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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by koolba on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:24AM (#21407555)
What’s ACAB?
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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eden_h on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:12AM (#21407839)
"All Cops Are Bastards" - It's to do with all individual police officers, who could be perfectly moral upstanding citizens, being complicit with an institution that has done terrible things.

It's more of a reaction to the idea of changing an institution from the inside.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by appleflaxen on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:47AM (#21407672)
It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards", and is a common graffiti tag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.A.B.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by smcl on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:28AM (#21407579)
It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards"
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