Lawless and Orderless
Can it really be SO DIFFICULT to come up with a set of policies that best guarantee the public safety without pride or prejudice? Surely there are level headed, non-controversial even, solutions to the overabundance of people who are "mistakenly" killed by police officers. Obviously it's a dangerous job because it requires dealing with the criminal element. But they seem to be making it far more difficult than it needs to be, routinely perceiving law abiding citizens as threats and promptly turning them into corpses. And far too often than anyone should be comfortable with, those unarmed, law abiding citizens who end up being killed by a cop despite not being a threat to anyone happen to be African American. We can do better. We must do better. The alternative is anarchy. The alternative, eventually, inevitably, is Civil War.
On the corner of Grand and Lafayette, an artist has compiled an astounding and heartbreaking list of the Black and Brown victims of police brutality. pic.twitter.com/SjPS73zirs
— The Lower Eastside Girls Club (@girlsclubny) September 3, 2020
When will it stop? When will we make it stop? #DaunteWright pic.twitter.com/4xPiKPR8nX
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 13, 2021
100% a lie but incredible that their chosen line of defense is, "we cannot competently operate firearms." https://t.co/mpDbnEAt2j
— RealJackEason (@realJackEason) April 12, 2021
Why is anyone against stronger gun regulations when people who are actually trained/employed to properly use them when absolutely necessary often don't seem to know what the hell they're doing? But we should want guns in the hand of any idiot who thinks the 2nd Amendment is cool? https://t.co/3xNikeSvq6
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 12, 2021
Maybe, (hear me out now, people) a cop's gun and a cop's taser should be kept in completely different areas and also feel quite different to the touch so it isn't so easy to mistake one for the other. Some mistakes (if that's what happened) should be made very difficult to make. https://t.co/c71delDA9P
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 12, 2021
BREAKING: Police officer responsible for pepper spraying Army Lt. Caron Nazario on December 5, 2020 has been fired. pic.twitter.com/c6i0TkpCsC
— Eric Cox (@EricCoxTV) April 12, 2021
Hold up! They pepper sprayed a US soldier who was IN UNIFORM?
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 12, 2021
Being a cop is obviously a hard job. But it can't be THAT HARD. Can't an IQ test be administered to weed out pure simpletons? If we can't keep out all of the bigots can we at least keep out all of the morons?
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 12, 2021
We simply do not need armed police officers to respond to traffic violations.
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) April 12, 2021
White supremacy is expecting Black calm during a traffic stop beneath police violence's deadly spectre, but making every excuse for officers who "overreact."
— Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD (@RevJacquiLewis) April 12, 2021
My takeaway from the most recent scary, terrible thing to happen during a traffic stop is the same as it's always been.
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) April 11, 2021
There's no good reason to have 90% of traffic stops in a world where the police can run your tags and text a ticket to the owner of the car.
Of course police should stop people who are driving dangerously, and, yes, of course they should do it when the plate appears to be missing.
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) April 11, 2021
But if traffic stops are so dangerous for police officers that they are immediately pulling their firearms, we should lessen that danger
And if it's not actually all that dangerous, and a lot of the talk about danger is really just a pretext to do a lot of warrantless searches?
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) April 11, 2021
An even better reason to limit the practice as much as we can.
When I did a ride along, every single traffic stop was pretextual. Basically, we followed cars that the officer wanted to stop until they did something that allowed him to stop them.
— Matthew Bruckner (@Prof_Bruckner) April 11, 2021
Glad Virginia has taken steps to stop this type of police activity. https://t.co/rAcfUQvL4I
— 😷KeepWearingAMask😷 (@Jody537LN) April 11, 2021
With all these wonderful solutions --- won't it be harder to hunt the black people? pic.twitter.com/9G4j7jbvgP
— BLACK CONSERVATIVE (@blackrepublican) April 12, 2021
A Line A Day: FIRST DAY ON THE JOB https://t.co/Es4sfxvKCT pic.twitter.com/u4Qid6mWtU
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 12, 2021
Brooklyn center police are flying a blue line flag outside the station right now pic.twitter.com/07i9IezVNP
— Andy Mannix (@AndrewMannix) April 12, 2021
Breaking: Kim Potter, identified as the officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, has resigned from her position "effectively immediately" on Tuesday, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said in a statement. https://t.co/gGoMzSi4FY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 13, 2021
#DaunteWright’s father speaks out: "I can't accept that – a mistake, that doesn't even sound right. This officer has been on the force for 26 years. I can't accept that."pic.twitter.com/P9FRnpM3jQ
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 13, 2021
Derek Chauvin had better be convicted, because if not, it's going to get real ugly. I haven't been following the trial because I saw no need. This is as open & shut a case as has ever been. A cop can fire a gun by accident, but not kneel on someone's neck for 9 minutes by mistake
— Roy L. Pickering Jr. (@AuthorofPatches) April 11, 2021
Enough is enough. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. Far too many hashtagged names. Far too many Black lives needlessly lost.
