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    4 months ago

    No deputies were injured, the sheriff’s office said.

    Cowards with guns and itchy trigger fingers. Watching bodycam videos on YT, it’s incredible how risk-averse they are. It makes the inaction at Uvalde clearer.

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      if they acted on the uvalde shooting the number of casualties would have probably tripled.

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      The Uvalde cops saved lives. Imagine how many kids they would have shot if they had entered the school.

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      I watched one the other day where a black soldier in uniform was pulled over at night so he pulled into a gas station instead of stopping on the side of the dark road and the cops who pulled him over were super aggro about it and from the jump were pointing guns and yelling at him to get out of the vehicle. He put his hands out the window and was asking them what was going on and all they would do was continue screaming at him to do what they say and get out. One of the cops eventually walked all the way up to his window and pepper sprayed him. I think they cops got in trouble for it afterwards but it was so stupid. All they had to do was talk to the dude.

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        The best part is, is that pretty much every police department says to…if you get pulled over, to acknowledge the officer, and pull over where its safe, and to drive at low speed, to the nearest illuminated area.

        and the second you do exactly that, the swat team is deployed and, if you manage to fucking survive, you end up on the ER with chemical burns at best, broken bones or gunshot at worst.

        Following orders is not a guarantee to prevent being murdered, just look at Daniel Shaver.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

      The cops have classes that teach them to murder first because protect and serve is bullshit.

      There are several of these “classes” that PD pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to train cops to be fascist fuck machines.

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-trainer-best-sex-killing/

      Historically, all the force, money, and power the cops abuse are why the Templar Knights were eventually tried and burned at the stake for sex crimes, theft, and satanism. Same shit; different century.

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/five-officers-fired-sex-scandal-roils-tennessee-police-department-rcna65121

      Oddly enough the Knights were tortured to death for their hypocritically evil sexually perverse behavior. I don’t see that happened to these pigs any time soon though. But they will torture and murder you for doing nothing but having a bad day.