind”. It couldn’t possibly be that these are just humans doing their best to try to stop a genocide by the machines of capitalism, colonialism, and the state.

“Look they got water! Definitely a mastermind here!”

[–] masquenox 2 points 8 months ago

The police is literally the paramilitary through which the state exercises it's monopoly on violence... there is absolutely nothing the police does that is "merely" dumb and absolutely nothing it does that isn't dangerous.

You might just as well say that there's a way of crashing a truck into a crowd that is merely "dumb" but (somehow) "not dangerous."