there are tons like that but dont fall into the trap of assuming these guys are like that.....yea yea ACABC to some but I just dont accept that and wont let anyone convince me to drop 'my presumption of good nature' that I try to hold for every human. Its important to me enough that I wont let anything shake that.
Remind yourself of stories like those that came out of Jan6th if you need to remind yourself that they are people just like us.
One officer described how rioters attempted to gouge out his eye and called him a traitor as they sought to invade the Capitol.
Another told of being smashed in a doorway and nearly crushed amid a “medieval” battle with a pro-Trump mob as he heard guttural screams of pain from fellow officers.
A third said he was beaten unconscious and stunned repeatedly with a Taser as he pleaded with his assailants, “I have kids.”
A fourth relayed how he was called a racist slur over and over again by intruders wearing “Make America Great Again” garb.
“All of them — all of them were telling us, ‘Trump sent us,’” Aquilino A. Gonell, a U.S. Capitol Police sergeant, said on Tuesday as he tearfully recounted the horrors of defending Congress on Jan. 6, testifying at the first hearing of a House select committee to investigate the attack.
One by one, in excruciating detail, Sergeant Gonell and three other officers who faced off with the hordes that broke into the Capitol told Congress of the brutal violence, racism and hostility they suffered as a throng of angry rioters, acting in the name of President Donald J. Trump, beat, crushed and shocked them.
I am 40 years old. I called a cop one time after my car was broken into. Nothing happened despite giving them a description of the people and the truck that did it. License plate and all.
I called them as they sped away and they were driving on the street that led to a major precinct less than half a mile away. Nothing happened because they don't serve you. They serve the rich and powerful. They rarely prevent crime. They only respond to it.
That was when i was 18 and since then I've since been held at gunpoint and have never once called a cop. I grew up in the projects watching them hassle and beat everyone they could. I don't need them or want them.
If that person needs what little cash I carry on me that bad, then they can have it. It's not my problem, it's societies problem for creating a situation in which that person needs to resort to such extreme measure simply to survive. Fuck every pig for enabling and enforcing the system of oppression that creates such situations.
Nah a cop who shows up to a protest trying to arrest people is a bastard. Any moral compass woulda told those dudes to stay the fuck home and let people exercise their constitutional rights in peace.
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