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    DolemiteNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:15pm

    I still think police and politicians should face multipliers on their convictions, because they are in positions of power and we have no choice but to trust them. So if a crime normally carriers a 5 years sentence for a normal, powerless citizen, for a police officer or politician, it should get multiplied by 2.

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      ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon ThumperDolemite
      11/30/18 12:38pm

      Kinda like if you are a classically trained fighter, and you get into a bar fight that someone else started, you can still be charged with assault with a deadly weapon for those fists.

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      SilverX2Dolemite
      11/30/18 12:58pm

      it shouldn’t be a multiplayer it should be a flat life sentence. Corruption will go away pretty quick once this fucking idiots realize they will spend the rest of their lives in a cell.

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    FuckYourRacismYouSCUMNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:22pm

    As far as I’m concerned, that “Blue Line” American flag bullshit is the official flag of a militarized police state. Fascist thugs.

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      phuzzFuckYourRacismYouSCUM
      11/30/18 1:06pm

      You know how US media talks about tinpot dictators as having ‘security forces’. Well I hate to break it to you America but....

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      BladecutterFuckYourRacismYouSCUM
      11/30/18 1:17pm

      There are several in my neighborhood, and it takes all of my willpower to not runaround and set them all on fire in the middle of the night.

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    Downton FlabbyNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:51pm

    The man was a 22-year-old veteran cop

    This is incorrect. He wasn’t 22 years old. He had been a cop for 22 years. From the indictment:

    (8) L.H. had been a SLMPD officer for 22 years and was a detective at the time of the Stockley protests.

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      RandomHookupDownton Flabby
      11/30/18 12:57pm

      He also was found liable of using excessive force himself 8 years ago:

      https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/verdict-for-man-who-alleged-police-beating/article_38b62e25-4c2b-57bd-86cc-9bc0b70192ad.html

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      dennis.gDownton Flabby
      11/30/18 1:01pm

      Thank you. That makes sense.

      I was going to comment that “22-year-old veteran cop” is an oxymoron.

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    Not Enough Day DrinkingNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:19pm

    “Just a few bad apples...”

    I’d be far more surprised if you could find me a few good apples.

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      TopherNot Enough Day Drinking
      11/30/18 12:27pm

      Nobody ever finishes that phrase but I feel like we need to remember that it goes

      “A few bad apples ... ruin the bunch”

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      Brock SamsonNot Enough Day Drinking
      11/30/18 12:35pm

      It’s beyond fucking infuriating when people invoke the “a few bad apples” axiom to defend a group after several members do something abhorrent. The whole fucking saying is “a few bad apples spoils the bunch” not “it’s only a few bad apples, everything’s fine”. When people invoke “a few bad apples” they’re fucking admitting the whole group is rotten!

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    Downton FlabbyNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 1:05pm

    This is an organized criminal gang, and they should be treated accordingly. From the indictment:

    Illustration for article titled
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      Done So DoneDownton Flabby
      11/30/18 1:18pm

      This needs to be juxtaposed with the “protect and serve” lying ass motto and turned into a billboard campaign.

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      itrainmonkeysDownton Flabby
      11/30/18 1:20pm

      “He’s basically a thug that’s on our side” about the black officer he’s paired with.  Real nice.

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    BiPolarWithCarsNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:17pm

    Just another example of how some cops are criminals and cops who protect bad cops deserve the reputation they get.

    There is a solution: Make cops personally liable for their own actions and require them to have 7 figures of liability insurance.

    Why is that a solution? The insurance carriers will, through premium pricing pressures, make damn sure they only cover people with intelligence, they’ll require them to be properly trained, they’ll require constantly recording body and dash cams, and they’ll dump anyone who gets overly aggressive.  

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      IMadeANewBurnerToStarThisPoopJokeBiPolarWithCars
      11/30/18 1:11pm

      No insurer in the world would cover any current police officer individually with those requirements. Intelligence alone weeds them all out. 

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      flash2000BiPolarWithCars
      11/30/18 1:47pm

      I have thought about this too, why dont police officers, like doctors, carry insurance for wrongful death or harm lawsuits.

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    DetmemNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 1:23pm

    If we change we need to focus where it will have the most impact. Kneeling at football games is a nice symbolic gesture, but it doesn’t actually do anything. We need to focus heavily on local elected prosecutor and judge positions. It’s prosecutors who often fail to bring charges. It’s judges who often give a slap on the wrist even if charges are brought and we get a conviction. Yet, how many people can name their local prosecutor?

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      sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameDetmem
      11/30/18 2:07pm

      Kinja’d

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      ZellieDetmem
      11/30/18 7:35pm

      it doesn’t actually do anything.

      Kaepernick’s personal activism alone proves this is false.

      Also, buddy, I’m going to let you in on a wild concept: you can support symbolic protest AND vote in your local judicial elections! Crazy, I know, two whole things at once, but it can be done.

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    Christopher LeeNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 1:41pm

    I can’t feel sympathy for the undercover cop, he was there to police the protesters, and not the police. Had he been there as a safeguard to protect civilians I might be more understanding.

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      Hemmorhagic Dance FeverChristopher Lee
      11/30/18 2:19pm

      All police should be safeguarding civilians. That’s literally their job.

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      Rod Strickland PropaneChristopher Lee
      11/30/18 3:04pm

      Agreed, I found it ironic he was there to narc on the protestors and then got the shit beat out of him simply because he was a black protestor. 

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    skefflesNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 12:52pm

    As a police officer you can brutalize the public all you like, but you gotta protect and serve your blueboy gangmembers.

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      Rod Strickland Propaneskeffles
      11/30/18 3:05pm

      I wonder what word the cops have for “omerta.” 

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      RDoughertyRod Strickland Propane
      11/30/18 4:56pm

      I think they just call it their Oath of Office.

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    Babylon SystemNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 3:50pm

    So, they were only caught because they beat one of their own “blue line” assholes. How many other non-cop victims are out there or in jail on false charges?

    All of their past arrests should be scrutinized.

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