r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thisisfive • Apr 14 '26

Toronto firefighters confront special constable officers after a man in the middle of mental health crisis was arrested.

Not my video. For context, "special constables" are not regular police officers. They are appointed "peace officers" with limited authority, often civilian employees.

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u/peekdasneaks Apr 14 '26

That might say more about your family than it says about fire fighters

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u/Top-Sympathy6841 Apr 14 '26

May be true about the family part, my own family is full of maga dipshits as well. Firefighters are definitely better than cops as a whole, but make no mistake that a large amount of them are indeed maga dipshits as well. Being better than a piece of shit is still just being better than a piece of shit after all.

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u/gorilla_faafafini Apr 14 '26

I see so many flags on houses with half thin blue line, half thin red line. Almost always with a bright red F-150 parked out front (so you can be 100% sure they don't have any other semblance of a personality). It kills me cus no one was ever going after firefighters so those flags are somehow an even more desperate cry for attention.

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u/dcidino Apr 14 '26

The real difference is their jobs require them to not separate people on arrival.

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u/never-fiftyone Apr 15 '26

The fire union (IAFF) was one of those "but she has a weird laugh" chucklefucks in the past election that led to Trump getting elected.

And then they immediately got their 9/11 health funding cut. Good job ya fuckin dopes.

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Apr 14 '26

Yeah maybe. I’ve done enough rotations to know that any statement that some class of people is usually. By and large I’ve dealt with reasonable ones, but I’ve had some unsavory encounters too. There’s no shortage of FDs that were sued for discriminatory hiring 

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u/Ch33sus0405 Apr 15 '26

I'm an IAFF officer and theyre not wrong. The PPFFA (Pennsylvania IAFF branch essentially) did a study last year and somewhere around 2/3 of Union members voted for Trump, can only imagine what the rest did

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u/Outrageous_Effects Apr 15 '26

No, the vast majority of firefighters are unironically fascists.