Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title

[SonofSouthie]

A federal judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit brought by four people who accused three Boston police officers of using excessive force against them while clearing crowds during a 2020 protest.

The lawsuit claims that officers Michael Burke, Edward Nolan, and Michael McManus violated the protesters’ civil rights when they struck them with their batons, and ran into one man — a veteran with disabilities — with a police bike.

The incidents happened on May 31, 2020, when the protesters were headed home from a march at the Boston Common protesting the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis one week earlier. None of the protesters committed a crime or were arrested during the protest and were all acting peacefully when they were approached by the officers, according to the lawsuit. Their allegations are bolstered by police body camera footage that was posted online and included in the civil complaint.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...eed/ar-AAYVwam

[The Sicatoka]

Who thought this was a good idea?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/foxlexi...seat-belt/amp/

One of the local PD's gave away Dairy Queen vouchers for kids "caught" wearing bike helmets.

[MissThundercat]

Who thought this was a good idea?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/foxlexi...seat-belt/amp/

[Kepler]

Big man, punching a woman in the face. This is who they are, people. Fascists who will use violence to get whatever it is they want.

Conservatives are always cowards. It's the essence of their worldview. Terrified of change. Terrified of those who are different. Terrified of competing on an even playing field. Terrified of losing their privileges.

[WeAreNDHockey]

Do you want to die in a hail of gunfire?

No, I don't. But anymore I believe we have to be willing to do whatever it takes to take the country back. This war has begun.

In looking at those videos, the protesters so completely outnumbered the cops and would have been able to gain the upper hand, especially when you see it often takes 2 or 3 cops to drag one protester away. People show up at the protests completely unprepared and unwilling to use force, and the cops KNOW it. They count on it. In fact the take glee in it. We need to make sure the cops (and the entirety of our fascist state) begin to see they WON'T necessarily be safe. Meatheads understand one thing. I say we feed it to them and watch them choke on it.

Kep and other's keep saying we outnumber them, but that hasn't prevented our country from sinking deeper and deeper into authoritarianism and fascism. History has shown time and again the oppressors are not going to just stop oppressing. We have to stop them using every means necessary. If that means putting myself in harm's way, I absolutely will.

[rufus]

Off duty cop and GQP candidate for RI state Senate drops out of race after video'd punching his female Democrat opponent at an abortion protest rally.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...1ab9a7448505b1

Big man, punching a woman in the face. This is who they are, people. Fascists who will use violence to get whatever it is they want.

[rufus]

You do that, and you just play into their narrative of the violent, intolerant Left. And the crackdowns and violence increase.

The only way to get it to stop is for it to be ever more evident that it is the cops themselves, and not the protestors, who are the initiators of the violence. How you do that, and how long it takes, I don't really have answers for. But I think most people who aren't already hard Right are beginning to see that, at least a little bit. But by becoming the violent mob yourself, you lose them for good as they "Back the Blue"

[dxmnkd316]

Isn't it time for people to put their phones down and start kicking the living 5hit out of these cops. Yeah, a few need to be recording so we have a record of the cops initiating the violence but come on. We need to start fighting back, and in real time.

I was sickened by what I was seeing in the summer of 2020 as police in city after city were the instigators in most of the violence but felt someone with my attitude participating directly in the protests would do more harm than good. I was genuinely heartened when one group of protesters did surround a cop in Chicago and kick the crap out of him. I clearly need to rethink my reasoning.

What can the right do that will finally push enough people to realize just how bad it is going to get? **** the right. It understands one thing and one thing only. Violence. Do we need to wait for when they are in power again and expand the supreme court to 15 seats and add 6 more versions of Coney-Barrett and Thomas? So protest, peacefully yes, but when the brownshirts go too far, why do we let them make it home in one piece?

Do you want to die in a hail of gunfire?

[rufus]

Especially ones on AARP.

Takes a real man to fight unarmed protestors...maybe protest near schools we know they won't take action there.

Oh, they will. As long as you're peaceful, and not shooting the place up, they'll hammer you with pepper spray and pellets all day long. Maybe even batter you with their riot shields.

[WeAreNDHockey]

Cops love manhandling peaceful protestors

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/s...K1-Uua5kjZ0kqQ

Isn't it time for people to put their phones down and start kicking the living 5hit out of these cops. Yeah, a few need to be recording so we have a record of the cops initiating the violence but come on. We need to start fighting back, and in real time.

I was sickened by what I was seeing in the summer of 2020 as police in city after city were the instigators in most of the violence but felt someone with my attitude participating directly in the protests would do more harm than good. I was genuinely heartened when one group of protesters did surround a cop in Chicago and kick the crap out of him. I clearly need to rethink my reasoning.

What can the right do that will finally push enough people to realize just how bad it is going to get? **** the right. It understands one thing and one thing only. Violence. Do we need to wait for when they are in power again and expand the supreme court to 15 seats and add 6 more versions of Coney-Barrett and Thomas? So protest, peacefully yes, but when the brownshirts go too far, why do we let them make it home in one piece?

[Handyman]

Especially ones on AARP.

Takes a real man to fight unarmed protestors...maybe protest near schools we know they won't take action there.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Cops love manhandling peaceful protestors

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/s...K1-Uua5kjZ0kqQ

[aparch]

The racists aren't happy when the blacks open carry using the same laws as everyone else.

https://twitter.com/iamalmostlegend/...36947070291968

[Jimjamesak]

No. Don't give them the world. The world is ours.

Living in denial is no way to live. The first step to taking care of a problem is to realize how big the problem is.

[Kepler]

Fixed

No. Don't give them the world. The world is ours.