Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig...
by djsumdog on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:02PM
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I use to hate police when I was younger. I think the advent of the body camera has been a game changer. I've also seen police do incredible heroically things they did not need to do. I wrote this a few weeks ago:
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-the-...
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig...
by unethical_ban on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:00AM
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We've seen hundreds of instances of police brutality, many of them after George Floyd was murdered. After Breonna Taylor was negligently killed by incompetent cops, judges and prosecutors. The state is killing people. That should be worth protesting.
> It frustrates me to no end that people will hear one boogeyman then start talking about the end of civilization.
It also frustrates me to no end that people will see one police brutality case, which was later challenged with tons of video evidence, then start talking about all cops are bad, there is this and that evil systemically, and then start rioting and looting with all righteousness.