Five years after George Floyd's murder.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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And this shit won't be enforced in any way. It's just theatre.
I would love to be proven wrong though.
Agreed. Especially with cop-lover Trump in office. Nothing will change without not just a massive overhaul of the police in every municipality, but also a massive overhaul of police culture.
Because until they stop shit like warrior training, there will continue to be George Floyds.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html
Absolutely. The 'mandates' are a bunch of empty platitudes with loopholes so wide you could drive a semitruck through them. Business will continue as usual.
And yet I fully expect the police union to complain that this will make their jobs harder. Or some braindead bullshit.
You can always trust Americans to do the right thing after exhausting every other option
- Kind of Winston Churchill
5 years later....
That was 5 years ago. What's with the fucking hold up; the fat, doughnut-eating, trigger-happy, right-wing gun-nut, klan-members that are the police force there didn't wanna agree to not systematically discriminate and/or use excessive force, huh?
The Justice Department had to make sure the agreement they entered with the city looked impressive but didn't actually do anything that could ever lead to anyone being held accountable, that kind of careful lawyering takes time
that kind of careful lawyering takes time
This is advanced skullduggery!
But yeah, no one was ever going to do anything about anything. Why would they? It's not like they actually care about you people. And it's not like my country isn't a trainwreck on fire sinking fast into a swamp, but at least our cops are given an education longer than that of a barber's before being given a position of authority, with deadly force to enforce. But, given how much my country nowadays loves to ape whatsoever daddy Amerikkka has done or is doing (I'm looking at you currently-being-privatized once-public healthcare and fascists in the government!), I ain't exactly holding out hope for the future of our police force.
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Goddam, It's not even 11am and I'm barely even awake yet, and I've already lost hope for the future. But I have borderline, so it's normal, usual even, for me to go through many emotions within a short period of time. So much so that I like to jokingly refer to these kinds of cases as "going through the entire spectrum of human emotion until I just feel hollow". Which often happens in the mornings, now that I think about it, after I have read the news and doomscrolled for a while. Funny how it goes like that.
How about serious and lengthy de-escalation training? “Respecting dignity” or “prioritizing life” seems like some nebulous feel-good throwaway terms. Racism? Good luck. Don’t hire racists is the only way around it.
If you participate in Union busting you shouldn't get a Union
Why the fuck did it take 4 years to figure this out‽
Because the cops and their union have been throwing tantrums and bending politicians ears.