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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

I love how yhe headline makes it sound like trump kmows how to operate a computer. Cause my first thought was, did he do it intentionally. Lol

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Officially making all cops bad guys until they have the footage to prove otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

👨‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

👨‍🚀🔫👮

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Here, you forgot this 🌎

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

I think we all forgot about it. I mean, look at the place. It's a mess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean... at this point, do we really want it? Lol

[–] [email protected] 100 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

He really is like a bad guy in a comic book movie. Freeing criminals, recruiting corrupt police, spreading fear and hatred. The beginning of a movie where the place is in criminal chaos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Way worse. If I wrote Trump into a fictional work, I'd be roasted by literature critics for having a villain with no redeeming qualities, who's just evil for evil sake, with many of his henchmen are just enjoying the pain of others (which means I've written Hollywood Psychopaths, which is also "ableism").

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

We have 7 Lex Luthors and not one Superman

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

Hopefully we get to see the end of the movie.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

He's doing more damage than most villains have ever done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A movie without a good guy to come to the rescue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Basically a foreign film.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also if bird flu blows up he'll again have the opportunity to not save millions from dying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm looking forward to having almost no reliable information on it, as well. Thanks to assholes like brainwormz and Bronzo the Clown supposedly being the people in charge of running this.

Also, lots and lots of very stupid redcaps saying very stupid things like: "oh, no, no, they died WITH bird flu, not FROM bird flu, YOU GUYZZZZ!" and "I'm working out, eating right and getting my sunshine - also, I'm not an old, so it won't affect ME!"

Fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalism is criminal chaos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is straight corruption, not capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fascism is a product of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fascism springs from many sources.

Focus on the real enemy here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Fascism springs from many sources.

And in this case, capitalism is a part of it.

Focus on the real enemy here.

I can focus on more than one thing. Capitalism is one of those things, on a very long list.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Won't stop states and private organizations from making this info public, you fat bitch.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Removing authority complicates trust. I can definitely imagine a group in West Virginia or wherever giving themselves an overly patriotic name and claiming there have been next to no instances of police violence because they nitpick what should be counted. They already started doing this with school shootings.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

You're not wrong, but also missing the point. Here's a breakdown: https://project.wnyc.org/disciplinary-records/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If you read the article, it says this is for federal law enforcement roles. States typically do not have that information since these people don’t work for the state.

Also, many of these internal affairs investigations do not hit the press, which makes a private effort pretty difficult to pull off. Your net will have a lot of big holes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

Since you must know a lot about this subject from your comment, you must also then know that any complaints resulting from federal law enforcement officer actions must also be filed and reported with the local jurisdiction where the complaint originated. Also a federal law.

This is under the purview of the DOJ at the federal level, but every state has their own codified rules on making this public. The 12 largest states have open reporting, with mostly southern states making this confidential.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

Because of course he did...

Wouldn't want to be holding LEO's to account for any violations of civil rights or any of that soy-boy kind of thing, right?

"When you're putting them in the car, maybe remove the hand"... yeah?

Yet another reminder, the cruelty is the point.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

We really need a public database of cops along with links to articles of their actions. Similar to the website created to track J6 rioters and their sentences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think we already have this iirc. Contact your local Cop Watch.

Edit: was I really just thinking of BlueLeaks? I swear there was a site with mugshots of police and records of complaints against them https://ddosecrets.com/article/blueleaks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Some will get to have pages on both sites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I hope Canada builds a wall to keep muricans out!