This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Another Chapter of Why All Cops Are Bad

[Jarhyn]

All over the country, we have sparse examples of cops with empathy: who kneel with protestors in accepting that cops need to stop fucking murdering black people.

And of course what is the right wing response? To punish them for their empathy.

Officer who knelt with George Floyd protesters accused of insubordination a day later

A San Francisco police officer took a knee with George Floyd protesters during a massive demonstration in the Mission District. The next day, his supervisors sent him home early for insubordination.

Officer Rubin Rhodes, a five-year veteran assigned to Mission Station, was the first of at least two officers to kneel outside the station Wednesday in a show of support for the crowd protesting police brutality.

The following morning, Rhodes was accused of being insubordinate after coming to work with his earrings on in an alleged violation of department policy, which prohibits male officers from wearing earrings on-duty.

And then there is THIS very fine person who insists that the law does not take a knee.

All cops are bad when good cops are the ones punished rather than those firing CS gas at protestors' heads.

 

[Patooka]

Might as well add this to the pile

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Imagine if the news revealed airline companies are forcing their pilots to fly with less than 3 hours sleep, or insurance companies are scamming pensioners. Or a large supermarket chain is selling out of date food. These industries would immediately go into damage control and put their best face forward in the public eye.

This is how US police act when they know people are watching how they act. But a few bad apples, right?

 

[Jarhyn]

And then there was that time when a black female officer in buffalo got fired for stopping another officer from using a chokehold.

 

[Worldtraveller]

Over on TR, we have a police abuse sticky thread. It's over 3000 posts long now.