LA cops force their horses to run over protester
LA cops force their horses to run over protester
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Not surprising at all, there's been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don't just become monsters overnight. They've been trained over the years to behave this way.
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The job also attracts monsters and that’s who they want to hire
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Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won't move.
That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.
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The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I've ever seen.
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What about this?
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Who would have thought the LAPD would commit such blatant police brutality? Oh wait, everyone.
If you ever wonder why police budgets are so over-inflated, it's because an absurd number of their unqualified thugs get sued for shot like this, and they have to pay out huge amounts of compensation. You'd think they'd learn, but they won't as long as they keep getting basically unlimited budgets and no real consequences.
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I made an argument with one of my co-workers that I think that police unions should have to pay all legal bills and payouts for cops getting sued for violating rights. He responded "That's a quick way to get rid of all police unions," I had to stop and think if that would be a problem or not.
My point was the police unions are the only ones that can hold their members accountable. If they forced their members to act better instead of being thugs then things might change. If Police unions don't hold themselves accountable then no one will.
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Under Capitalism, the police can only ever be the millitant arm of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. ACAB has value as a phrase because the police only serve Capital. As long as Capital is dominant over humanity, rather than the inverse, police will be used primarily against the working class.
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legallawsuit payouts don't come from the cops, their insurance, or their pensions. The taxpayers foot the bill for the lawsuits by losing money from their city's funds. -
NYPD pays $600,000/ year as pension.
They have to be destroyed by any means necessary.
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There are a million problems with the police, but this isn't anywhere near accurate.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/publications/1841/20-year-retirement-benefit
With 20 years of creditable service, you will receive a retirement benefit of 50 percent of your Final Average Salary (FAS).
NYPD cops aren't pulling in an average of $1.2 million per year.
Edit -- better source:
The average pension received by full career retirees was $84,964.
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Those Nazis are attempting murder.
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Bunch of fucking nazis.
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looking at how even the horses are disobeying being forced to harm people - we can conclude that calling cops animals is not appropriate - ghouls and psychopaths seems more adequate but don't let me stop you from listing all other fitting names you can think of:
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I like the word ghoul though, I don't wanna ruin it with their taint
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tyrants
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I made a clip of this in better quality from the actual video
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Mvp
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Watched this live all day at work. So much of this shit went on. The whole thing with CHP trapped under the overpasses was set up to be a massacre, but the protestors didn't kill them.
No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.
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No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.
Or they know the violent threat they're using as justification is total fiction.
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Like during Black Lives Matter rallies where pallets of bricks were randomly in the middle of roads.
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They’re hoping for bloodshed on the side of police or military, it’s their ticket to ride. They can do whatever they want once they establish the civilian populace as a threat to military personnel. These guys are little more than sacrificial pawns as far as the administration is concerned, they’re hoping that at least one of them meets a violent enough end so they can justify martial law and start unloading on every crowd of protesters.
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Disgusting. ACAB.
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From AXN live stream earlier today
See the signpost in the middle-
Hell yea. That shot is almost poetic. Hopefully the protestors can stay as safe as they can in the face of the fascist crackdown.
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There was yet another incident of horse-involved police brutality posted to reddit this morning:
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Arent you guys supposed to have weapons in case a tyranical government or something like that?
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The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.
You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.
Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.
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Thanks for the reading recomendation, will look into it. Yeah, times of crisis are really fast destroyers of lies, such as that the ruling classes would allow the ruled to arm against them. If the propaganda meltdown was in turbo mode after israel started the genocide, a civil conflict inside the us will give it a spaceship engine
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That was a lie. The ones who don't like tyranny don't like guns, and the ones who like guns don't actually mind tyranny, so long as it hurts the right people.
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If those who oppose tyrany wont starting using guns, they can rest well assured repression and death awaits
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This could cause a civil war.
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Can you legally shoot a cop if they were shooting at you for no reason?
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You wouldn't be alive to defend yourself in court. But not only that, US cops are extremely protected legally. If you put a hand on them that's assaulting an officer and you'll get prison time.
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Show him the constitution and he will unshoot you
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The Police DO love a little Fascism.
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Defund the entire department until they bring forward the cops who did this
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LAPD is a fucking gang
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When criminals wear badges.
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yup, weve been saying this shit. and that isnt considering the fact they have been doing it to other countries as well for decades.
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??? No different than Russia? HAVE YOU READ THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.? THERE ISN'T EVEN A SIDE OF COMPARISON RUSSIA LOOKS LIKE THE LAND OF PEACE COMPARED TO THE U.S.
I suggest you read "Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire"
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As someone raised in LA I think this is the first time I've actually seen police on horses. Where in the protests did that particular one happen?
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You got to be fucking kidding me
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The police badge is the most common gang sign that I regularly see.
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Those aren’t cops, those are murders.
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All cops are cowards.
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Fuck USA! USA!USA!
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Why the fuck do the police still use horses?
Are there still bandits in the wild west robbing steam trains?
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Diet coke tainamen square?
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If it was Tiananmen the horse would have stopped
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And then run over with treads. And then reversed. And then run over again. And then hosed the remains into a nearby sewer.
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If we take most reliable estimates of the casualties than happened in the june 4th incident, ~200, then US cops kill more than that in 2 months.
Or if you want a single internal incident, during the Waco siege the US burned alive ~90 people, many women and children included.
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And US cops don't wait for protestors to burn a bunch of policemen and try to kill bystanders. But then again, the most prominent organizers ain't CIA so why would they ever do that.
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Fake democracy
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They have to be killed. One day you'll learn.
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How many of you up in arms now didn't vote to keep that orange fucker out of power?
This is the America you all bought while chortling like removed to TikTok hoes instead of getting your asses into gear and defeating fascism with your vote.
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Kamala feels the same about protestors.
The US is not a democracy.
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Yuuuuup. Same shit different can.
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instead of getting your asses into gear and defeating fascism with your vote.
Lol, lmao even.
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This is who you wanted us to vote for.
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Bruh I thought "what's with the hair" until I realized the coconut joke, 10/10
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I always know that whenever some shit like this happens the first comments will be dumbass libs reveling in the violence. I'm sorry that you didn't get to pretend it wasn't happening (because your guy/gal did it) and could more comfortably stay in your armchair. But find a way to stay in the armchair you did, by reframing it as "well, I did my duty, not my fault! Bring out the guns and see if they learn their place!".
Fucking cowards.
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