Based on the Portland event, posted by corey/corman earlier, we’ve rocketed right past “smile and wave” and into “spook around and sulk in a black unmarked” in the worst of locales.
I hasten to add that it’s not happening where I live: our guys and gals are solid. That said, I’ve taken the step of sourcing some stats from esteemed P-F member Chuck Haggard, because our city council president has already started some noise about banning “chokeholds and strangleholds” from our LVNR-certified dept., and as a citizen with a vested interest in not seeing Portland/Seattle fuckery migrating inland, I am going to be ready to speak at a council zoom meet, if need be.
One thing is always constant in these OISs...
The politicians never fail to make a rush to judgment. Facts be damned, they're always at the front of the "dipshittery" line.
''Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.'' ―Albert Einstein
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"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
― Ennius
I hope this doesn't spread. IMO, confronting the police with long arms during a riot requires extreme counter measures. None of us really wants to see that because it just leads to more lives lost when the response comes, and I'm sure it will. When a person starts down that road they better be prepared to die in the street. I wonder if those individuals are prepared for that. Maybe they are, IDK.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Our governor is misguided. Never held public office, has relinquished responsibility for CV measures since his updated stay at home order was declared unconstitutional and apparently feels pandering to the popular mob is the way to lead.
I’m glad I live “up north”.