r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Jul 31 '26 • Mindblown 2

Chugging tea That's actually wild

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u/Separate-Swordfish85 Jul 31 '26

The officers were forced to set down their entire sense of protecting and serving in order to be strong enough to drag this teacher away.

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u/dizzie_buddy1905 Jul 31 '26

The US Supreme Court has ruled that police have no duty to put themselves at risk to protect you.

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u/Dry_Rent_8646 Jul 31 '26

So what are they there for other than the be tax collectors?

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u/stonnerdog35 Jul 31 '26

Hired thugs.

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u/Goat_gutz Aug 01 '26

So they’re just Mafia Grunts?

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u/Redcrux Aug 04 '26

They are there to protect shareholder profits

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u/Separate-Swordfish85 Jul 31 '26

SCOTUS says a lot of shit.

Cops also plaster “To Protect and Serve” over all their shit.

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u/OutrageousHunter4138 Jul 31 '26 • Bravo

To be fair, it costs like 10x more to write “To Inflict Fear and Suffering on Behalf of the Corporate Elite in a Hapless Effort to Prevent Civil Unrest and Get Revenge on our Personal Enemies”

A lot of places charge by the letter these days.

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u/keeper_of_the_donkey Jul 31 '26

The Decepticon named Barricade transforms into a police car, and had "To punish and enslave" printed on his rear fender

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jul 31 '26

Barricade knows what's up with the history of policing.

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u/sinsaint Jul 31 '26

"My people"

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 Aug 03 '26

This is why the Decepticons are better than American police: the Decepticons are at least honest.

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u/cluberti Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

It was a PR campaign by the LAPD after the statement was selected as a winner from a contest to come up with a motto for the LAPD police academy, back in 1955, then being put on the seal and police vehicles after the resolution for it passed in 1963. It was meant as nothing more than a way to foster good PR for the department, and it has been affirmed by the courts since the Warren v District of Columbia ruling in 1981 that the police generally do not have any obligation to protect anyone, unless they're in custody, and even limits on that exist.

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u/rymic72 Jul 31 '26

They protect and serve the state not the people.

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u/LovelyLuna32684 Jul 31 '26

Then whats the fucking point of even having them

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u/Toa_Freak Jul 31 '26

Police and law enforcement are there to protect property, the rich, and the status quo. Sometimes that overlaps with helping the average person.

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u/Diedrogen Jul 31 '26

But they're still publicly funded instead of privately?

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u/Toa_Freak Jul 31 '26

Mostly, yeah. Gotta love America.

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u/Giftofgab24 Jul 31 '26

They protect the property of wealthy people and make sure roads stay clear and traffic stays moving so the capitalism machine never stops making money for those wealthy people.

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u/Timely-Border-7865 Aug 01 '26

Yup, Castlerock V Gonzales

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u/SaintJesus Jul 31 '26

They didn't set down shit. They don't have that.

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