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This is not a case of a few bad apples.

75 year old man thrown to the floor for no reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4f4dXXbfEg

Two of the officers responsible were suspended. In response, the /ENTIRE DEPARTMENT/ resigned: https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/buffalo-emergency-response-tea...

American police need to be disarmed and fired. The idea of a professional police force (especially an /armed/ police force) makes about as much sense as a professional jury service.

>>barney+(OP)
How do you provide security and protection in absence of police?

>>barney+(OP)
I think it's a case of several bad departments/cities/states. The response from the San Francisco PD (for example) was very different from Seattle. Policing is very different from state to state, and police cultures are very different across departments. Treating all police in the US as a single entity doesn't make much sense.

>>barney+(OP)
You sure about all of that?

Those 50 some police did not resign from being police. They resigned from emergency response duties because they were shown that their dept will not support them.

There is also more to that “poor 75yo man” story. He is a professional agitator with a now-deleted social media history of hating the police, despite this hatred he showed up hours early before police did with a police motorcycle helmet he wanted to return because it was the right thing to do, this stated by a Buffalo/NPR reporter who he happened to be there with, while BLM activists knew/recognized him as an agitator and told him to go home, asking him why he was there and replied a few times “just for fun”, then in the full video you can see he is using he is using his phone to scan over police radios (supposedly to skim Bluetooth advertising addresses and RSSI correlation, to get someone information to listen in on private band police traffic), all of this while not wearing a mask up until the interaction with police when suddenly he has “two” masks, one which appears mouth guard of some sorts with a mask over that.

But whatever... it’s a lot easier to just say the police beat this guy (pushed him back from an advancing police line)

https://twitter.com/ConservRachel/status/1268998560412033025...

https://twitter.com/PimpG18/status/1269328910988255232/photo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CubkyIzygQ

https://twitter.com/Sep112001/status/1269696080230350849/pho...