
Originally Posted by
Roarke
Pipe down, Judge Dredd. You really, really, REALLY don't want to tangle with me on this.
In these forums, unlike in real life, you don't have your badge and gun and taser to hide behind.
...nor lapdog prosecutors covering for you by withholding indictments for aggravated assault under cover of authority.
...nor bogus charges of "disturbing the peace", "disorderly conduct", "resisting arrest without violence", or any of the other ♥♥ infractions that essentially translate to "contempt of cop".
You've actually got a fair fight on your hands, and without your favored tools of thuggery, I profoundly doubt you can handle it.
To it, then...
Jon Burge. John Pike. Abner Louima. Henry Davis (another Ferguson alumnus, but from 2009).
Google the names if you don't recognize them.
All atrocities by any definition of the word, all grotesquely under-punished (or not punished at all) because the perpetrators wore blue.
Sure, most officers are quite honorable, doing an extremely difficult, life-threatening job for mediocre pay. But these same individuals also turn a blind eye when the vilest among their brethren commit utterly barbaric acts, and there's a word for people like that:
Accomplices.
So go ahead and make sweeping statements that "cops don't have the right to go around shooting people" (or, by implication, commit any other heinous acts), but anybody willing to do the slightest bit of research knows that for what it is...
A lie.
(And finally, my deepest and sincerest apologies to the moderators for going so wildly off-topic in this thread. Hit me with a formal warning or temporary ban if you must, but statements like the one that triggered this derailment simply CANNOT go unchallenged.)
(One last thing -- I will not continue this discussion via PM. Laundry this dirty can only be properly aired in public -- with witnesses.)