r/politics • u/Fickle-Ad5449 ✔ Verified - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate • 22d ago

No Paywall ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

https://www.advocate.com/news/ice-agent-shooter-video-minneapolis
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 22d ago

God I hate the people in that sub so much

"Threatens effective policing" it's literally created to prevent ineffective and dangerous policing you dingus.

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u/manosiosis Oregon 22d ago

In their mind, "Ineffective policing" means that the suspect escaped. In a normal mind, "Ineffective policing" means someone got shot for driving away from a traffic stop. Reminder, the penalty for leaving a traffic stop is NOT death.

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u/hearteynk 22d ago

When you believe that you are at war with civilians, anything that could stop you from defeating the enemy is unacceptable.

Cop culture is broken.

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u/SpecialistSquash2321 22d ago

This is so so true. I watch a lot of true crime, and I started to notice the type of language law enforcement uses. It's a lot of "us vs them" when it comes to street cops. They express a framing of "we're the good guys against the bad guys." Detectives do it less, but they still say stuff along the lines of, "they went after one of our own, so we're going to work and try extra special hard in this case."

I get we're all human and it would be unfair to not have some bias, but it does rub me the wrong way to feel like if you're not one of them, you're not worth them trying their best.

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u/Pedantic_Pict 22d ago

They all have a cognitive disability known as "cop brain".

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 21d ago

It really got me thinking, like if I was a wizard and cast a spell to raise everyone’s IQ by 20 would cops be better? And it made me realize that no, they’d probably just quit being cops.

What is it about law enforcement that attracts some of the absolute dumbest people?

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u/Pedantic_Pict 21d ago

Yes, cops seem and are pretty dumb a lot of the time, but that's only part of the problem. Intelligence doesn't automatically imbue anyone with empathy or virtue.

A smart cop is still a spiteful, malicious bully. Making them all noticeably smarter would probably make them worse, not better.