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Thanks SPD for your extra diligence here in PROTECTING and SERVING no one. Fucktards.
Now, all we need is chili powder spray, salt spray, paprika spray and a dash of onion powder spray and we can make some big, gay tacos.
Thank you SPD!!!
It all makes me sad. At least there are some people with the spirit of Stonewall still in them. The SPD is so transparent, making their "It Gets Better" video, trying to butter us up. Fuck them, most of them would rather smash a fag.
Besides, as so many people jump to remind us, cops are really nice people doing a difficult job. There's only one or two bad apples, at most, in all of America, that just make the rest of them look bad. It really is a shame how the general populace judges them by these horrible, despicable actions, when they spend 99.9% of their time being saints, far away from everyone so no one ever sees that side.
Always love a chance to post this again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6FTWv7ab…
hos'em all down and Fuck You back, Assholes.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9llvTQn8v…
Get off your shit talking asses and celebrate!
Minorities think the SPD is racist, the queers think they are homophobic; the truth is they hold all the citizens of Seattle in utter contempt.
I'm sure it was an unpleasant experience, but it sounds as if someone might possibly be indulging in just a wee bit of excited hyperbole.
Right, that's why the Justice Department are investigating them.
But hey, US # 1.
Or something.
This wasn't part of the Pride march, this was just a bunch of angry, cop-hating (encouraged by The Stranger), angry, anarcho-homos like Ian Finklewanker thinking they can march down the middle of any old street late at night, block traffic, screaming 'our hill' and calling the police pigs when they try to enforce the law (I know, how dare they do that with anarchy-queers?).
Good on the cops for macing your arses when you refused their lawful order that you clear the street.
I hope the police department gets sued. Again.
I have to admit that I have a dislike for cops in general, even though, as a veteran, I've known plenty of nice people that happen to be in law enforcement (quite a few cops are also members of the National Guard, as was I).
That said, most of my experiences with the police have been negative, even as a member of the white middle class. This mostly comes from my experiences, as a patriotic American who exercises his right to protest the government (like when the Second Iraq War started); and as a person who was once a taxi driver for a living.
While a cab driver, I needed the police on several occasions. Almost always, they were rude and dismissive of me. On one occasion, they actually acted upset that I dare disrupt their dinner break, even though I had just been robbed and almost assaulted (outside of a Denny's type place).
If the police want cooperation from the public, they need to earn it first.
In most industrialized democracies, police forces do not have the same power that they do in America. In several democracies, police don't even carry firearms except under special circumstances. And yet, I always feel safer in those countries than in my own. Sad, really.
Way to not be the sort of credulous hack who just takes whatever's given to him and runs with it, without bothering to pick up the phone or send off an email to someone on the other side, so as to make at least a token nod in the general direction of impartial journalim, with a comparable person-to-person interaction.
Who knows, maybe The Cops would even tell you how much they're demanding in ransom for that helpless little girl they've kidnapped, if you bothered to ask.
At least 23 people including 11 police officers have been injured in rioting before a German third-division football match.
Osnabrück police told the dapd news agency on Saturday that trouble erupted before and during VfL Osnabrück's derby game against Preussen Münster.
Five police officers sustained burns and injuries from firework explosions. Twenty-nine arrests were made before the game after fans attacked police.
Large firecrackers were also thrown from the visiting fans' stand into the players' tunnel, injuring several people. Details of the injuries were not immediately known.
Police spokesman Georg Linke says "the perpetrators weren't found yet. We also don't know what type of pyrotechnics were used."
(My favorite part was when they marched down Pike, past the Wildrose's beer garden shouting the ol tried and true, "We're here! We're Queer! Get over it!" Really now?!? Don't think maybe --just maybe-- you're preachin' to the choir here, do ya?? (sigh) Kids these days... )
And sadly, not a one of them looked old enough to have ever marched with Act Up! -- let alone have a clue what Stonewall was all about. So the irony of these privileged-assed weekend-anarchist idjiots protesting "the corporatization of Pride" without having any idea at all how hard WE'd worked and how far WE've traveled to bring them this point -- all of it completely lost on them!
It's fucktards like this give real protesters -- protesting REAL causes and trying to get REAL changes -- a bad name.
The line officers use the tactics offered by their supervisors. Blame Diaz if you don't like pepper spray. It's not like the cops were given a choice to hand out free puppies or spray pepper and they chose to spray pepper just because they're assholes.
Some anarchists in the area actively celebrate the death of cops. Some encourage it.
Most clearly use negative interactions with the police as a tool to gain visibility for their group.
I for one have no reason not trust the police, always been professional when I deal with them, and I'm not rich guy just a middle class citizen.
Stick to arguing with your boyfriend over whether to get 'cherry' or 'pine' finishings at Ikea ladies.
I103 would provide real Citizen oversight of the Seattle PD:
Whereas, the United States Department of Justice finds that the Seattle Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of excessive force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and patterns of racially biased policing which include excessive use of force;
Section 4 .. (d) Rights to a Citizen Managed and Accountable Police Force. All residents of the City of Seattle have a right to a police force held fully accountable by its citizens. The Seattle Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability will now report to the Mayor.
"I wasn't there, I don't anything about the situation, but I am absolutely positive the cops over-reacted and violated everyone's rights to do whatever it was they were doing."
