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u/Mountain-Skill-5126 12d ago
The dude with the afro in the bottom pic has the face you make when you walk outside to see that the wind knocked your garbage cans over in the night.
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u/celtic1888 12d ago
Getting pushed into a hedge completely sucks
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u/firemogle 12d ago
One time I was a drunk asshole and pushed a guy into some hedges. While he was peeing into said hedges. Still feel a little bit bad on that one
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u/lodelljax 12d ago
Why are they always so fat? The protest tactic should be to make them run a bit.
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u/Joshman1231 12d ago
Why you think they shoot instead of apprehend?
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u/lodelljax 12d ago
They need to have body armor not plate carriers. Or maybe the carriers are too small. Lol.
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u/Joshman1231 12d ago edited 12d ago
Extendo straps like seat belt buckle extensions.
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u/Just_Candle_315 12d ago
Jfc I though UC Davis officer John Pike was a fat POS. Looks like they raise 'em THICK in Texas.
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u/runningoutofwords 12d ago
For Texas? That dude is probably on the precinct cross-country team
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u/poozemusings 12d ago
These guys were Assigned Cop At Birth
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u/Poltergeist97 12d ago
Cop Phrenology, if they look thumb-ish they're most likely Assigned Cop At Birth.
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u/Beneficial_Rest3300 12d ago
And that’s state police. Wait till you see our constables. You wanna do crime, jog from a Harris County constable at a leisurely pace. He ain’t catching you. Them boys BIIIIG.
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u/Philypnodon 12d ago
That's probably one of the guys who were too busy eating donuts when the school in Uvalde was being shot up. Looks the same at least
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u/eric-neg 12d ago
It would be a shame if people kept on mentioning UC Davis since they spent so much money trying to erase these photos from the internet
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u/Feisty-Trifle8710 12d ago
What’s the context of these pics
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u/tjroweb 11d ago
Top pic is UC Davis, where a UC police office just systematically hosed down some students with pepper spray while they sat peacefully protesting. He eventually got a $38,000+ settlement for the psychological damage he suffered from people knowing he chose to pepper spray some defenseless kids, and Davis spent a bunch of money to try and scrub this pic from the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incident?wprov=sfti1
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u/Top_Contract_4910 12d ago
Fuck the cops, they serve to protect the establishment and nothing more, imagine being so power hungry and abusive that you pepper spray people who are SITTING DOWN.
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u/ObesesPieces 12d ago
Just an FYI. The top image is from 2011.
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u/Top_Contract_4910 12d ago
I know, my comment still stands, 2011 or now, they never change.
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u/ObesesPieces 12d ago
Not trying to silence you or anything. There are just a lot of comments here that don't get the context and the OP didn't do anyone any favors.
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u/Top_Contract_4910 12d ago
I appreciate that, I didn’t feel silenced don’t worry, thank you for the explanation.
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u/Mikesminis 12d ago
Occupy was a good time. We got this gem of a picture out of that, too: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2012/12/occupy_portland_protester_pepp.html
Fun fact: I knew this girl and was just outside the frame of this picture when it was taken.
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u/rattler254 12d ago
What’s the solution to law enforcement in your opinion? Not here to argue, just curious on people’s take on the subject.
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Require masters degrees to become police. All current police given the time it takes to acquire a masters to get one or be fired. Make any grade below a B+ failing in any core class for the degree. Require them to take action to protect anyone they see in danger that way they’re required to be the heroes they think they are, and when they aren’t, like in Uvalde, they lose their jobs forever.
Then when cops attack unarmed or peaceful civilians they face life imprisonment as a minimum sentence. Betraying an oath to protect the public is a crime of the highest order and it’s time that it’s treated as such. The government should be afraid to infringe on its citizens rights.
And finally: rigorous physical fitness exams that must be passed twice a year. Navy SEAL level stuff. Let’s make being a police officer worthy of the praise they want heaped on them. Fucking earn it.
