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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The police are violent thugs everywhere, not just Republican cities and states.

It's because they have almost complete immunity from being prosecuted for wrongdoing and also, well, they are incredibly well armed and often use their monopoly on violence to threaten blue politicians.

I grew up in a city where cops didn't like their own chief of police because he wanted to drug test the force regularly after several got caught doing drugs on the job. The chiefs own force stalked him, harassed him, made violent threats against him and his family, until he was ran out of town. The police union sued him and said drug testing them violated their rights. The police union won in court. Those drug tests never happened.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

That's kinda what I'm getting at. This isn't R vs D, and further perpetuating that is lending into the division of the country that the powers that be want.

This is class war, always has been. Police are the arm wielding power of the rich, used to push down the working class.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Police unions give unions a bad name. Fucking thugs.