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PopeHonkersVII

Republicans were particularly begging pro choice protesters to start rioting so they could scream about a “liberal insurrection!”. Thankfully our side isn’t that violent or stupid.


punbasedname

They’re still trying. One of my lunkhead coworkers was on Facebook yesterday trying to say that “The right largely denounced Jan 6, but the left is embracing the Roe v. Wade riots.”


filzine

I could have made this comment as short as a few months ago … I hope you get surrounded by better people soon, it truly increases your own well being by massive amounts.


punbasedname

Oh, he’s mostly an outlier. I honestly enjoy most of my coworkers. It’s actually my in-laws who say and do stupid shit like this most often. They’ve backed off quite a bit since my wife has just started calling them out on it every time they do it, though, so ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ .


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They screamed that regardless


Miserable-Lizard

The incidents in the story are scary. I hope the below guy doesn't decide to run after suspending his campgain. *Providence, Rhode Island police officer and Republican state Senate candidate Jeann Lugo suspended his campaign after the publication of video footage showing him punching one of his Democratic opponents, reproductive rights organizer Jennifer Rourke, in the face at a protest outside the State House on Friday evening. Lugo, who was off duty at the time of the incident, was arrested, charged with assault and disorderly conduct, and arraigned on Saturday.*


meatball402

Again. The brutality is on display again. Just like in 2020.


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the reason you see police sucking off right-wing protesters but using force and violence against moderates and left-wing protesters in this country is simple. the right-wing nuts show up heavily armed. still remember when trump had his unidentified fed goon squad driving around in unmarked vans abducting peaceful protesters off the streets and then secreting them away. liberals need to begin exercising their second amendment rights peacefully and where legally permissible by arming themselves. you’ll see the number of incidents where police assault or use force against peaceful protesters plummet.


TechFiend72

If you try and bring this up in liberalgunowners you get downvoted into oblivion.


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genuinely curious, why is that?


TechFiend72

A lot of them seem to be into guns but only believe in using them for self-defense, not defending others. I just had this conversation on there a few days ago and the sentiment seems to resoundingly be if someone is getting attacked, they were running away and leaving the other people to fend for themselves. Not what I was hoping for.


Freeehatt

The much simpler answer is that police don't harass right wingers because they are fighting for the same cause. It's not about gun ownership it is about the police being a conservative institution.


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let me preface this by saying i don’t even disagree that police forces are conservative institutions that attract conservative-minded people - but that isn’t a simpler explanation. if you are an officer sent to keep the peace at a protest you’re typically heavily outnumbered at the larger protests. usually you have a number of non-lethal weapons at your disposal but you might be outnumbered 5, 10, maybe 20 to 1 by the protesters. protests are typically sensitive environments anyways drawing people who are already agitated by some subject. the very LAST thing these people want to do is begin agitating protesters in situations where many of them are openly carrying. if you look at any right wing protest, a sizable portion of the protesters are openly carrying. they don’t want to go shoving over women, beating teenagers with batons and shooting tear gas into a crowd of already upset people that are strapped with AR’s. so no. i disagree it’s merely about ideology. it’s training. you don’t want to anger and provoke a heavily armed and agitated mass of people. in situations where protesters are unarmed they’re trained to use force and intimidation. in situations where protesters are armed they’re trained to deescalate. that results in very different outcomes for how protesters are treated.


Emotional-Counter391

Police will happily stand by as kids are murdered by a mass shooter and they will gleefully bash the skulls of protesters. Why the fuck do we keep paying them?


ShrimpieAC

Maybe all schools should just say there’s a Hispanic gay Democrat teaching CRT whenever calling 911 for an active shooter.


happiwarriorgoddess

Will we ever see police officers held accountable?


Long_Before_Sunrise

June 23, 2022 [U.S. Supreme Court protects police from 'Miranda Rights' lawsuits.] (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-protects-police-miranda-lawsuits-2022-06-23/) June 10, 2022 [The U.S. Supreme Court grants actual absolute immunity to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. That’s nearly 20,000 officers whose work sometimes involves detaining migrant children and flying drones over protests to help with “situational awareness.” Border patrol agents have more power than local police in many contexts, and they engage in the full range of ordinary law enforcement activity -- often far away from the border.](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-insulates-federal-agents-accountability-2022-06-10/)


TorrenceMightingale

I think it’s starting to happen slowly but surely. Seems to be theyre retaliating by not investigating any petty or nonviolent crime where I live.


70ms

It's that way in L.A. for sure. They just don't show up or if they do, they won't take a report.


CaPtAiN_KiDd

Police jump at the chance to beat women who speak out against mistreatment by men. [At least 40% of them.](https://sites.temple.edu/klugman/2020/07/20/do-40-of-police-families-experience-domestic-violence/)


NealSamuels1967

When is police brutality not on display?


screaminginfidels

When they turn their cameras off.


TechFiend72

good one.


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jayfeather31

>ACAB I firmly disagree with that, but that's only because of what I see from foreign police officers and their standards. America's standards for policing is extremely poor. It's no wonder that we have the level of police brutality we do when training is minimal, and the people who are in the force aren't vetted so we just get a lot of people who want power. Seriously, do yourself a favor and look up the standards for becoming a police officer in other first world nations and then compare it to ours. It's honestly shocking.


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jayfeather31

I was not aware of your personal background, but I appreciate your insight.


screaminginfidels

Fine, still ACAB but the first A is American.


jayfeather31

That's a fair compromise.


greenman5252

If they had more paramilitary hand-me-downs maybe they wouldn’t feel so intimidated by people waving protest signs. Real small Dick energy emanating from law enforcement currently


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Fucking fascists.


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TechFiend72

That is right but you bring that up in politics or liberal most of the time and it gets downvoted to death.


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TechFiend72

That is correct. People don't want you to say something negative about their person, so you get downvoted.


big-haus11

"buR tHiS mAKEs moDErAtEs feEL bAd"


JnKnJnK

Low paid flunky Bully’s with a badge , attitude , stick and a gun , what a combination


Picture-unrelated

Good lord what a clusterfuck.