This is exactly why there are non-profit bail funds to donate to in many communities. These funds frequently help cover these people that are the vanguard of democracy.
Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?
I’m stealing the phrase ‘Epstein class’, that’s a great way of explaining how horrific the rich and powerful are
I didn’t coin the term.
Epstein class perfectly describes how they see themselves above laws and human decency. The world should never allow people to amass that much wealth.
What's the alternative though? Let everyone be above the law? Because, that just sounds like a recipe for more trouble.
lol what’s the alternative? Tax the shit out of them. That amount of wealth is a danger to every democracy and the planet.
It's ironic how your first thought is not to make them accountable in front of the law just like everyone else.
I've been using "predator class."
I've used "parasite class," but I think yours is more fitting
The answer is quite mundane. I've a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.
They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don't want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.
They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss's, boss's boss's wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.
End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.
In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren't even technically in the right.
Plausible deniability is the name of the game, or as my lawyer relative would put it - "without the letter of the law (and hard evidence) on your side, don't bother pursuing based on the spirit, no matter how blatant."
Good ol Socko.
Acab, obviously.
But do you seriously not understand why cops follow orders from politicians and not citizens?
We just ignored the part where we cared about who our politicians were.
Predators protect predators.
All of the answers before this are wrong. It's their vein attempt to show us that they're better than us. And that's it. They're so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.
That would explain the massive overlap in domestic violence.
Stupidity.
Cops are almost entirely made up of people who were too stupid to get a white collar job.
Yikes, I really can’t get on board with “blue collar workers are morons”-style thinking.
As a blue collar guy, I think they’re too stupid to be blue collar workers.
Edit- I had to do a 5-year apprenticeship, pass a state certification test and do continual education to maintain the certification.
How long is the average American police academy and how challenging is it?
That YouTube video is wild. Approximately 20 seconds from being first notified that his time was up, officers had already come up to him. 20 seconds. He handed them his documents. He was done. There was no logical reason for the arrest.
The arrest was done to warn the other peasants
Sure there was, they wanted to show their power.
Link?
This data center they're hysterically agitating to build is going to take part of someone's yard, someone's entire house and property, and it will be right by a neighborhood making it's stupid noise. And a lot of people outside of the town will have to deal with $400 per month electric bills, and they just can't afford it.
One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.
Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.
The party of “small government” . I’m sure he’s on the maga cancel culture concentration camp list now..brought to you by palantir because f you
They arrest the opposition for nothing to keep others from speaking out.
“Shut up, Poors.”
Years ago there was a sketch in France making parody of local news to denounce racism: Anchor: "A man shot at a group of Arabs arguing they were too loud. After investigations, the police concluded that indeed, the Arabs were too loud".
This news brought that immediately in my mind.
How long until someone shoots up a construction site for a data center?
Don't even have to go that far. There are cheap and easily available perfectly safe substances that can be dumped on freshly poured concrete, or in empty forms, that keeps concrete from setting up correctly.
Sugar is very effective at destroying concrete
You're only allowed to protest low-income housing in your local town you fucking idiot! God know's that's how democracy works dumby~
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Not advocating violence, but shit like this is going to lead to violence.
That must be that "freedom" that Vance and Rubio say Europe lacks.
Hail Capitalism, hail the Job Creators. /s
These times are going to make The Onion irrelevant.
ACAB
while I don't disagree with your statement, I'm certain that it was not the cops who made this call.
So they were just... following orders?
yes, and they are to blame. but so are those who gave the orders.
So ACAB+
Used his free speech a little bit too long
Meanwhile, we have two members of Mark Zuckerberg's legal team sitting in court wearing facial recognition capable glasses.
It’s easier to target the jury that way
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