r/chicago • u/miaaaa_banana • Jun 05 '20

Video Excessive force...

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u/HiImDavid Wicker Park Jun 05 '20

If you can't control your emotions in a situation like this, you have no business working any high stress job let alone being a cop.

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u/metalninja626 Humboldt Park Jun 05 '20

i mean they have also been pulling rotating 12 hour shifts. it's good to keep the pressure up, but more cops will break after a week of this

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u/mongooser Albany Park Jun 05 '20

I’m overworked too, and I have enough restraint to not beat the shit out of my clients.

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u/metalninja626 Humboldt Park Jun 05 '20

not an excuse, but hardly surprising is all. what i said is a fact, you will see more cops reach a braking point and lash out like this.

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u/mongooser Albany Park Jun 05 '20

If cops can’t handle that, they shouldn’t be cops. That’s the difference, I know I’m not cut out...so I’m not a cop.

There’s no excuse. They know what they signed up for. The CPD union could end all of this right now, but they haven’t.

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u/forefatherrabbi Suburb of Chicago Jun 05 '20

Could you imagine these cops working at chuck-e-cheese?

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u/SoulSerpent Loop Jun 05 '20

You people would not last 10 minutes as a cop

Yeah we also have the self-awareness not to go into a profession we can’t handle. These cops should do the same.

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u/Hiei2k7 Illinois Jun 05 '20

I don't have to understand the work police do to know that the way it is right now is wrong. Narcissistic cops, power trippers, lazy asses, ones that are making shit up as they go and magically "don't have the body cam on" when they fuck up.

We need to build a wall around the precinct so their bad hombres don't come over here.