Bodycam videos show cops going after protesters downtown after that George Floyd vigil on May 31; officials to investigate

...to abuse and brutalize citizens. I can’t imagine why people would want to slash and re-allocate police budgets to other services.

To start ejecting the bad apples from the barrel, which I'm pretty sure is the second half of the old adage

Cops are pieces of shit. There are the violent, dumb thugs like the ones in those clips. And then there are the ones who let those violent criminal cops get away with it.

In one instance, a commanding officer approaches the man behind camera X81413955 and hands him a necktie with a price tag still on it, presumably from a store looted during the unrest.

“It’s pretty nice,” replies the cameraman, adding that it’s a “$50 tie.”

The commanding officer quickly leaves the area, turning his back on the camera. Meanwhile, the officer with the camera appears to pocket the item. The Boston Police Department did not provide a case number, evidence log, or any information about the tie.

Maybe we should pay these people more to disincentivize theft?

It's real cool that an increasingly large amount of our tax dollars is funding this violent street gang and anybody who questions that is dismissed as an irrational radical.

Really proving a point there guys, good work. As the old adage goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I was there and had left my younger daughter and my son's girlfriend , as me and others walked away we began to see armored trucks rushing down Washington Street for no reason. They came with the intent to make the peaceful protest look violent. I'm over them thinking black folks are here to be disrespected and mistreated. The laws never apply to the oppressed because they're created by and for those meant to do the oppressing. Things have to change. I pray this country does better by it's own citizens.

All Coppers Are Bastards

“We gotta start spraying more,” the officer wearing camera X81417350 says.

“You out?” he asks another police officer offscreen, holding up a can of pepper spray. “I got a little left.”

“I want to hit this asshole,” he says, gesturing toward the young man being pushed back. “I’ve used two of these already—I’ve got a little left, I want to hit this kid.”

Williams cited those comments in particular as indicative of the attitude police in Boston take toward demonstrators and the community.

“This is not law enforcement,” he said. “That’s not what they’re doing right there in the streets, ganging up on people using weaponry.”

“And they’re enjoying it,” he added.

I hope people take the time to read the entire article.

I don’t feel sorry for looters and vandals. The cops didn’t pull these people’s names out of a hat and decide to attack them. These are troublemaking vandals that are destroying America. Force is all they understand. And no, I’m not a cop nor am am I married to one.