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Sister (district attorney) and brother in law (cop) are visiting and we've been having a lovely time together. Out of the blue, my sister asks my wife and me to opine on a new police video that's making some news in their jurisdiction:
There's a particularly flagrant hit around the 37 second mark. Anyway, they were baffled why the cops are facing some heat for this. I tried to be as diplomatic as possible noting that it's important to vilify the law, not the officer if he is acting within the law, but that the one particular hit seemed a bit excessive. They went on that he was being defensive, which I found particularly laughable. Anyway, fun to see how people can view the same thing so differently.
There's a particularly flagrant hit around the 37 second mark. Anyway, they were baffled why the cops are facing some heat for this. I tried to be as diplomatic as possible noting that it's important to vilify the law, not the officer if he is acting within the law, but that the one particular hit seemed a bit excessive. They went on that he was being defensive, which I found particularly laughable. Anyway, fun to see how people can view the same thing so differently.
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It's suggestive of how normalized violence is amongst cops and prosecutors. Violence is indicative of a breakdown in social relations in some manner, so the ease in rationalizing and defending the use of violence indicates a breakdown in how one sees civil society function. If your reaction to seeing someone get thrown to the ground or up against the fence by a cop is "That ain't bad," you've normalized something very unhealthy and anti-social.matedog wrote: ↑16 Apr 2019, 10:40amSister (district attorney) and brother in law (cop) are visiting and we've been having a lovely time together. Out of the blue, my sister asks my wife and me to opine on a new police video that's making some news in their jurisdiction:
There's a particularly flagrant hit around the 37 second mark. Anyway, they were baffled why the cops are facing some heat for this. I tried to be as diplomatic as possible noting that it's important to vilify the law, not the officer if he is acting within the law, but that the one particular hit seemed a bit excessive. They went on that he was being defensive, which I found particularly laughable. Anyway, fun to see how people can view the same thing so differently.
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Listening to Carlin today and this thread seemed an appropriate place for this piece:
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https://nypost.com/2019/12/16/within-ho ... hiefs/amp/Within hours, social media scandals bring down two Vermont police chiefs
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Very funny. I liked that bit about the bike crash.
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Another piece on transforming the nature of policing and what we mean by order and the common good:
https://nationalpost.com/news/calum-mar ... nt-radical
I should add that the National Post is a solid conservative paper.
https://nationalpost.com/news/calum-mar ... nt-radical
I should add that the National Post is a solid conservative paper.
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