Tom Pitt
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(Just FYI, I respect and honor law enforcement. If I say anything derogatory to law enforcement in this thread, it is only directed at the police officers that abuse their power and deviate from protecting and serving.. i.e the ones that are incompetent and hurt and/or oppress innocent people.)
Today Rudy retweeted a tweet of an unhinged douche bag police officer abusing his power and arresting and basically assaulting a nurse for upholding the law and doing her job.
here is a vid if you have not seen it yet
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/903606740817764352
The cop's mental state is a big red flag. Basically, he is a weak minded human being and his mindset appears to be he will abuse his power and it is his right to abuse his power. He does not stand to reason the situation out from a rationale standpoint, but instead uses intimidation, brute force, and cowardice to attain results. He's a loose cannon. A blemish to the reputation of good cops.
It is despicable, reprehensible, without honor. He has capitulated the will to protect and serve and in it's place what remains is a crude imitation of law enforcement. And in this moment, this man thinks he is bigger than the law. Bigger than the innocent lives around him (His ego is bigger than Gordon Hayward's... Sorry Gordon, you deserve a jab back). You get a very strong impression this man cares for nobody but himself. Db personified tbtfh.
So I have a few questions I was hoping someone in the know could answer.
Any Jazzfanz posters who are cops or have been cops, feel especially free to chime in because your understanding is likely to the most illuminating.
1- In this particular situation, It was against the law to take blood from the unconscious patient. That being said, why wouldn't this police offer be charged with intent to commit a crime? Is he above the law? Are all police officers, to some degree, above the law while on the job? It would seem so to me.
2- When a cop is a head case, and does something dumb like this, why don't other officers intervene? I mean, I can understand if it's a situation where a safety issue could be created. But In a situation like this, they are at a hospital and the nurse poses no threat to police officer. The Cop himself was the perpetrator of a crime. I mean, the other cops had to be thinking "omg this dude is a freaking mormon and is totally arresting a nurse who is upholding the law." Not to mention it's not like it's just the nurse. The cop is being told this by the nurse's supervisor as well.
3-How can people be expected to feel safe when a dude like this still has a job? Like basically, I just feel like the police department is conceding that, as long as they don't murder someone and thus create a PR nightmare, bad cops will keep their jobs and we just have to deal with it. If they unlawfully arrest us, assault us, commit injustice against us, even when we are upholding the law, it just sucks to be us and thats that. Why is it that when cops abuse their power and authority, they are not held to the same standards as normal citizens? They are not arrested, but instead often reassigned or suspended with pay.
Discuss
(Just FYI, I respect and honor law enforcement. If I say anything derogatory to law enforcement in this thread, it is only directed at the police officers that abuse their power and deviate from protecting and serving.. i.e the ones that are incompetent and hurt and/or oppress innocent people.)
Today Rudy retweeted a tweet of an unhinged douche bag police officer abusing his power and arresting and basically assaulting a nurse for upholding the law and doing her job.
here is a vid if you have not seen it yet
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/903606740817764352
The cop's mental state is a big red flag. Basically, he is a weak minded human being and his mindset appears to be he will abuse his power and it is his right to abuse his power. He does not stand to reason the situation out from a rationale standpoint, but instead uses intimidation, brute force, and cowardice to attain results. He's a loose cannon. A blemish to the reputation of good cops.
It is despicable, reprehensible, without honor. He has capitulated the will to protect and serve and in it's place what remains is a crude imitation of law enforcement. And in this moment, this man thinks he is bigger than the law. Bigger than the innocent lives around him (His ego is bigger than Gordon Hayward's... Sorry Gordon, you deserve a jab back). You get a very strong impression this man cares for nobody but himself. Db personified tbtfh.
So I have a few questions I was hoping someone in the know could answer.
Any Jazzfanz posters who are cops or have been cops, feel especially free to chime in because your understanding is likely to the most illuminating.
1- In this particular situation, It was against the law to take blood from the unconscious patient. That being said, why wouldn't this police offer be charged with intent to commit a crime? Is he above the law? Are all police officers, to some degree, above the law while on the job? It would seem so to me.
2- When a cop is a head case, and does something dumb like this, why don't other officers intervene? I mean, I can understand if it's a situation where a safety issue could be created. But In a situation like this, they are at a hospital and the nurse poses no threat to police officer. The Cop himself was the perpetrator of a crime. I mean, the other cops had to be thinking "omg this dude is a freaking mormon and is totally arresting a nurse who is upholding the law." Not to mention it's not like it's just the nurse. The cop is being told this by the nurse's supervisor as well.
3-How can people be expected to feel safe when a dude like this still has a job? Like basically, I just feel like the police department is conceding that, as long as they don't murder someone and thus create a PR nightmare, bad cops will keep their jobs and we just have to deal with it. If they unlawfully arrest us, assault us, commit injustice against us, even when we are upholding the law, it just sucks to be us and thats that. Why is it that when cops abuse their power and authority, they are not held to the same standards as normal citizens? They are not arrested, but instead often reassigned or suspended with pay.
Discuss
