The police problem is that police are policed *by* the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops *are* caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because *cops protect other cops.* If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Damm, that guy was top notch.
Need more people to be like both the protesters and the reporter. If nobody will be the megaphone for you -- you are fucked. When occupy wallstreet happened the press basically was a sock puppet and a lot of brutality went unreported. Dissent is good but make sure you ally yourselves with the press. Cameras are your friend. Not all cops are bastards but a lot are. Be calm. Be clear and assertive. Be an example.
We are all in this together. United we stand.
"ThEy DoN't EvEn KnOw WhAt ThEy WaNt!"
I remember that and I remember being so goddamn mad about it... That and that Peter Schiff piece of shit...
Something interesting worth nothing, the perceived failure of occupy wall street pushed a lot of leftists to the far right. Some of the organizers of occupy were involved in Jan 6th.
Crazy huh?
It doesn't shock me. Desperation does some pretty fucked up things to people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQp8Lj7jPvQ&pp=ygUTY29mZmVlIGtsYXRjaCByZWljaA%3D%3
He actually discusses how he's interviewed people who were saying "I'm either for Bernie or Trump." It's crazy
What an eloquent young man
Wow, that guy did a great job of staying on point and getting the message across. Well done.
That was absolutely amazing, calm, to the point, poignant and just straight truth while on the literal front lines of the protest. Part of me wants a shortened "highlights" version that's easily shareable to help spread this but at the same time just about everything said feels important.
I hope his message and that of the other protesters gets across to as many people as possible
What a speech! We definitely need more people like the ones standing for what’s right in this shitty world we inherited!
Kudos to the student explaining the situation.
Excited for this to be everywhere on the internet and no where on network television so I still have to explain to my boomer parents why people are furious.
*cowardice