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#5: Yes, he was standing. And he was still only as tall as the kneelers. I saw one comment on twitter say he couldn't kneel or a "Humpty Dumpty" scenario would occur.
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[NYPOST] This is the cop-free world that Black Lives Matter protesters are dreaming about. Whatcha might call an Emma Goldman world.
Social workers and religious leaders would replace officers on the street — and there would be no crimes such as stealing because the community workers would do such a good job helping everyone, fueled by money redirected from local police departments, advocates claim. Well, of course. Like they do with the children entrusted to their care from abusive families.
“Right now, cops don’t just respond to violent crimes; they make needless traffic stops, Drunk drivers, the people who drive 70 mph in residential zones, that sort of thing. What are a few brats run over in the great scheme of things? There's more where they came from.
arrest petty drug users, ... and dealers and importers...
and engage in a wide range of ‘broken windows policing’ behaviors that only serve to keep more people under the thumb of the criminal-justice system,” reads the Web site for the Minneapolis community coalition MPD150. Broken Windows policing has been shown empirically to work, but if empirical evidence contradicts theory, guess which one goes out the door.
The group — whose name refers to the Minneapolis Police Department and the organization’s “150 year performance review’’ of the cop agency in 2017 — has been calling for the MPD to be dismantled. So let's put Minneapolis up as a test case and see how it works. I'm sure as hell not moving there. Let us know what the population is in five years, if there's anybody still there alive.
Its efforts gained massive momentum after Minneapolis resident George Floyd’s death May 25, when the 46-year-old black man died in a shocking police-brutality case involving a white cop and three other officers.
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Still, a small “specialized class of public servants” to fight crime might be necessary to fight some crime that slips through the cracks, they acknowledge.
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The radical left has abandoned all 669,000 law enforcement officers over the of death of one drug user.
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This is about money.
It is a bribe (a mordida).
It is not about justice.
Just as the man was using counterfeit bills to feed his drug habit, the social justice complainers want their share of the money to feed their own habits.
These social justice people do not care about crime or even shootings unless law abiding gun owners or the President can be blamed.
I like aggressive cops.
If only an aggressive cop would have been at the Parkland, Florida shooting, he would have taken the active shooter down before he could kill more school children, unlike the coward officer who waited outside the school while the shooting was going on.
But that is the kind of policing these guys like so they never blamed that do nothing officer.
If these greedy social justice people have their way vulnerable school children will be at greater risk in the future.
...But he could not escape the violence of Houston's underground scene, and was arrested several times for thefts and drug dealing. Local media said he was jailed in the early 2000s for armed burglary, serving four years.
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let me guess, when this fails, it will be because of 'systemic racism' AKA 'wreckers' and the solution will be to throw more money down the money hole.
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Point is (1) what he did before (and paid his debt to society) is not relevant but, most importantly, (2), how is taking drugs in and of itself "violent"? His body, his rules. Who cares?
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Social workers and religious leaders would replace officers on the street
So, as I imagine this, there will be a squad car (or what would you call it? An empathy-mobile?) ready to roll at 2AM on the south side of Chicago with a social worker and a pastor in it. They get the call that there's an armed robbery in progress. They go there and (1) convince the victim to part with his property or (2) give money to the perp or (3) get shot themselves?
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06/09/2020 9:31 Comments ||
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Pfather Pfleger
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There is a wave of left-wing craziness sweeping the land.
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*Police officers require Post Certification (Peace Officer Standards & Training) Commission (P.O.S.T.). The training of officers is extensive and ongoing and covers many things. There is a requirement of yearly training of at least 40 hours. Diversity training, emergency treatment, community policy, investigative techniques, evidence preservation, accident reconstruction, laws, crowd control, traffic management, disasters and many other things are covered.
*The knee-jerk reactions of the BLM activists probably did not consider such things.
*I definitely would not want some community-organizer activist type showing up at an accident scene or a crime scene or my house.
