• @MrVilliam
    link
    English
    405 months ago

    One of my friends was a cop when George Floyd was murdered. He said something like “I don’t know what was in his heart so I can’t say for certain that he was racist.” I said well the area was 3% black and this happened to him while a crowd of people said stop, you’re killing him all over suspicion of a nonviolent crime; what are the odds that this happens to a white person, then understand that white people are significantly more than 3% of the population there.

    He’s not a cop anymore.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
      link
      115 months ago

      My friend dated a cop. He seemed like a good guy on paper.

      He was upset about the George Floyd incident and hated what that dept did. He supported the right to protest like with BLM, and was angry at the depts that were heavy handed. He was furious at the Uvalde department.

      His mentality was, “those departments make us look bad. My department is one of the good ones.”

      Here’s where it goes into ACAB.

      He got extremely protective and jealous of my friend and had trackers on her car. He racially profiled and called it “street math”. Every problem was because people are trash, bad cops weren’t “real cops”, and he was one of the “Real Cops” who was willing to take out the trash. He absolutely saw himself more like Jack Bauer and that sometimes you do bad shit to save the world.

      After the breakup, she scrubbed her social media and went into hiding. And dude harassed me for info for two years.

      So yeah, ACAB.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
      link
      English
      55 months ago

      He’s not a cop anymore.

      Kudos to him. Shame he couldn’t try and change things from the inside.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
        link
        English
        65 months ago

        The only way you could actually do that is by a massive effort to infiltrate precincts and affect how they police by setting norms and getting rid of dissenters for decades across the country.

        … You know, like the KKK did.