How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
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Caution in reporting is valuable, but when it’s mainly deployed to protect the inflicters of state violence, you have to ask if it’s really a principle at all.

“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?

  • Leon@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    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.