What life is like after police ransack your house, then the charges are dropped

Re:What life is like after police ransack your house, then t... by LordKano on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:42PM (#11399993)

I get that it's easy to bury your head in the sand when it comes to these things, but there is a major league problem with the police here in SF. They are accountable to nobody and continue to harass and intimidate everyone, not just minorities.

A lot of people don't understand this.

It starts off with minorities because, being minorities, they don't have the political clout to do anything about it.

The downtown decision makers don't care if some black or brown kid gets his head split open for not moving fast enough when the police ordered him to leave.

They don't care until it's someone that is important to them. When it's John Q MiddleClassSuburbanWhiteTeen who gets arrested for a made up offense, it's too late to fix the problem. At that point, the machinations are already in place to abuse everyone.

What they do to the minorities, they'll eventually do to you.

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Re:What life is like after police ransack your house, then t... by rm_-rf_slash on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:00PM (#11400155)

First they came for the Mexicans, and I did not speak up, for I am not Mexican.

Then they came for the tech bros.

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Re:What life is like after police ransack your house, then t... by spacemanmatt on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:05PM (#11400197)

Austin has plenty of problems with cops killing black people. It's an utter disgrace.

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