“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?
Even without hearing or knowing the race of the individuals, this reeks of pure racism. What’s most bullshit is you just know the cop will, effectively, get a slap on the wrist at most and only because it made the news. More and more I feel the drums of revolution sounding in the deep…better believe I’ll be heading that call.
This kind of story is what radicalised me on privacy matters, too.
Was a man here in Sweden who got assaulted by masked police, in his home at night. Yahoo had given emails to a private company which trawled through the data for possible CSAM. They’d flagged some of the images and videos of the man in question and his boyfriend doing stuff.
Instead of approaching these people, being like “hey we got a report from X place about a thing and we’d like to talk it”, these people immediately go for inflicting physical harm. This is precisely why people say that all cops are bastards.
Naturally the masked cops who assaulted this man never faced any repercussions. The investigation was dropped because they were masked, and thus it’d be “unfair punishment to those who were innocent.” As if assaulting an innocent man isn’t somehow unfair.
Obviously, neither the man, or his boyfriend were white.
There’s a rot in the building blocks of society. When a structure is rotten, you tear it down and build something new.
There was a case in switzerland where cops straight up beat a black man to death. They were aquitted of all charges
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/court-acquits-swiss-police-of-death-of-nigerian-man/48612552
If something like the purge happened in real life, cops would do most of the killing.
I actually kind of like to think that what would really happen is the purge would target those motherfuckers just straight up. Every pig gets tracked down and fucking dealt with before the red hour is over.
Noooo man…not Sweden 😦 Like…on one hand, it’s oddly comforting to know that it’s not just US cops that are absolutely racist bastards but on the other hand it’s just another nail in the coffin that holds my hope for humanity. Ugh.
There are ways to solve conflicts without state violence.
The cops are just the runaway slave patrol 2.0
It’s never been about “protecting the public” unless that public consists of old rich white people and/or land/people owners. Always been a class war. Always will be a class war.
Cops are run away slave patrol 1.0
That is why police forces were formed in the first place. The job hasn’t changed