Exactly. Trump and his sock puppets are naturally shouting that evil Democrats want to have no law enforcement of any kind, but that's a huge red herring. The point of defunding and disbanding is to create something new that accomplishes what the current system has failed to do. I don't think anyone can possibly argue that the current policing system has been successful.
There is no need to have all police officers carry guns and especially no need to have armed officers respond to every call. How ridiculous is it that school resource officers carry guns and bulletproof vests? And before anyone brings up school shootings, I'd like to point out how exceedingly rare they are but also what happened last time we had a major school shooting in Florida.
For entirely too long, policing has looked like pacification. Police officers have looked and behaved like an occupying army. Especially in minority areas and neighbourhoods. Probably the most infuriating way in which this manifests itself is the demand for absolute compliance and the lengths the police will go to get it. How often do you have ridiculous chases and police officers discharging weapons because a suspect was "going to get away?" In situations where said suspect might have been unarmed, was not posing an immediate danger to the public, or was not even the person they were looking for? That's okay. If they run, you can shoot. If they try to pass what might have been a fake 20, you can kneel on their neck until they die.
I don't know if these attitudes can be fixed with more training and oversight. I think it needs to be blown up and replaced by something new.
Who are those egghead intellectual dollies of the so-called Commie Left?? Cloward-Piven strategy. Burn the world down so we can build it right.
It's pretty clear there's major funding going into these riots.
Riots have been waiting for a pretext, I think, for a long time.
The on-going deliberate build-up of this has made me go back and look again at the videos of the initial originating event, which almost everyone deplored instantly.
So I was in my old home town in Nevada once, on business, and a local competitor called on his police buddies to run me outta town. I was in the Hilton, and went out into the parking lot to take care of some things. Somebody drove up in a truck and asked me if I was selling my stuff. I said "Not Here". He asked my price, I said "$5000--but in California". He hit the gas and drove off, and five police cruisers raced in to surround me. Jacked my arm and threw me on the asphalt, and told me to stay outta their town. I didn't even get mad. I stayed polite, did what they asked. Some of the other officers got cautious and startede advising they back off. I have never been back. But these officers got a con to try to bait me, gave him counts off his charges or something, and used force without provocation, and did a completely illegal stop and harassment.
I'm not really inclined to idolize police officers who have been to some extent corrupted or trained to use impudent or arrogant tactics, or indoctrinated versus the public so they are mentally destabilized against violating human rights for their career. I just know I need to take care not to trigger them, alright.
But in looking at the video, I'm pretty sure the victim was on meth, with fentanyl to boot. He forced the officers to lay hands on him, and they were not able to cuff him. That is why the idiot cop put his knee on the neck. I think they did get the cuffs on, and the prick sat there to gloat way too long. But it was the fentanyl that killed him, and the officers failed to administer the indicated antidote.
What we have going on here is the deliberate take-down of our police with the intent to replace it with political provocateurs of the highest order. We will see a chant go out for "Strong Cities" with less human rights respected, not more.
This is a beginning of policed insurrection, not an end to a stupid riot.
