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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:03 PM May 2020

Police chiefs react with disgust to Minneapolis death, try to reassure their own cities

Source: Washington Post

Police chiefs across the United States, many of whom have been pushing their officers to de-escalate tense situations and decrease their use of force, responded with disgust Wednesday to the death of George Floyd after an encounter with Minneapolis officers and moved to reassure their communities that they would not tolerate such brutality.

In years past, police officials probably would have called for full, time-consuming investigations and patience from angry citizens until all the facts were in. Not this time.

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo fired four officers within 24 hours, and the heads of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Major Cities Chiefs Association promptly issued statements of support for that move and denounced the prolonged suffocation of Floyd captured on cellphone video and soon streamed around the world.
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“The death of Mr. Floyd is deeply disturbing and should be of concern to all Americans,” said the Major Cities Chiefs, headed by Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo. “The officers’ actions are inconsistent with the training and protocols of our profession and MCCA commends Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo for his swift and decisive action to terminate the employment of the officers involved.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/05/27/police-chiefs-react-with-disgust-minneapolis-killing-try-reassure-their-own-cities/

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Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Good. Once again, the internet becomes an instrument of justice.
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:27 PM
May 2020

Absent the internet, I suspect yet another mistreated citizen would have been hidden under the rug.

-Laelth

pazzyanne

(6,518 posts)
6. Absolutely support this.
Thu May 28, 2020, 02:47 PM
May 2020

Mayor of Mpls banned Warrior-Style Police Training last year. Its Police Union Kept Offering It Anyway. Fire his *ss now!

apnu

(8,722 posts)
3. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo talks about firing, not charging the officer with murder.
Thu May 28, 2020, 01:19 PM
May 2020

This is why people are looting and generally losing their shit over this.

The message from many LEOs is clear: Kill a random civilian, you get fired, but are otherwise free. Clearly LEOs don't think the rules apply to them, but they are the ones who enforce the rules. Why are people rioting and looting? Because the one symbol of the law that everybody sees and is told to listen to has turned on the population. The logic is simple and sound at that point. If they rules don't apply to LEOs, then they don't apply anywhere else.

apnu

(8,722 posts)
4. Dear American police chiefs: STOP HIRING NAZIS!
Thu May 28, 2020, 01:21 PM
May 2020

From 2016: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

The FBI has known and warned everybody for over TEN YEARS that white supremacists have had a systematic program of infiltration in police agencies.

STOP HIRING NAZIS!

Its really that simple.

IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
5. That's nice, now how about some murder charges?
Thu May 28, 2020, 01:34 PM
May 2020

or manslaughter or whatever. They need consequences bigger than losing their jobs. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs without committing crimes at all.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
7. So far, everyone has come out disgusted with this. Even Limbaugh.
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:22 PM
May 2020

Yep, THAT Limbaugh
Called it a murder today

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
10. ONLY because Trump is talking outrage........
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:43 PM
May 2020

If Trump said there were bad people on both sides (as usual) then Pillboy wouldn't have made that statement. Both are just mining for votes for Republicans.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
12. Hey, I'll take everyone being against this brutality. They SHOULD be.
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:45 PM
May 2020

It will be fun seeing the usual cop excusers figuring out how to disagree with their masters

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
8. Appreciate the Chiefs speaking out; now how about shit-canning all the thugs in the force...
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:46 PM
May 2020

There are people who never should be cops in the first place, and their presence besmirches the decent cops and drags down the entire profession.

And those 4 guys in Minneapolis? Murder and accessory to murder charges, now.

If cops don't want to be looked at as jack-booted thugs, they need to do some thorough housecleaning.

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