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I can promise you that no police will lead almost immediately to a return of citizen vigilance committees who will deliver on the spot Justice to criminals involving a rope or 12 gauge to the face. There will be no more endless appeals, lawyers or street cred from being in prison cause first offense will be death. You hurt someone's family when there is no police to turn to, I promise reason goes out the window.
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...engage in a wide range of ‘broken windows policing’ behaviors that only serve to keep more people under the thumb of the criminal-justice system...
Thankfully in the city where I live, there is no talk of defunding the police. So, if you break my window, I will call the cops and you will go to jail.
Broken windows are a sign of rot in a community. Whatever causes broken windows will cause other types of rot and more of it. If you do not deal with the causes, you end up with Detroit...or Minneapolis.
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His body, his rules. Who cares?
Although I have no first hand experience, I think it must be very difficult to hold a job if you are hooked on opioids or methamphetamine. Then, to feed your habit, you must resort to crime like passing counterfeit money. You might even sell the poison to children which is a particularly heinous crime. Not cool.
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The parallel universes some people live in. What will happen is that Minneapolis will become subdivided among various gangs and their "turf." You will be perfectly safe within one gang's turf, but I wouldn't recommend crossing any lines. If you have to go somewhere across gang lines, well, that becomes your problem.
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If that happens, I suggest gangs stay IN their city, not venture into the countryside which might just take a shoot on sight attitude toward gold chaining wearing tattooed thugs.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Minneapolis' City Council president Lisa Bender defended the move to disband the city's police department on Monday
She explained George Floyd's death was a 'wake-up call' that the police 'is not keeping every member of our community safe'
When asked what will happen if a home is broken into, Bender explained that her worry and expectation police will help comes from a place of privilege
She said council is already working on community-based safety strategies and analyzing how to shift some 911 calls to crisis and mental health workers
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Just a wild guess, of course, but I predict some "unforeseen consequences".
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At some point we're gonna see defense gadgets like they had in South Africa for a time. Aftermarket flamethrowers for your car, fun stuff like that to keep the bad folks away.
#7
If you are having a home invasion, I doubt that you are thinking about this white privilege bull. Most likely, you are terrified or wondering if you are going to survive. (Some might be thinking about getting to their firearm quickly.)
Lisa Bender is a nutjob who believes all the crap that has been spoon fed to her.
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Well this looks like setting up a hypothesis and performing experiments to test same hypothesis. In other words, we have a science project based on Bender’s hypothesis.
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Community based safety strategies is gonna be all the homeowners buying shotguns. Then try to elect new city council members who aren't full on bat shit crazy. But I still think the best way to stay safe in Minneapolis is to get the hell outta there.
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That's what home carry is for. Much quicker to respond.
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'I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done,' she added.
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I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done,' she added.
That was the situation in Brussels in 1995. I was warned by the local branch of the American Women’s Club that it was a bad idea to let in the police outside of business hours. It subsequently was revealed that the child trafficking ring ran through the office of the Minister of the Interior, though they mainly dealt in the children of refugees. It was a friend of the police who kidnapped local girls and kept them in a secret dungeon behind a false wall in his basement.
[BREITBART] Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s gun control policy statement includes a push to prohibit the use of any federal funds to train teachers in firearm usage for classroom defense. They don't need no damn training. Let 'em just blast away.
The statement on JoeBiden.com says, "We should be passing rational gun laws, not requiring educators who already have too much on their plates to also protect the safety of their students." You'd think that it would be rational that anyone who may remotely be required to discharge a gun would be trained to do it, but maybe that's just me.
It goes on to say, "Biden supports barring states from using federal dollars to arm or train educators to discharge firearms." Art, music, civics, geography, and actual history can be replaced by junk courses, but don't teach teachers how to protect students.
Biden’s Education Plan lists as one of his main goals, "defeat the National Rifle Association," Breitbart News reported. I'm not sure how a purely partisan political objective fits with an "Education Plan."
