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Cops 7: What Could Go Wrong?

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Walz:
It is time to rebuild. Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they’re charged to protect. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction.

As George Floyd’s family has said, he "would not want people to get hurt. He lived his life protecting people." Let’s come together to rebuild, remember, and seek justice for George Floyd.

As Governor, I will always defend the right to protest. It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change. That is why I am answering our local leaders’ request for Minnesota National Guard assistance to protect peaceful demonstrators, neighbors, and small businesses in Minnesota.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Walz:
It is time to rebuild. Rebuild the city, rebuild our justice system, and rebuild the relationship between law enforcement and those they’re charged to protect. George Floyd’s death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction.

As George Floyd’s family has said, he "would not want people to get hurt. He lived his life protecting people." Let’s come together to rebuild, remember, and seek justice for George Floyd.

As Governor, I will always defend the right to protest. It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change. That is why I am answering our local leaders’ request for Minnesota National Guard assistance to protect peaceful demonstrators, neighbors, and small businesses in Minnesota.
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Like I said he crushed it.
 
state of hockey said:
I don't think riot is good, just understandable. I'll remember what lit this powder keg and not let the opportunists distract me from the message being sent. Will this be harder I'd my house gets torched? Probably. But I hope I'd manage to do it.
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Protesting is understandable.
Rioting...vandalism and looting? Not so much.
 
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burd said:
Scroll down to the twitter piece titled "Before you call the cops."
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I'm 99% sure we all see different replies when we click on a Tweet. They're sorted by some algorithm tailored to you. If you have a few hundred (hell, I don't look past maybe half a dozen) replies, none of us will ever see them all.
 
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Kepler said:
"Them"?

Part of a riot is it's the response of the populace at large against the powers that subjugate them.

Unless you're one of the folks who likes the way things are, this "them" is us, or at least on behalf of us.

We all own the riot.
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Yes, THEM. **** THEM. THEM THEM THEM. Not once have I said I like the way things are and **** you for even implying it. I'm separating the rioters from the protesters and especially the reason they were taking place to begin with.

Perhaps your daughter's neighborhood can host next.
 
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Amy Klobuchar declined to prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death after previous conduct complaints
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Way to go Amy.

https://news.yahoo.com/amy-klobuchar-declined-prosecute-officer-183728902.html

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derick Chauvin saw at least 10 conduct complaints during his 19-year tenure before he was fired Tuesday, according to a database that documents complaints against police. In particular, he was involved in the shooting death of a man who had stabbed other people before attacking police, as well as some other undisclosed complaints. Klobuchar did not prosecute Chauvin for the first death, and he was later placed on leave when he and other officers shot and wounded a Native American man in 2011.

As The Washington Post noted in March, Klobuchar "declined to bring charges in more than two dozen cases in which people were killed in encounters with police" as Hennepin County attorney. Instead, she "aggressively prosecuted smaller offenses" that "have been criticized for their disproportionate effect on poor and minority communities," the Post continues. And as Klobuchar undergoes vetting to become a possible vice presidential candidate, that track record is being scrutinized and criticized once again.
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dxmnkd316 said:
I'm 99% sure we all see different replies when we click on a Tweet. They're sorted by some algorithm tailored to you. If you have a few hundred (hell, I don't look past maybe half a dozen) replies, none of us will ever see them all.
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Oh.
 
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solovsfett said:
Double their pay,
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I'm with a lot of the post, but not this part. We do not need to double the pay of cops. Cops are NOT underpaid, at least not in the sense of any other dedicated public servants who go about their work with a professional attitude of service. In South Bend the base pay for every cop who manages to make it 2 full years as a cop without getting fired is $60,000. After more time on the job or with minimal promotions it is much higher than that. Add in overtime, good benefits and a retirement that pays 75% of your final salary for life after 30 years of service and cops are better off financially than the majority of working Americans. South Bend also claims to lose experienced officers to other towns that pay even more. I was born there and lived for a good part of my life there. It is an inexpensive, pleasant community, and the average wage of a South Bend officer far exceeds the average wage of a resident of South Bend. If you doubled their salary, expect to do the same with the fire department, schools, and every other public employee.

If police officers did their jobs better, they'd get a lot more help and respect from the community, making their jobs more enjoyable and probably even a little safer (not that their jobs are nearly as dangerous as the myth making of the FOP makes them out to be, AND they have been getting safer every decade over the last 50 years in terms of on the job injury from violence). We need to deconstruct every notion of policing in our society. Making the job financially more attractive may play into that at some point, but right now I don't want people doing that kind of work because they might make $120,000 doing it in a cheap-to-live mid sized middle western city.
 
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JFC...Freeman is going to **** this up isn't he?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW: Minnesota prosecutor says video showing George Floyd's death is "terrible" but says there's "other evidence that does not support a criminal charge" <a href="https://t.co/X3hzxQJtfe">pic.twitter.com/X3hzxQJtfe</a></p>— BNO News (@BNONews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1266136952874696709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yeah there are protesters at Freeman’s Home in SW Mpls near lake harriett...so far peaceful
 
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