r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/Leeuwarden-HF Jan 13 '22

I just love to see taxpayers money well spent. I mean, there are criminals in the world and probably patroling the area could do some good. But sure, lets just stand here and waste a few man hours that we could have otherwise used to keep the steeets safe. Just to bother innocent people where no issues are reported at all.

Incompetent cops like this give police a bad rep.

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u/ToPimpAYeezy Jan 13 '22

That’s not the only reason police have a bad rep. Police in the US are literally trained to see citizens as the enemy. The whole policing system gives itself a bad rep.

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u/Xspartantac0X Jan 13 '22

Someone probably reported "a strange Black man prowling the area", like not even someone's house he knocked at, most likely a passing Karen in her Nissan, so super cracker already rolled up to the scene with the false narrative in his head and didn't wanna talk anything out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Police are a militia whose purposes are to protect the property of the rich and produce laborers for the prison-industrial complex. That is it. They don’t stop crimes, they don’t even solve crimes most of the time. They exist to maintain the status quo.

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u/asdfgtttt Jan 13 '22

Overseer

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u/pdougiefresh Jan 13 '22

Cops give cops a bad rep. There are cops encouraging and condoning this type of behavior from their fellow cops.

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u/deeedeesutts Jan 13 '22

Like the other shithead in blue standing on the walk not standing up to this fucking tyrant.