Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
by pseudalopex on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:35PM
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Police abolitionists talk about plans and years. The Seattle police abandoned a neighborhood when not asked and faked reports of armed terrorists.[1]
The 16 year old was Antonio Mays. He drove a car through the occupied park and at a group of protesters. It's all on video? Not only parts of the aftermath? Where?
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seattle-police-carried-...
Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
by fundad on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:01AM
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I bet they put out a statement that he succumbed to a medical emergency and every other public safety institution believed them right? Right!?
Re:Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
by haberman on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:51AM
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Their statement glorified the shooting and bragged of the "beautiful shot placement." https://web.archive.org/web/20200630012725/https://twitter.c...
Show me a group that doesn't do this.
In Seattle's 2020 cop-free zone CHOP/CHAZ, the self-appointed "security forces" killed an unarmed 16-year-old. It's all on video, and the statements made by the assailants in the aftermath are heinous. Plenty of people were there to see it, but nobody's talking, and at this point it looks like they'll probably never catch the killers.
I don't excuse or accept bad behavior by cops. But I can't call policing unethical by nature unless you can show me an alternative that is more ethical. Seattle got an experiment in the alternative, and it was not good.