Your daily reminder that in the US the police: 1. don't work for you or your interests. They work for and to protect the interests of the owners of capital, in

Your daily reminder that in the US the police: 1. don't work for you or your interests. They work for and to protect the interests of the owners of capital, in this case the airlines; 2. have no obligation to know the law they're enforcing; and 3. have no obligation to protect you. US police are incredibly overpaid, under-educated, largely unaccountable (thanks to qualified immunity), are more interested in seizing assets than solving any crime and are armed like a military without being trained like one. Not knowing, not caring about and lying about the laws they are enforcing is routine. Excessive violence is routine. Selective enforcement is routine. "Defund hte police" is a bad name for stopping the police being an unaccountable paramilitary group of thugs for moneyed interests.