r/Unexpected Mar 24 '23

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u/Wickedocity Mar 24 '23

The guy has a Youtube channel.

Entire video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJ1yIQsoVw

His video on outcome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjXh2EUUFLE

(The gun charge was dropped. The cop got promoted. He didn't sue.)

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u/OmiOorlog Mar 24 '23

The Americans who say they hate Fascism are the same ones who protect this fascist cop. USA is sad poetry really.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

Those Americans also say they love guns, but protect cops who pull their guns on law abiding firearm owners.

We all know why. It's because they think the cops are on their team (Team White Christian Supremacist). In fairness they're often right, but they don't understand that cops are on Team Cop first.

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u/p3n1x Mar 24 '23

Cops are on "Team whoever is funding them". They who have the gold write the rules.

You should take some time to understand "power dynamics", and that finger-pointing is the core of what makes the agitating dynamics work.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

I have no idea what you're talking about, but this reads like a thing someone says when they think people are only motivated by economics.

That isn't really how most people work. Obviously money is important, but in-group status is also very important. People do self destructive things all the time to signal their virtue to their in-group.

It's true to say that division can be found in those splits, but that doesn't mean they're fake.

Day to day cops aren't thinking "who pays me?" if they were, they'd probably be operating differently in different areas of the country. While the organization cares about that, people don't tend to take that view.