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  1. 6 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Players are starting to use their platforms to be heard on topics affecting themselves and their communities. The mix of sports and CR is now the norm. Deal with it or get a new hobby where you don't have to hear what black kids think about their status in society.

    No, going after someone for a wearing a news network teeshirt is ridiculous. Take a break from white knighting, you might just like how it feels. 

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  2. Just now, UncleBuck said:

    I think my biggest "issue" (if you even want to call it that) with this whole thing is saying that they're going to hold the recruiting etc... hostage until all of it is changed.

    Like, that's the last thing Thomas and Co need right now. 

    Yeah, that’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. Give in to my demands or I’ll make our team shittier! 

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  3. 4 minutes ago, John Lawrence said:

    It isn’t hard to tell who is rioting.   It’s on tv.  Cletus isn’t out there in skinny jeans cracking people over the heads with skateboards. 

    I’m getting really tired of this disrespect. Us rednecks get no credit for being the OG’s of skinny jeans. 

  4. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Until one of those hypotheticals pulls you over.  And beats the fuck out of you.  Because you didn't respect their authoritah.

    A buncha hypotheticals just murdered a man in Minneapolis.  A hypothetical covered up for his partner stalking an ex (see bad teammate's post). A hypothetical escalated the Sandra Bland arrest.  A hypothetical pulled over my dad, beat the fuck out of him, and didn't even let him contact his family.  A hypothetical shot Walter Scott in the back in S. Carolina.  And a metric shitton of hypotheticals covered for the violent hypotheticals.

    Hypotheticals are dangerous as shit -- because they keep turning into actual bad cops.

    But I'm sure your family members are different.

    They are different, yes. Excuse me for wanting to avoid tautology, but we’ve been over this repeatedly. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    At least you were pulled over for actually speeding as opposed to a non-reason that led to your arrest for resisting arrest. I'd bet that shit doesn't happen to someone with a 100 club sticker on their car. Or someone who isn't black.

    Oh, of course it does. One time I got pulled over for a license plate light being out. When he asked me to get out and talk to him I pointed this out to him. It was hilarious. 

  6. 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    What would they have done for their partner?  If they showed up and found he was drunk and had wrecked his car?  If he started beating up an arrestee?  Would they treat him like any other criminal?

    If they would.....they are beyond exceptional.  

    Hypotheticals are fun and entertaining, but ultimately useless. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Big city cops will defend and hide illegal actions by their brother and sisters just as well as small town cops. Just ask Dennis Tuttle. Oh wait, you can't. Because HPD trumped up probable cause to get a no-knock warrant to murder him and his girlfriend in their sleep. And it turns out the narco squad had been doing this shit for the better part of a decade and they've had a number of their cases re-opened as a result.

    But wouldn't ya know it, the police chief and union chief backed them no questions asked and attacked anyone who dared question the sanctity of the badge and their authority.

    Sounds pretty fuckin familiar to your posting ethos in the thread.

    You think I’m the one on the offensive in this discussion. Sheeeit. Sounds like I missed out though, they sure didn’t get me out of that speeding ticket a couple years back. 

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  8. Just now, Chewbacca said:

    So you admit the thin blue line is alive and well and you acknowledge the detrimental effects it has on how police operate, but you simultaneously want to claim your friends and family are not impacted by it?  That just happens in all the other departments, right?

     

    There's some cognitive dissonance for you right there, folks.

    What in the hell are you babbling about? Saying there is an issue broadly is one thing, implying that my family members are involved is something very different. I feel like I’m playing cards with my sister’s kids here. 

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    And you're ignoring that your experiences have been extremely positive because you are part of their "tribe" because you are family

    Maybe in a small town that will fly, but having a cousin on the force in a larger city doesn’t mean shit, that I can promise you. 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Cops who will cover for the dirty cops, or look the other way while they do what they do, are just as guilty as those who perpetrate the bad acts.  The thin blue line is alive and well, and it is a cancer.

    Sure, and I get that. But trying to get me to acknowledge that my friends are family are dirty cops because, well they’re cops, is ridiculous. 

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    This is a lazy and shitty response in light of the ongoing and persistent police brutality in the US. You're choosing to ignore reality in favor of your rose-colored reality that cops (as an institution) give a flying fuck about the wellbeing of citizens and are uniformly "good". 

    One "bad cop" does a bad thing and is seen by a hundred "good cops". "Good cops" let it slide/cover for the "bad cop". You now have 101 bad cops.

    No, I’m stating my experiences, which have been extremely positive. I’m not going to acknowledge his warped reality just because he has PTSD, sorry. 

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  12. 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yes.  Clearly, all the cops who do bad things are also obviously bad people in their private lives, and you can see it coming a mile a way.

    OR.....ordinary men are capable of significant evil in a different context.  I'ma go with the literal stacks of history books that tell us this is the case.  The fact that they've treated you with kindness and decency means -- for the purposes of this subject matter -- absolutely nothing.  In FACT, because you are "under their protection," they probably treat you even better than normal human interactions go.  Step outside yourself. 

    Realize that every cop that does the shit we see is someone's dad, husband, whatever.

    Shit, realize that every time we read a story about shitty gangbanger X, who went out and shot two people over a $20 drug deal, has a mom who shows up on TV saying "he was a good kid."  And around her....he probably was.  Same kid.  Two different approaches to the world.  Just because he hugged his mom and helped her do the dishes doesn't mean he didn't murder those two people.

    The sooner you acknowledge the fact that your beloved family-member cops are almost certainly like all the rest of them: either dirty, or 100% willing to cover for the dirty ones, the sooner you'll start to see reality.

    That’s not a fact and I’m not acknowledging such nonsense. I’m sincerely not trying to be a dick, but I think your emotions are getting the best of you here. I’m rooting for you to get the counseling you need to tackle this issue, you definitely have a lot to sort through. 

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  13. 6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    That's because the same people can be two different ways, depending on the context and audience.

    Some of those guys were great to hunt with, made a great goose stew, looked out for me because they decided I was a good kid, that sort of stuff.  Those same people would drop an N bomb in the context of their job, and I don't doubt that they whooped up on some folks they thought got too mouthy.

    Plenty of Nazis were devoted parents, bounced kids on their knee and told sweet bedtime stories.  Realizing that those men you experienced as good and decent are also capable of great horrors is one of the shittiest of wakeup calls in life.

    I know these individuals pretty well, so I’m just going to disagree with you here. I’m sorry you’ve had such bad experiences, but that just hasn’t been the case with me. 

  14. 19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I'm not.  I've been acquaintances with cops -- have hunted with them etc. back in my younger days.  Heard 'em drop the N-bomb with no hesitation.  And you and I both know that every one of them will cover for a bad one doing bad shit right in front of them.  When you choose to be a pit of rot and decay, you reap what you sow.

    Interesting. We’ve had very different experiences. 

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