Rosenblatt was fired in 2020 after texting “ha ha” in response to a picture sent to him by other officers, one of whom appeared to be administering a chokehold near a memorial for McClain.
Can't reform this
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Certainly not on the taxpayer dime.
We can and should, but through the prison system. I don't see why we can't help people become better citizens instead of better criminals if we're locking them up and paying for it anyway.
You’re right. I should have worded my response better. I meant if he is walking around free, he should be responsible for it, not the tax payer (unless that’s a tax-funded service that is available for everyone). If he’s incarcerated we not only have opportunity, we have a duty to try.
McClain was unarmed when he was stopped Aug. 24, 2019, by officers responding to a report of a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms. He was carrying a plastic bag with three cans of iced tea in his left hand and his phone in his right hand. He was listening to music on headphones and didn’t initially respond when officers called to him.
Another case of being killed for being black.
Aurora shooter went to the wrong building...
They all shot up the wrong spots. Nearly every one of them do. It's kind of wild.. you'd think it would be more balanced.
(No facts just casual talk)
It's almost like most mass shooters to date have been right wing fucks.
Hell, the Columbine kids were wannabe Nazis and had copies of Mein Kampf.
The Aurora shooter, on the other hand, one of the few cases where it was actually just a mental illness and not a cultlike belief in a twisted ideology.
"If YoU cAn TaLk YoU cAn BrEaThE" - pigs and bootlickers
Counterpoint: if he could breathe he wouldn't have suffocated to death.
"ThAtS oNlY HaPpEnEd LiKe OnCe AnD hE wAs PrObAbLy LyInG aNyWaY" - pigs and bootlickers
And my sister after I fell down the stairs
This one has been breaking my heart since it happened. Don't read the transcript or listen to the audio unless you want to be sad all day.
If there's no conviction here, I will lose any shred of faith that I might still have in our justice system.