CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by epistasis on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:18AM (#23349617)

I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department. The level of police misconduct that's been captured in camera in the last few days is disturbing. There's always one police officer that rushes into a peaceful situation, from behind, and starts violence. This sort of assault on humans is taken to be their responsibility, apparently, and all the rest of the police stand idly by as one of those in their uniforms commits acts of violence against peaceful people.

I would not be shocked if a majority of the property crime was also police instigated. If they are willing to do this to people, it's far easier to knock out some windows.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by phkahler on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:09AM (#23350828)

>> all the rest of the police stand idly by as one of those in their uniforms commits acts of violence against peaceful people.

That seems to be the problem. It's not so much that one gets out of hand, it's that they don't police themselves. If they want to stop it they'll have to begin with the smaller digressions - like speeding or illegal parking when there's no reason for it. Stop your bro from thinking he's above the law even when it's not a really big deal.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by bsenftner on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:27AM (#23351082)

We need stronger whistle blower protections, laws and incentives. The only people who can police the police are the police. So society needs to create the situation where the incentives to police themselves reward them greater than the current corrupt, immature and racist rewards they reap today.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by orestarod on Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:07AM (#23360265)

You can't reward someone who is in power into not being corrupt and not abusing their power. You prohibit, stop and punish them. Begging only goes so far.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by klenwell on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:16PM (#23351859)

> I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department.

For a more organized version of the mentality, see the Constitutional Sheriffs movement. I forget where I first came across the movement but here's a top Google result about it:

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/the-army-to-se...

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by take_a_breath on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:51AM (#23350573)

==I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department.==

Never heard it put quite this way. Well said!

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by Jenz on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:45PM (#23352270)

Being a punctuation mark enthusiast, I’m very interested where you got that ⟨==xxx==⟩ notation from

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by meshaneian on Saturday May 30, 2020 @04:02AM (#23359373)

I saw similar punctuation on "Forensic Files" used by a serial killer. Not that anyone who uses odd quotes is a serial killer. ~~Just sayin'~~

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by take_a_breath on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:15PM (#23354961)

I like the way it highlights a quote without having to deal with a bunch of actual quotation marks. If something you want to quote includes quotation marks it can be confusing to read (especially on mobile). It also reminds me of commenting out things when programming.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by lrdd on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:59AM (#23401732)

It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by mixmastamyk on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#23355150)

Looks like one of the wiki dialects.

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