Police And Their Apologists Have Already Lost The Argument by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-06-05 at 13:39:50 )

Police And Their Apologists Have Already Lost The Argument by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Social media has been flooded with an endless stream of footage of police brutality as Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the United States. As of this writing everyone is talking about a 75 year-old man who was knocked unconscious after being forcefully shoved for getting in a police officers way at a protest in Buffalo, New York, but it will soon be replaced by other headline-grabbing videos of physical assault by police officers.

Turns out all it took to publicly expose a pervasive epidemic of violent tendencies in the police force was for the public to begin protesting violent tendencies in the police force.

Wherever these videos emerge online you will inevitably see a deluge of cop apologia (which I decided just now I will be calling copologia) saying the footage is fake or the victim deserved it and the cop is just trying to get home to his family blah blah blah.

There is not enough gold in the earths crust to make the number of olympic medals these people deserve for all the mental gymnastics they are performing to excuse unprovoked, completely unnecessary acts of violence from public employees whose job is not even statistically all that dangerous.

Most of these copologists do not even know why they are falling all over themselves to try and justify police brutality. It is a conditioned response, like turning your head when someone calls your name. They do not think about it, it is just something they have been conditioned to do by decades of media and cultural indoctrination into an empire whose survival depends on the existence of a violent and militarized police force. They hear Pavlovs bell and start salivating, just as they have been programmed to.

The thing is, their creative energy is being spent entirely in vain. Police and their apologists have already lost the argument.

A police force which cannot respond to protests about police brutality without the internet being flooded with a steady stream of police brutality footage is a police force in sore need of drastic overhaul.

It has already been proven that that is in fact the case.

There is no taking it back.

There is no fixing it. It is done. The debate is officially over.

Huge, sweeping changes must immediately be made, and there is no valid reason for the protests to stop until that has occurred.

Cops in #Indianapolis grope a womans breasts while arresting her and then violently beat her when she resists.#BLUEFALL#BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloyd -MK-Ultra News June 5, 2020

These videos have made it clear that the institution of policing in the United States of America is completely sick from coast to coast, right down to its very culture.

The most obvious example I can point to is that watching just a few minutes of the footage of police brutality at these protests makes it undeniably apparent that a belief pervades police culture that it is okay to physically assault someone who has made you feel emotionally upset.

Over and over and over again we see police accosting civilians for saying impolite words to them or making rude gestures, or not demonstrating an adequate level of subservience.

Over and over and over again we see an attack on a cops ego treated as an attack on the cop himself.

This is absolutely ridiculous. These are public servants.

Imagine if teachers, mail carriers or DMV employees were routinely assaulting anyone who spoke impolitely to them.

Police should definitely be made to feel ashamed of having this attitude.

They should be mocked and laughed at for it widely and consistently.

It is not okay to assault someone who hurt your feewings, you f-cking infant.

You are a taxpayer-funded employee. You get to retire after 25 years.

Get the absolute f-ck over yourself, dipshit.

The fact that words pose no actual threat to you is something people are supposed to learn as children. There are nursery rhymes for it.

The fact that public servants feel entitled to respect and deference from complete strangers should have been trained out of them from day one and been a strict taboo throughout the entire culture.

But it was not. Because the entire institution is mentally ill. There is no saving this limb. Amputation is the only option.

Hi. I am a social worker. I work with adults with severe autism. I am TCI certified. My coworkers and I regularly have to subdue v strong and v aggressive individuals and we do so w no weapons & causing no respiratory distress or harm to the Person.

Police have no excuse.-He Who Tweets, MSW, MSSA, MNO June 3, 2020

Many have correctly pointed out that most of the jobs done by police today could be done much better by social workers, and that most of the remaining jobs are completely unnecessary and could be dispensed with entirely.

On the rare occasion that a squad of meatheads with batons is necessary they can always be called in like a SWAT team.

Ending the drug war, eliminating unhelpful laws and replacing the armed goon patrol with social workers would purge the United States of America of this gangrenous limb and begin a movement toward health.

Whatever changes are made, they need to be swift, and they need to be massive.

Anything less is completely unacceptable.

This has been resolved beyond any possible dispute.

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