Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos

Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by tstrimple on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:53AM (#35287840)

From the outside you can't see all the Thin Blue Line flag bumper stickers or Back the Blue yard signs during BLM protests. The Republican Party hates government, but seems to love cops for some reason. Republicans don't trust the government, but they trust cops. Republicans generally think the government is wholly incompetent, but want them to practice the death penalty and immediately trust the police account of fatal shootings. If Republican distrust of government was consistent, we would be able to address the systemic issues found in many police and sheriff departments around the country. Since our legislature requires a super majority to pass bills, there is no opportunity to address this is in a way that will really make a difference. Instead, each locality has to find a way to influence their police departments individually with very little success.

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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by DFHippie on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:20AM (#35288057)

There is a consistency in Republican attitudes towards government: they trust the parts of government they feel they control and wish to destroy the parts they fear they do not control. Lionize the police and the military. Kill the EPA , NOAA, HUD, the IRS, and the FDA. The only time they hate law enforcement is when it is used to enforce a law against them, see Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, etc. And then boy do they hate it, because they see this as disloyalty, as treason.

This attitude goes way back. It is characterological. See the Fugitive Slave Act versus states' rights.

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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by concordDance on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:41AM (#35288944)

Note that the Democrat views mirror the Republican ones, trusting those institutions they control and distrusting the others.

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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by DFHippie on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:18AM (#35290181)

There I think you need to distinguish Democrat from liberals/leftists/progressives. There are differences of opinions among the latter group. I would say the majority distrust the police and the military but see them as necessary institutions that should be reformed. The Democrats, which is to say the people who have some claim to speak for the party, profess their love for law enforcement and the military, whatever their private reservations. This is not how Republicans, the politicians, behave towards the EPA and the rest.

Also, the Democrats have never had a politician of any stature, let alone a president of their party, say "Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem." That was Ronald Reagan.

In other words, you are right, the left does distrust those portions of the government it does not control, but there is an enormous difference of degree in how the two sides behave towards these portions of the government.

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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by mrguyorama on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:51AM (#35290747)

That's a gross mischaracterization. Democrats trust government as an institution but that does not mean democrats trust all government, it just means they think government can solve problems, as opposed to the republican projected view (though not actual view of their voters IMO) that government is inherently broken as a concept and should be reduced to absolute minimal size.

There's no inconsistency in trusting a democratic process to do mostly democratic things but thinking the lack of accountability in policing has had negative outcomes. The vast majority of democratic voters in america do not support "abolish the police' in entirety, but rather that reforms are needed.

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