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To Protect and Serve or shoot, bash and arrest?

Ideally no matter what the situation it should be the Polices job to protect and serve but more and more news clips keep surfacing from all over the US of Police officers extremely rough arresting tactics regardless a persons age, colour or mental health situation. The polices answer to everything is if military style orders don’t work then grab the suspect and force them into submission. It this happens to require breaking bones or tasering the person, then let’s do that.

What happened to communicating and listening to a member of the public?

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MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

You notice no police cars say “to serve and protect “?

justanothername · 51-55, M

@MrBrownstone I didn’t notice that. I thought they used to though?

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@justanothername Used to.

stratosranger · M

Actually Supreme Court decisions in two different cases upheld that police neither have to “serve” or “protect” even if the lives of children were at risk. That “serve and protect” moniker was and is a lie since cops are allowed to make judgement calls on whether or not to act. I think it’s a bullshit call by the Supreme Court. @MrBrownstone

justanothername · 51-55, M

@MrBrownstone now it’s just comply or we will shoot you.

justanothername · 51-55, M

@stratosranger I
Totally agree. The US has become a totalitarian state not dissimilar to what Chile used to be under Pinochae.