Therefore, two aspects of Biden’s approach to education/school safety are no federal funds to train teachers to use firearms for classroom defense, and defeat the NRA.
#2
It's second in the Constitution but some things he would direct oodles of taxpayer looted cash for are nowhere or pretty directly advocated against.
[NYPOST] Minneapolis’ soy boy of a mayor, Jacob Frey, proves that no matter how much you abase yourself to the mob, you can never be woke enough.
In a scene reminiscent of a Maoist struggle session, he stood before two black protest organizers Saturday and confessed through a mask into a microphone that he was "coming to grips with my own brokenness."
But the organizers, standing on a platform above him, weren’t interested in providing therapy for this 38-year-old man-child.
"Yes or no?" asked a woman with a microphone. "Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department ... We don’t want no more police."
Poor Frey couldn’t bring himself to say yes, so his fate was sealed.
"Get the f—k out of here!" she snarled, and he was forced into a ritual walk of shame through the jeering crowd as they chanted, "Go home, Jacob!"
The only thing missing was a sign around his neck listing his transgressions.
Frey also made a fool spectacle of himself in front of hundreds of people in a Minneapolis chapel at a memorial service Thursday for George Floyd, the black man whose death under the knee of a white police officer has sparked nationwide protests.
Kneeling beside Floyd’s golden casket, Frey’s body trembled with great heaving sobs, as people nearby looked on in wonderment.
Someone should tell this half-price Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... to stop wallowing in his own brokenness and start repairing his broken city.
There is no patience for self-indulgence amid the ruins. If Minneapolis had a grownup mayor instead of a snowflake, the rioting and looting of the past two weeks might have been nipped in the bud and America spared more pain piled on top of the pandemic.
Instead, the nation suffers due to one man’s inadequacies.
Frey is the perfect representative of a Democratic Party that has moved so far left, it is eating itself alive.
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Kneeling beside Floyd’s golden casket, Frey’s body trembled with great heaving sobs, as he envisioned his once promising political career swirling the bowl, going down, down...
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Frey is originally from Fairfax VA and a graduate of William & Mary. I am sure his goal was to became a Minnesota Senator for life and move back to Virginia.
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#1, his career in politics may be going down the toilet. But if he looks like that at 38, he's got a great career shilling for Estee Lauder or Oil of Olay.
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But if he looks like that at 38, he's got a great career shilling for Estee Lauder or Oil of Olay.
When one door closes, another opens. I hope he finds his true calling, hopefully somewhere far away from us.
[Daily Wire] Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, a Democrat, pushed to make drastic cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) funding amid a nationwide campaign by the far-left to defund police departments — a move she made while having an LAPD unit stationed outside her private home since April.
Spectrum News 1 journalist Natalie Brunell reported that the unit, which guards Martinez’s home, usually includes two police officers and has been in place for the last two months.
“The private security detail infuriated some members of the force when Martinez became one of the council members to spearhead a motion to cut $150 million in funding to the LAPD’s budget,” Brunell reported Monday. “Multiple LAPD sources confirmed the units were directed to provide 24/7 security beginning April 4 at Martinez’s home, almost always staffed by two officers. As of May 6, we’re told the detail decreased to 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with roving patrol checks overnight.”
Ann Althouse via Instapundit"
In this WaPo op-ed — "Defund the police? Here’s what that really means." — by Christy E. Lopez, who is a a Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown Law School where she co-directs the Innovative Policing Program. She tells us not to be "afraid" because it's "not as scary (or even as radical) as it sounds."
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[NYPOST] This is the cop-free world that Black Lives Matter protesters are dreaming about.
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...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
[Daily Wire] Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, a Democrat, pushed to make drastic cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) funding amid a nationwide campaign by the far-left to defund police departments — a move she made while having an LAPD unit stationed outside her private home since April.
