Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by readme on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:30PM (#23697109)

The problem here is that police are not infallible but everyone wants them to be. If there is violence in humanity you would be naive to think police would be exempted from it. That is why I don't like coverage like this: why not also catalog some of the good things police do? That wouldn't further your point, so why would you do it?

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by seth_tr on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:38PM (#23697156)

The police don't acknowledge that these were mistake[1][2][3]. They think this is the system working. They act in bad faith and so please don't run around grant them good faith in arguments.

We want the systems that enable this brutality changed.

This is like saying "Facebook does some good things so let's ignore the systematic problems it causes" or "Facebook is staffed by people so we have to accept an amount of them stalking their exes with internal tools"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/buffalo-police-shove-p... "Fifty-seven officers resigned from the department’s Emergency Response Team in solidarity with the two who were suspended." [2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436929/Atlanta-cop... [3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/us/why-police-rally-around-ea...

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by readme on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:42PM (#23697190)

Why not go find me three links to instances where the police did acknowledge their mistakes?

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by seth_tr on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:47PM (#23697232)

I searched google for "police acknowledgement mistake" and several variations. The closest I could find was people calling for the police to acknowledge their mistakes. I can't find the police doing it themselves.

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by readme on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:58PM (#23705816)

thanks for the due dilligence

edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22police%20admit%20to%22

170,000 results

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by ZeikJT on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:08PM (#23720694)

I think a better link is probably: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22police+admit+to%22&tbs=qd...

Though it doesn't give a number of results explicitly there are still several pages of results (though they'd need to be deduped)

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by phonypc on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:38PM (#23697157)

If you look at these things and see the inevitable result of fallible humans, not the willful abuse of power, I'd argue you're not really paying attention.

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by readme on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:43PM (#23697192)

This speaks to me, but I'm not 100% persuaded yet.

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