• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    2552·
    2 months ago

    Recently a cop died in my city. The news was like “officer died on duty while responding to a robbery”.

    Turns out the fat ass died of a heart attack in his cruiser while parked outside.

    Now the city police is painting him as a fallen hero who deserves a state funeral paid by us. Meanwhile I lost 5 of my coworkers during COVID, working at a hospital. Nobody lowered a flag or gave them so much as a mention in the newspaper

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    6198·
    2 months ago

    I don’t like police officers as a general rule. But I also don’t really advocate for death as a blanket statement. This is just a poor taste joke.

    Edit: Jesus, ya’ll can stop replying now. No wonder we have genocide, so easy to dehumanized others, and not even notice.

          • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
            340·
            2 months ago

            Fair enough. I guess my overarching point is that making generalizing statements like “all cops are racist” or “the victims of cops can’t stop being black” are harmful to the discussion considering there are also non-black victims of police brutality.

            I feel it’s better to say that there’s an issue with racism within the police force that needs a solution (which is one of the main points of BLM) rather than resorting to lazy slogans like ACAB that do nothing to further the discussion. The very definition of slacktivism

            • ghen@sh.itjust.works
              141·
              2 months ago

              While people might actually say out loud that all cops are racist, what they actually mean is that the system is racist. Not all cops are racist, but they participate in a racist system. That makes them bastards.

            • chingadera@lemmy.world
              61·
              2 months ago

              Id say that’s definitely one of the core issues, but also the police’s core history as well. I do know that cops can do good things, but I’ll still stand with the ACAB crowd all day. Even though those cops can and do good things, at their core they’ve joined an organization that will protect themselves and the rich at the cost of us. That is undeniable. There is something categorically wrong with the police force in the US and likely most of the world.

              • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
                13·
                2 months ago

                This is kinda the problem with this reasoning though. You’d have to admit the police do more good than harm by maintaining some form of societal order and occasional brutality is only some consequence of it.

                I’d prefer to live in a world with bastards that maintain order than none at all.

                • chingadera@lemmy.world
                  5·
                  2 months ago

                  That’s what we’re talking about though. What they’re doing is not order. The police typically escalate situations that don’t need to be escalated, they’re prone to fear because it’s how they’re trained and they view us as criminals and assailants. They do not protect order for normal people, they protect order for those that have enough power and influence.

                  No one feels comfortable when cops are around aside from cops and the rich. You’re trading false security for your rights.

    • Limonene@lemmy.world
      514·
      2 months ago

      I agree about blanket statements and calls for death, but it looks to me like this meme is just calling cops trash.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      357·
      2 months ago

      They’re human beings who have chosen to sell their body and will to the state to be used as a cudgel to enforce the state’s will through violence. We would prefer that they voluntarily stop participating in the oppression, but if they don’t they are willingly taking up arms against the disenfranchised, which means I have less than zero sympathy when they get what’s coming to them.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        625·
        2 months ago

        “The state’s will” in most cases is to stop a murderer or a robber or whatnot.

        People work for the police not to become the instrument of the state, but to prevent actual crimes. The rest sadly often comes after.

        Y’all acting like cops are just useless parasites - good luck surviving a week in a modern word without them.

          • Allero@lemmy.today
            23·
            2 months ago

            In before times, crimes were easier to stop as people primarily lived in small communities and it was easy to find out and exclude people, which then often meant death.

            But even still, plenty of today’s crimes were rampant. As much as I’d love to see anarchism in action, this requires core changes to the structure of society, and we’re not at the point where getting rid of police will be a positive step forward.

            • Crampi@sh.itjust.works
              41·
              2 months ago

              Police doesn’t stop crime, it never has and it never will. You have to get this idea out of your head.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    19120·
    2 months ago

    So in response to cops stereotyping minorities, let’s sterotype all cops? Then let’s take that to the extreme and disrepect a dead person you know nothing about, for laughs.
    Even If you knew for a fact that the person in that cofin was a bad cop, does thier family deserve this image being passed around like this. No. One could understand if your motive was to help effect change, and crossing this line would help. But you are doing it for laughs and internet points. There is nothing good about that.