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March against police brutality through Dorchester on MLK Day
By adamg on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 11:31pm
Greg Cook chronicled the Mass Action Against Police Brutality’s MLK Day March for Justice, which had a stop on the steps of the Dorchester courthouse this afternoon.
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God Bless our Police Officers Cleared in Brown, Gray cases
God Bless our police officers of all races who have been cleared of police brutality, despite permanent damage to their reputations. The fake Mike Brown, Ferguson MO, "hands up, don't shoot" and "rough ride in the prisoner wagon" Baltimore MD, Freddie Gray case come to mind. Grateful to the Grand Jurors who saw through the media nonsense and cleared all officers. Also thinking of African-American Boston Police Officer David Williams who was reinstated. We all bleed blue, regardless of skin color.
Should police carry out the death penalty without due process?
That's what happened in the cases you cite. I prefer that law enforcement bring suspects to trial.
Protection of Life?
I believe self-defense is justified, not just for police in the Mike Brown, Ferguson case, but for all citizens so threatened. Freddie Gray, according to statements from another prisoner in the wagon, was injuring himself. Several of the officers accused were minority btw. Trust me, police would much rather a trial for the suspect and endless appeals (justice + overtime) than a court martial or termination hearing for the officer. Sadly, lethal force is sometimes the only option. I was glad to see most officers cleared last year, despite the media.
That's a good look
The guy who claims he is a former Boston police officer barking at our neighbors who do not want their kids, and people in their neighborhood, to be killed by our police force. It puts the word lie to commitment to community policing and restraint in use of lethal force.
Are you trolling?
First off, the BPD is great and can teach a few other police departments around the country on how to de-escalate a situation.
Now, would you like to go down a list of all the blacks and minorities killed by cops in the last 3 years and provide justification or excuses for all of them?
Forget it Jake
It's FISH town. He's in full-on "old man yells at cloud" mode, except the cloud is minorities, and his years of state-sanctioned attempts at cloud extermination were largely fruitless, and he's spent so much time yelling about it that now his family won't answer the phone when they see his name on the caller ID so he likes to vent on UHub instead.
And that is officially the most tortured Simpsons reference I've ever made. Anyway, thanks for reading this far, and GFY Fish!
Man, seeing that this comment
Man, seeing that this comment has 71 thumbs-ups legitimately bummed me out. What's wrong with people?
Give peace a chance
Both sides in this issue have to come to their senses. The people want community policing in their neighborhoods not strangers armed with rifles and tanks. The Police want and deserve respect and they shouldn't be used as tax collectors to collect fines levied against the poor. They shouldn't be used to target and arrest the homeless for quality of life issues. The Broken windows theory of policing neighborhoods is broken.
Broken window theory
Is not broken - just look at NYC.
Does the name Eric Gardner ring a bell
Cops are sent out to enforce tax laws on selling cigarettes, Eric dies in struggle with police Mayor of New York blames police. Do you really believe police are going to enforce quality of life issues if the powers to be aren't going to back them.
Not all it is cracked up to be
Broken windows policing is a mixed bag - particularly when it comes to small crimes resulting in police abuse of entire communities.
I'll warn you ahead of time - this is a long and complicated read (like most characterizations of actual reality involving human behavior) . It is, however, thorough: http://cebcp.org/evidence-based-policing/what-works-in-policing/research...