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A Cop's Name You Don't Know but Should

5 points by RickJWagner 6y ago

sonotathrowaway 6y ago
How is this relevant to HN? Why is cop propaganda being pushed here?
axguscbklp 6y ago
All the more reason to end the war on drugs. It would be easier to celebrate great cops if they did not go around enforcing bullshit laws about what people are allowed to put in their own bodies. In general, it would be easier to celebrate great cops if interacting with them was not the entry point to the US' horrific criminal justice system. The more we do to improve the criminal justice system, the less hated cops will probably be.
- sigmaprimus 6y ago
  This cop was assinated in an ambush after 911 recieved a call about a suspicious van with bomb making materials that lead the cops to a kill zone. TL;DR but where did it mention the war on drugs? Don't get me wrong I agree, drugs should be freely available for consumption by addicts. Take the need to push drugs on new users by current addicts to support their addictions, take the profits away from dealers, smugglers and cartels. And yes take the career opportunities away from cops, lawers, jailers and judges. The only logical answer is to legalize and provide drugs free of charge in a medical environment so addicts dont resort to crime to feed their addictions, safe injection sites reduce user harm but those users still harm the communities they are in by creating new addicts through pushing and harm their communities by commiting property crimes to pay for the drugs. Free drugs means no more desperate people being comprimised into criminals by a narco-industrial complex.
necovek 6y ago
I am sure everybody expects Damon Gutzwiller's killing to be fairly prosecuted, which is why this is not a story the impact of Chauvin's. Pretending that it is just does a disservice to Gutzwiller who has, indeed, died a heroic death in defense of the civil life! It's exactly media's duty not to oppose one story to another, because both of them might be true, and unrelated to each other.
- sonotathrowaway 6y ago
  It’s become harder to justify Chauvin’s actions after a murder conviction, so the next best defense is to deflect and blame the lügenpresse, holding them responsible for people being upset and try to shift the narrative, from “why do cops have no accountability” to “why is the media conspiring against cops”.

5 points by RickJWagner 6y ago

How is this relevant to HN? Why is cop propaganda being pushed here?

All the more reason to end the war on drugs. It would be easier to celebrate great cops if they did not go around enforcing bullshit laws about what people are allowed to put in their own bodies. In general, it would be easier to celebrate great cops if interacting with them was not the entry point to the US' horrific criminal justice system. The more we do to improve the criminal justice system, the less hated cops will probably be.

sigmaprimus 6y ago
This cop was assinated in an ambush after 911 recieved a call about a suspicious van with bomb making materials that lead the cops to a kill zone. TL;DR but where did it mention the war on drugs? Don't get me wrong I agree, drugs should be freely available for consumption by addicts. Take the need to push drugs on new users by current addicts to support their addictions, take the profits away from dealers, smugglers and cartels. And yes take the career opportunities away from cops, lawers, jailers and judges. The only logical answer is to legalize and provide drugs free of charge in a medical environment so addicts dont resort to crime to feed their addictions, safe injection sites reduce user harm but those users still harm the communities they are in by creating new addicts through pushing and harm their communities by commiting property crimes to pay for the drugs. Free drugs means no more desperate people being comprimised into criminals by a narco-industrial complex.

necovek 6y ago

I am sure everybody expects Damon Gutzwiller's killing to be fairly prosecuted, which is why this is not a story the impact of Chauvin's. Pretending that it is just does a disservice to Gutzwiller who has, indeed, died a heroic death in defense of the civil life! It's exactly media's duty not to oppose one story to another, because both of them might be true, and unrelated to each other.

sonotathrowaway 6y ago
It’s become harder to justify Chauvin’s actions after a murder conviction, so the next best defense is to deflect and blame the lügenpresse, holding them responsible for people being upset and try to shift the narrative, from “why do cops have no accountability” to “why is the media conspiring against cops”.