Whether this is a parody or not -- I presume it is -- it really should be the Official Slog Commenters' motto.
Wow, I didn't realize the General Assembly was using The People's Mic to draft legislation.
DOWN-FINGER-WIGGLES
Here you go:
SMC 21.36.410 Littering.
and:
SMC 15.46.030 Deposits in street or gut…
And if it was a city trash can, then I can google those vandalism/destruction of public property laws for you, too.
Flash forward to this morning and I come to find out that the police found themselves justified in pepper spraying a large group of people and dragging a woman across the ground because some garbage cans got knocked over, a dude briefly stood on a car, a cop got kicked in the knee and some people called the cops some bad names. I think the tactics of a lot of Seattle's anarchist community (especially the May Day business) is chickenshit and morally bankrupt, but that doesn't justify the level of force I saw last night. I've kept abreast of the SPD/DOJ/use-of-force saga through the media the last couple years, but it was really something else to witness something like that in person last night. It's a shame that every interaction I have with a cop from now on is going to be colored by that experience.
So um, Fuck You!
Whenever these videos surface, behind the officer actually involved in the implication, I'm consistently disturbed by the six-or-so extra cops always standing there with their hands on their belts, watching. Never does one step out of line and disagree, neither during the incident or later during the ensuing investigation. That's the part of the police culture that really scares me. Within their reality they are infallible.
Its worse than 'shoot first ask questions later.' Its more like 'shoot first, don't ask questions.'
Whenever these videos surface, behind the officer actually involved in the implication, I'm consistently disturbed by the six-or-so extra cops always standing there with their hands on their belts, watching. Never does one step out of line and disagree, neither during the incident or later during the ensuing investigation. That's the part of the police culture that really scares me. Within their reality they are infallible.
Its worse than 'shoot first ask questions later.' Its more like 'shoot first, don't ask questions.'
Oh Lordy ladies, you've been priced out of the Hill and the new queer Mecca, Kent, only aggravated your boils.
Quit your whining, idiotic Slogger fuckheads.
It sounds like in your case, at least, the tactic of relentlessly goading the police until they overreact has been a complete success. Your reaction here is precisely what the people who use that tactic are trying to achieve, no?
You know, you're absolutely right. We should all be allowed to follow cops around, spitting on them and insulting them, jumping on cars, throwing garbage cans around, and engaging in other peaceful forms of self-expression, for hour after hour, without any fear of cruel and needless reprisals.
Until we reach that day, alas, being a screaming public asshole will continue to involve an element of totally undeserved physical risk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ANLNUYi…
I couldn't watch the whole video because it was so disturbing and upsetting to watch...be warned....maybe it's time for the SPD to get, yet another, sensitivity training....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ANLNUYi…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ANLNUYi…
But if you're just drunk and feeling entitled and like yelling "FFFUUUCCCKKK YYYYOOOUUUU!" at the people who year after year help keep your ass safe from seriously bad people all while earning less than a Best Buy assistant manager, well then I don't really have any sympathy.
So were these really "protesters," and if so what were they protesting? Please tell me it's not the corporatization of Pride. And if it's for passing R74, I suspect there are better ways to get at the 7-12% of the undecideds.
The correct response to suspected wrongdoing is arrest and prosecution, not assault and battery.
So sick of cops acting like total asses to the people who employ them, and then whining when they're forced to do their jobs in a constitutional manner.
I was trying to find out what was going on and why there were so many cops there in such heavy equipment. I approached the closest officer and asked very respectfully "excuse me, officer, could I talk to you for a minute". At which point I was told "I'm busy, go away". I simply wanted to know why there was a strong police presence there when there didn't seem to be any threat.
I got out of there pretty quick after that - had some friends with me that I felt responsible for and I didn't want to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I understand the need for police to do crowd control but the friendly and calm atmosphere turned agressive and on edge as soon as dozens of fatigue-wearing cops, all of whom had their battons out, entered the fray. They made the situation worse - not the "protestors" who were just making a lot of noise -but this was Cap Hill on a Saturday during Pride weekend - it was hardly quiet out.
Ignore them. They'll go away. If a cop doesn't have the psychological fortitude to get insulted by a drunk without resorting to violence, then they don't belong on the street.
People who think the police's behavior was appropriate are the death of democracy.
It's true the smartest tactic would've been to ignored them. But there was a high probability those drunk morons would've started some shit just like last year. And the cops would've been bitched at for letting that happen by the merchants. Or bitched at when they broke up mob with pepper spray AFTER they started shit by The Stranger. Scenarios of deliberate provocation that are a "no win" for the cops.
While it's hard for me drum up much sympathy for the Anarchists since they were fucking disruptive assholes from the jump and turned a pleasant peaceful night into a war zone deliberately, the cops are supposed to be the impartial professionals. Not angry bullies.
The police probably over reacted, but the crowd was breaking the law, and were a bunch of douches.
I have to agree there with rob in baltimore.
There may be some over reacting, but people were breaking the law, just because there is an even, celebration or protest going on, does not give these people the right to break the laws, walk in the street, and obstruct others from using the road for which it was intended.
a beatdown is justified, but most semi-intelligent people could predict what happens next.