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In reply to the discussion: Do the police think that they are gods? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)124. We all have "power" to kill or harm others
We don't all control it and that is why we have a criminal justice system!
Someone chosen for the police force was at least vetted. Yet any stranger in the street could harm or rob or kill you. Merely because such things are depicted on TV does not mean they don't happen in reality.
What about Trayvon Martin - it wasn't a cop there, was it? What about every victim of Ted Bundy or the like? They'd have been happy to have run into a cop instead.
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Actually the politicians and Plutocrats who armed and metaphorically roided up these cops
Zalatix
May 2012
#13
My points are all documented. There is no conspiratorial fear mongering there at all. Just facts.
Zalatix
May 2012
#15
Ah, so that's why Randy Weaver's wife deserved to die while holding a baby in her arms.
Zalatix
May 2012
#86
That doesn't excuse a law enforcement agent shooting an unarmed woman with a baby in her arms.
Zalatix
May 2012
#88
Gotcha, your argument contained sympathy for the mother and the kid she was holding.
Zalatix
May 2012
#99
Please note this video of a man being threatened and arrested for attempting to file a complaint
Fire Walk With Me
May 2012
#12
All I know is what we can see there. Perhaps if you backtrack to the youtube page
Fire Walk With Me
May 2012
#106
And don't miss this goldmine of examples of undercover cops caught causing trouble:
Fire Walk With Me
May 2012
#14
Just the fact that he felt comfortable doing it is an indictment of our police forces..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#27
When those who are sworn and tasked to uphold the law deliberately break it..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#33
It wasn't a legal act yet many police officers watched it done and never lifted a finger..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#128
There is no evidence that the protesters in the Davis case were breaking the law..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#129
Wow. You probably believe that "police brutality" was a word invented by Oliver Stone.
Zalatix
May 2012
#30
Well, I have not talked to a cop that didn't admit it. Maybe 100 of them in my lifetime of asking..
Logical
May 2012
#52
No it is not good reason. It is actually False Arrest 90% of the time. Are you gullible....
Logical
May 2012
#55
Sorry, he's too busy defending cops who shoot unarmed women with babies in their arms
Zalatix
May 2012
#100
OK, I have no choice but to put you on Ignore for insinuating that
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#136
The only reason the police have more firepower is because more firepower is available to the public.
baldguy
May 2012
#26
I don't know if you're deliberately missing the point, or if you're just too dim to get it.
baldguy
May 2012
#77
Your "argument" - such as it is - doesn't bear the slightest resembance to reality.
baldguy
May 2012
#83
Temper, temper. You're getting absolutely nowhere here except making your case look very bad.
Zalatix
May 2012
#110
You're getting your talking points & tactics directly from Faux Snooze & FreeRepublic.
baldguy
May 2012
#145
"Do you deny the rampant nature of police brutality against Occupy protesters? "
NCTraveler
May 2012
#107
They are part of the new religion of America: the cult of the Blue servants of Robber Baron Capitali
lonestarnot
May 2012
#61
You are far along the path to fucked as soon as you have law enforcement instead of peace officers
TheKentuckian
May 2012
#75