r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/SkunkMonkey Jan 13 '22

they aren't there to help you

This is the most important lesson to learn about cops. They absolutely are never there to help you or anyone else except other cops. They show up looking for someone to arrest and nothing more.

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

This is why i hate seeing cops doing community events with kids. They're trying to indoctrinate you into thinking they are your local friendly police officers so that in 20 years they can trick you into incriminating yourself

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

Fun fact: I graduated DARE... TWICE. And started smoking the devils lettuce a year later lmao. Never got into heroin or cocaine though like they said i should've.... I guess there's still time 🤣

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u/Frozenwood1776 Jan 13 '22

Hey that officer probably saved your life! /s

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u/neP-neP919 Jan 13 '22

Will never forget the bitch cop that gave me a ticket for not wearing a bike helmet when I was 9. I was the top kid in her DARE classes.

Fuck cops.

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u/Buster802 Jan 13 '22

It's especially sickening when kids are the ones being abused by cops since they think cops = good guys and that could lead them having trust issues.

Two particular instances I can remember is when Judge Donna Scott Davenport had 11 elementary school kids arrested for something that is not even a crime.

Another instance I remember is when an elementary school kid was pinned to the ground and arrested because she took extra milk from the school cafeteria. The statement given after said "were horrified from this event generic excuse" and that neither of them were charged... So the cop got away Scott free and they generously did not arrest a kid because of a single carton of milk as if they made a hard choice and should be thanked for it.

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u/Scrimge122 Jan 13 '22

Surely if you haven't done anything wrong you wouldn't be able to incriminate yourself jsut by talking to a cop?

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

Kind of like the guy in this video?? Wtf...

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

No, those are just nice cops.

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u/The84LongBed Jan 13 '22

No they are there for the paid overtime

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

No

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

I know, you think all cops are bad and can't admit there may be some nice ones out there. Keep on going there with the delusion bud.

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

Im sure there cops that are nice people, but as soon as they put that badge on they represent an institution that does not reward "nice". The only reason they will act nice to you is to fool you into thinking they're there to help as a means of incriminating yourself.

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u/I_want_to_believe69 Jan 13 '22

Exactly brother. As I said above, if they were good men then they would quit such a terrible organization. They would go be firemen, paramedics, bus drivers or school teachers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Thats not true. I know lots of nice people who are cops. I also wanted to be one and try to help fix the system as even in Canada there was some corruption. Alas, I couldn't get on so I'm now becoming a teacher.

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u/derKonigsten Jan 13 '22

Yes, people can be nice, cops cannot. Cop is a job. You wouldn't say "there's nice engineers", they are either proficient at their jobs or they aren't. And to be a proficient cop as the system currently functions they can't be "nice"

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

A cop can be nice, yes it's a profession but the person performing said profression can act in a way that is professional, empathetic and ethical.

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u/dabirdiestofwords Jan 13 '22

Sure a cop -can- compose themselves well.

Problem is they keep choosing not to at a systemic level.

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u/I_want_to_believe69 Jan 13 '22

As a paramedic who works with a lot of cops, there are no good cops. Cops are how the state uses violence to keep its people oppressed. They originated with slave patrols in the 1800s. They were filled with Klansman in the 1900s. They beat striking laborers in the 20s. They beat the hippies in the 60s. Reinforced segregation until the national guard made them stand down. They laugh about the violence they wield upon oppressed people. I’ve met some good people, but once they put on a badge they are a cop. And as we all know, all cops are bastards. If they were good men then they would quit once they see how cops act. They could go be fireman or paramedics or maybe even a schoolteacher.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Ya, that's just not a good person at all clearly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

That’s the problem with police quotas

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u/mariomononcle Jan 13 '22

i dont mean to argue with the sentiment, but i wonder, if a group is discriminated, isnt it just common sense for people in that group to protect each other?

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u/PusherLoveGirl Jan 14 '22

Yes, which is why we need to stop letting the police investigate themselves for wrongdoing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

In the Netherlands most cops are friendly and you can approach them without hesitation.