Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      184 months ago

      Cops love that it gets bad apples out before they spoil anything too.

      Too late!

    • Flying Squid
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      94 months ago

      Dude, the bad apples spoiled things long before any of us were born.

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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        That’s not really how churn works but okay.

        Unless by apples you mean society in general, because people are everywhere. But that’s more indicative of your bushel, not ours lol.

        • Flying Squid
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          24 months ago

          No, I mean the police in general. Do you really not know how police were even worse to black people before the Civil Rights act?

            • Flying Squid
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              14 months ago

              How did you even come close to getting that from what I said?

              • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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                14 months ago

                It’s a hard time trying to understand what you’re even saying. You’re agreeing or even qualifying what I wrote, but replying in a tone like you’re not lol. It’s hard to take it seriously.

                • Flying Squid
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                  14 months ago

                  I am neither. I am telling you that there are no “few bad apples” to get out of the police because the whole thing is already rotten to the core and has been for a very long time since there’s never been reformation, just a few laws to stop some of the most egregious behavior.

                  • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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                    So maybe you’re not familiar with churn then. Churn is the turn over rate for employees. I also think you misunderstand what reformation means, how long it takes, and that there’s no tipping point of when something is reformed or not. It wasn’t magically Roman Catholicism to Lutheranism after Luther penned the 95 Theses lol.

                    1. You already said that civil rights have gotten better.

                    2. You already agreed there are new laws and increased oversight regularly.

                    3. Employees turn over as there is natural churn. Combined with churn from increased oversight and scrutiny preventing bad people or stopping heinous shit. You also have lawsuits and criminal proceedings to get rid of bad police.

                    4. How do you propose 1 works without 2 and 3? How do you posit that police aren’t better almost year by year if the entire bushel is spoiled?