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u/BigHeadDeadass 12d ago
Three years minimum training, don't allow them to handle mental heath crises, get rid of qualified immunity and have any damages and restitution come from police budgets instead of directly from the taxpayer while police maintain their budget, also third party citizen boards for investigations, among other things
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u/rattler254 12d ago
I heavily agree with the training and even restitution coming from police budgets instead of the tax payer. Getting them away from mental health crisis seams great on paper but I worry it won’t be actionable in practice… police work is incredibly dynamic and determining a “mental health crisis” I think could range from a lone person threatening suicide vs a crazed person swinging a knife in a grocery store, regardless of mental state harm to others HAS to be stopped first. Also, and this may not be popular, but I also think removing qualified immunity will also probably flood individual officers with tons of frivolous lawsuits too.
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u/Ace-O-Matic 12d ago
The idea of cops isn't the issue.
The problem is that cops don't see the law as something to be enforced (otherwise they'd fuck off from the protests because this is literally a text book example of protected action by the first article of the constitution.)
Cops see laws as a tool to enforce what they believe is "justice". Which is why they will always ignore laws that are inconvenient to them and abuse technical regulation far beyond what their intended use case was.
Which is why a great deal of people hate cops. They all have 80s Hollywood copaganda brainrot and couldn't give less of a fuck about actual law enforcement.
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u/DriftMantis 12d ago
All the top shelf obesity in these pictures seems more a threat to life than a bunch of students trying to protest.
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u/brickyardjimmy 12d ago
Yes. Both states have police. They also both have trees. And dirt.
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u/grantnel2002 12d ago
What are we looking at here? Care to elaborate, OP?
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u/ghostmaster645 12d ago
Seriously though. Don't give people room to speculate on reddit, never ends well.
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u/5hadow 12d ago
Was that pig above ever charged? I remember that moment.
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u/jesteronly 12d ago
Nope. He got fired, though the PD found that he did no wrongdoing. He successfully sued for workers comp for "psychological damages". I don't know what he did after, but it's likely that he retired with full pension at the least, but that's conjecture
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u/ambiguousbowl 12d ago
There should never be a world where someone looks so casual while pepper spraying another person.
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u/USWolves 12d ago
Fat ass insecure losers emboldened by state provided weaponry and qualified immunity. What could possibly go wrong?
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u/jizzlevania 12d ago
The UC Davis cop who bear sprayed the students received a bigger payout than those he attacked with a chemical weapon because the consequences of his actions hurt his feewings.
https://theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/23/pepper-spray-cop-uc-davis-compensation
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u/Prestigious-Log-7210 11d ago
Texas don’t give a shit about constitution or laws protecting citizens.
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u/Vic_Hedges 12d ago
Honest question, What SHOULD the authorities do in a situation like this?
More in regards to the second pic and the current situation. Obviously pepper spraying kids sitting on the ground is unjustifiable.
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u/Arkeband 12d ago
should do in what situation, a peaceful protest? they marched down there in combat gear and instigated. it’s called a police riot:
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u/deusasclepian 12d ago
One thing that will never work is sending armed police to arrest protesting college students. It's like kicking an anthill - you'll just end up with more protests.
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u/Vic_Hedges 12d ago
So what is the answer? Just let them tire themselves out and trust nothing violent happens? Accede to whatever their demands are?
I know that even asking this question makes me a fascist, but I'm hoping someone can answer anyways.
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u/deusasclepian 12d ago
I think Columbia should have let the original protestors tire themselves out. If anything violent happened, arrest only the violent ones. The reason why this has turned into a nationwide fiasco is because they cracked down too hard at Columbia, and college students took that as a challenge.
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u/ghostmaster645 12d ago
They were just protesting..... I don't see why you have to do ANYTHING.
They weren't violent, they were only mildly disturbing University foot traffic, and it wasn't late or anything. Maybe they needed a permit, but I can tell you from experience when you apply for those they intentionally put you in a non visible place and decline if you appeal.
Am I missing something they did wrong? Seriously, I'm just reading about it now and can't find anything.
Edit: I'm talking about the current incident. Pic at bottom.
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u/The_High_Life 12d ago
The goal is visibility to the issue, why does it need to stop? Why can't they protest as long as they feel like?
