I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
Orwell, 1938
Yeah I would imagine the AFL CIO needs police unions way more than police unions need them
People forget (because the people who control the history books want us to forget) that there was a strong labor / socialism movement in the U.S. in the late 1800s / early 1900s. Then came the Depression, the War, and the communist purges.
So he got arrested for being black in public I guess?
I think it was the hoodie
If I was on the jury of someone accused of killing a cop I’d acquit every time no questions asked.
The wild part is the suspicious activity they were investigating was a warrant on someone for fucking panhandling
Well he was put in handcuffs but wasn’t arrested since he did absolutely nothing wrong well except for walking while black
Unless it’s another cop.
I think this is from like week 2 of cop school:
“If you see a fellow officer peacefully talking to a black man, sneak up behind the black man and body-slam him, simply because you can.”
So uh this story from Milwaukee is pretty bananas
https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/1275694559595544577
Yeah saw that this morning. This is the person tweeting about it from Milwaukee and the thread has a few videos from the incident
https://twitter.com/eugene_v_dabbs/status/1275548492367183872?s=21
What the hell? This story is beyond the pale, even for USA#1.
I’m genuinely curious what the fuck this was.
Good. Now convict them.
I guess I am on a Wisconsin unrest kick
One of the statues was of a Union officer, the other was a women’s rights monument.
Wut. Are the Nazis toppling statues too now?