NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws

Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te... by giraffe_lady on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:36AM (#35388707)

I'm not claiming protests were or should be necessarily peaceful. Those protests started because of murder and disempowerment, and a context of decades of it.

Making it hard to sympathize with protestors is an important role of the news, and a significant part of why those protests failed.

I've seen astounding violence from police, before during and after those protests. Look at the thread we're in! Look at the one yesterday about them smuggling fentanyl! Look at the one from last week about the LA county sheriff gangs! Protesters don't carry a responsibility to uphold the law, they are a reaction to the police refusing to do so.

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Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te... by ononon on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:59AM (#35389066)

look at your passionate use of italics. he was on fentanyl and meth and he had covid. this is objectively true. i’m sorry you wish he was murdered.

same with michael brown etc. a lot of ppl wish he had his hands up but he just didn’t. sorry.

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Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te... by mrWiz on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:29PM (#35389482)

Floyd had traces of fentanyl and meth in his blood and had used them in the last several days. He did not have enough to be "on" them at the time of death.

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Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te... by giraffe_lady on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:23PM (#35389418)

The police aren't supposed to execute drug users either I don't think we have a different system for that. Or people with covid (??).

And it's actually ok to be upset by people being killed. Good even. If it doesn't bother you your soul is weak and cowardly, as much as you might try to frame it as some inevitable result of objective facts or whatever.

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