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To be fair there are a ton of cop-sympathizing democratic politicians. Even the supposed super progressive Mayor of Seattle who claims to have a track record of
by 93po 6y ago
To be fair there are a ton of cop-sympathizing democratic politicians. Even the supposed super progressive Mayor of Seattle who claims to have a track record of police reform is extremely pro-cop and constantly authorized the use of flash bags, tear gas, and other extreme measures for BLM protests.
- mywittyname 6y agoI doubt we'll ever see any influential politician make a real push for police reform. That would be suicide, and not of the political kind.
- mainstreemm 6y agoThe mayor of Seattle where they tolerated an occupation for several weeks by an insurgent force, waiting until two children were murdered within the zone to break it up, and now facing a new autonomous zone at Cal Anderson, has frankly not done enough to end the insurgent behavior in Seattle. I'm fine with tear gas against militants who capture parts of our cities and hold them hostage, destroying businesses, committing mass vandalization, harassment of bystanders, LARPing revolution, and inevitably getting innocent children -- two at CHAZ in separate incidents -- killed, and then preventing police from investigating those murders. Much of the same can be said for Portland. We don't need to defund police, we need to defund educational programs teaching Critical Race Theory, which argues that the US is illegitimate and the land should be "returned" to indigenous nations, which I guess means removing or killing people of European descent. Look up the claims of the Red House in Portland if you don't believe me. Look up "LAND BACK".
- brendoelfrendo 6y agoI'm impressed you can type with your tongue so deep in that boot.
- dang 6y agoWe've banned the GP account, but comments like yours here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462166 are not acceptable on HN. If you keep doing that we will ban your account as well, so please don't, and please stop posting unsubstantive comments in general. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
- jacobolus 6y agoWhat matters most is GOP/Federalist society federal judges. If GOP activists hadn't controlled the Supreme Court for the past 50 years (despite the GOP losing most presidential elections during that time) this and many other areas of American jurisprudence would look significantly different.
- WaitWaitWha 6y agoAsset forfeitures are "done by cops", but the laws giving them power are written and passed by politicians and directed by attorneys.