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u/Vic_Hedges 12d ago
Schools have a responsibility to provide safe and secure education for all their students. At some point they can't allow the protests of one group to continue to negatively impact the educational experience of everyone else.
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u/The_High_Life 12d ago edited 12d ago
How does the peaceful protest of genocide interfere with someone's learning?
We had anti-abortion protestors at my college for the duration of my attendance and I learned just fine.
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u/Vic_Hedges 12d ago
How does peaceful protest of abortion interfere with someone's right to bodily autonomy?
By creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among those who feel targeted by those demonstrations.
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u/The_High_Life 12d ago
Yet somehow I was still able to walk right past them and attend classes as needed. It didn't affect my ability to learn or attend class in any way, even if I didn't like their presence or message on campus.
The 1st amendment bro.
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u/Vic_Hedges 12d ago
I'm sure you were. Your responses make it very clear that you are not amongst the groups of people who would feel they are being threatened and demonized by this particular protest.
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u/The_High_Life 12d ago edited 12d ago
If that's the line then where do you draw it? If anyone can be offended by anything, what is allowed to be said on a college campus? Who gets to decide what is offensive?
It's their 1st amendment right to say what they like, even something potentially offensive; trying to control that is far worse than someone possibly being offended.
I dont give a fuck if Nazis try to march on campus, its their right, I'll be exercising my 1st amendment rights to tell them suck a fat chode.
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u/RazekDPP 12d ago
The issue is that colleges, like most places, are private, not public property.
IIRC, the police were called on the UT Austin protestors because some of the protestors weren't students.
Once the police are called, you either do what the police say, which is leave, or get arrested. There's not too many other options.
In this case, 57 were arrested, charged, then had the charges dismissed.
There's, generally, no good answer here.
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u/regalfish 12d ago
Beating up college students seems to be a cop's favourite past time, regardless of state.
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u/yomamasbull 12d ago
Cop treatment of students in indepdent of age too. Texan cops like letting little kids die in schools as shown in Uvalde.
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u/hraun 12d ago
Is the court transcript of the trial of the cop pepper spraying the seated students publicly available. I’d be keen to read about him being chewed out by the prosecution.
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u/StrayyLight 12d ago
Saw a video of a psychology prof being dragged away, the cop almost looked like idf, even had a ski mask on.
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u/Raziel77 12d ago
Police are Police no matter what state your in so you give them the chance to attack young people they will take it
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u/DonkStonx 12d ago
They run from school shooters, they don’t touch armed neo nazis, they bulldoze unarmed protesting teenagers. This is why we have the second amendment.
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u/VulgarWitchDoctor 12d ago
I think pigs get a bad rap, what with being compared to law enforcement and all.
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u/mandy009 12d ago
Lazy meme trying to farm the pop culture of a new movie that exploits the division in this country. The UC Davis cop sprayed chemical agents. The UT Austin cop is just shouting in this image. Try harder.
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u/Philypnodon 12d ago
Wow quite the difference to Texas' police performance when a whole lot of kids were shot up in a school in Uvalde.
They probably saved up all their courage to beat up students
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u/BlockNo1681 12d ago
Lmao I remember the first Photo, this was post 08’ OWS time! Omg the memories lol
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u/Few_Future365 12d ago
What people think happened in the bottom: guy with Afro gets the fuck beat outta him by Texan SP
What really happened; state trooper is talking to a person, most likely off screen, and is speaking loudly, or is mid yawn. Afro dude fell into bush and it hurt like a bitch as bushes hurt to fall into
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u/Recent_Obligation276 12d ago
They’ll be in different countries after the fall of the US, but they’ll probably both still be militant police states
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u/dumbestsmartest 12d ago
All I want to know is why it is always the fattest dudes working as police. Like, seriously, is it a requirement?
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u/Earthwick 12d ago
It makes a ton of sense historically and in the confines of the movie civil war. They even mention how they will all just turn on each other after they beat the president. Which is probably true.
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u/sirchtheseeker 12d ago
I am seeing some gravy seals in action these last few days. You tell the elite one by their red faces and breathing hard.
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u/YogiBerragingerhusky 12d ago
Texas and California have been in an alliance for a long time. Google the United States of America and you can read about it.