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When you only decry the few failures, and never celebrate the many successes and heroes of the police, you sound like a supremacist. When you condemn a whole class of people, how are you preaching something different than what Hitler was preaching? Same same, right? A whole class should be condemned, without exception. That's just nasty, right? Kind of the definition of bigotry and hatred, right?
This is an extremely bad analogy. It's so goddamned awful - both illogical and immoral - that I don't even know where to begin. But I'll try.
Choosing not to celebrate police who do their jobs properly is NOT bigotry. Police officer is a JOB, not a vulnerable class of people.
There are heroic police, just as there were heroic Jews that were publicly condemned for no good reason.
This is depraved.
Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi state.
And you're comparing them to police facing public criticism.
don't know, but I would guess that this officer is human, too. Maybe there is more to the story than is brought out in the article. Maybe he had some personal challenges in his life, just like all of us do. Maybe he deserves some consideration as a human, some compassion and understanding that we would give ourselves when we make a mistake, maybe even the benefit of the doubt, because of the difficult nature of his job.
This officer got "the benefit of the doubt", repeatedly, from his superiors, even when it was plainly obvious his staying on the police force was a danger to the community. Five car accidents, multiple internal affairs recommendations, and only now, at last, he might face some consequences, after he did this to an innocent 60-year-old man:
Deshommes had to have his spleen removed and suffered from a skull fracture, a traumatic brain injury, a broken left arm, a broken back, several broken ribs and a broken pelvis
You don't want "understanding" for this officer. You want impunity, simply because he's police.
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Public servants should not expect it to be newsworthy or laudatory when they do the basics of their job properly. That is (supposedly) what they are paid for.
And when you give a person a gun, a taser, and massive power, it is entirely reasonable to expect a higher standard. Any police officer who can't handle that expectation shouldn't be a police officer. Period.
Either the problem with prison sexual abuse is completely out of hand or the Texas DCJ really really really wants to keep King from seeing these investigative records.
The problem with prison rape is completely out of hand, and the Texas DCJ wants to cover it up.
Well thank god you're here to speak for the poor oppressed homophobic sexist racist authoritarian bootlickers of the police state. Where would we be without you.
Hey look everyone we have our standard racist dogwhistle: When confronted with inexcusable (and yet officially excused) police violence against black people, simply say "Chicago", though the article has nothing to do with Chicago.
anyone looking to bring down an aircraft with explosive devices won't care if they're in the cabin or the hold
I suppose... Two people, each carrying a laptop hiding bomb components, could go through security, and after security assemble a bomb combining the components of the two laptops.
It's the same argument about the liquid restrictions: Two or more people could combine some 3oz liquids to make an explosive mixture.
Basically unless everyone flies naked with no belongings whatsoever, there will be a risk. And no food and drink service on planes, cause they're a risk. And no ground crew, cause they're a risk.
Come to think of it, we might as well ban all travel. It's dangerous.
...the airlines just need more money from checked bag fees?
(yes, yes, I know, airlines are actually worried about this rule because they don't want lithium-ion batteries in checked bags. Don't ruin my bad joke with facts.)
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That would be a good start.
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
This is an extremely bad analogy. It's so goddamned awful - both illogical and immoral - that I don't even know where to begin. But I'll try.
Choosing not to celebrate police who do their jobs properly is NOT bigotry. Police officer is a JOB, not a vulnerable class of people.
This is depraved.
Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi state.
And you're comparing them to police facing public criticism.
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This officer got "the benefit of the doubt", repeatedly, from his superiors, even when it was plainly obvious his staying on the police force was a danger to the community. Five car accidents, multiple internal affairs recommendations, and only now, at last, he might face some consequences, after he did this to an innocent 60-year-old man:
You don't want "understanding" for this officer. You want impunity, simply because he's police.
No.
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And when you give a person a gun, a taser, and massive power, it is entirely reasonable to expect a higher standard. Any police officer who can't handle that expectation shouldn't be a police officer. Period.
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Have I missed something? Are millennials storing money on tables now? (And only on tables belonging to one particular socialist?)
I feel so out of touch. Must be middle-age.
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The problem with prison rape is completely out of hand, and the Texas DCJ wants to cover it up.
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And that sums up life about as well as anything I've ever read.
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When confronted with inexcusable (and yet officially excused) police violence against black people, simply say "Chicago", though the article has nothing to do with Chicago.
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I wouldn't murder innocent people.
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I suppose... Two people, each carrying a laptop hiding bomb components, could go through security, and after security assemble a bomb combining the components of the two laptops.
It's the same argument about the liquid restrictions: Two or more people could combine some 3oz liquids to make an explosive mixture.
Basically unless everyone flies naked with no belongings whatsoever, there will be a risk. And no food and drink service on planes, cause they're a risk. And no ground crew, cause they're a risk.
Come to think of it, we might as well ban all travel. It's dangerous.
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uh oh you printed the whole letter. Now Ken's going to sue you for copyright infringement.
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Many things about America are sad. This is not one of them.
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Maybe...
(yes, yes, I know, airlines are actually worried about this rule because they don't want lithium-ion batteries in checked bags. Don't ruin my bad joke with facts.)
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Wellllll..... paper cuts can be very dangerous. Therefore, passports are deadly weapons.
Please no one tell TSA about the deadly danger of stabbing with pens.
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Or, as President Trump would say...
We're going to goddamned steam.
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Alternatively, we could support fundamental human rights everywhere, including the U.S., on principle.
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