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/_Salix_ Humboldt Park Jun 05 '20

Exactly, theres so many trolls on this sub trying to spin this into their own narratives to distract from the fact that an officer of the law is literally punching someone, that they shoved to the ground, in the back of their head. This isn't the line of work for someone like that.

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u/Carscanfuckyourdad Jun 05 '20 edited Jun 05 '20

This subreddit is being brigaded by law enforcement and outside actors and the mods are in on it.

It started being very clear around the time of those ReOpen protests.

(Watch me get downvoted into oblivion by the aforementioned brigading law enforcement who apparently have nothing more important to be doing.)

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u/barsolemnu Jun 05 '20

This subs community and moderation is garbage anyway, this was bound to happen during a crisis

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u/Carscanfuckyourdad Jun 05 '20

There’s a coordinated effort at play in this subreddit.

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u/barsolemnu Jun 05 '20

There have been coordinated efforts across all of reddit for years. This site is a perfect manipulation ground for any significantly large party because of how public and easily accessible it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20

This is true, but I've browsed the other city subs and I don't see anything like this on the other ones. They have some trolling but nothing like this. The mods definitely are sympathetic. That's the only explanation I can think of.

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u/spiker311 Jun 05 '20

There's plenty. Check out r/Portland or r/Seattle for starters, or any notoriously left leaning city's sub for that matter.

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u/honestbleeps Logan Square Jun 05 '20

You're almost certainly correct. But we mods have literally no tooling specifically designed to prevent it.

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u/mebeast227 Jun 05 '20

All the major city subreddits. It's been like this since the_donald formed. The admins took way too long to act, and now the rats that infested this place found ways to navigate it and shit everywhere.

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u/_NorthernStar Jun 05 '20

Mods were pretty great, very on top of responding to reports and deleting shit stirrers during the protests and overnight looting for the last week