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The officer should have arrested the ICE agent for brandishing their weapon.
Cops arresting cops, that’s a good one.
How many good cops does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one, but they don’t exist.
Oooooooooh
I dunno, they were too busy beating the room for being black.
I’ll let you know when a good cop changes anything!
Actual good cops change things all the time, unfortunately usually in regards to their own status as cops to something else like mysteriously injured or involuntarily institutionalized.
I dont know. I’ve never seen a good cop change anything.
I suspect them of occasionally changing their own underwear
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The officer that let the ICE agent go should be arrested pursuant to CA penal code section 142, refusal to execute duties as obligated by the state.
You don’t get “discretion” when the criminal in question is waving around lethal force for no reason. Failure to act is complicit behavior.
If the first dead ICE agent was due to local police shooting them, that would be great. Will make it harder for MAGA people to create a fake story about violent gang members killing them. (Yes cops are technically violent gang members i know…)
Yes cops are technically violent gang members i know…
Hey, all that matters is whose side they’re on! ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
MAGA would just spin the local cop as an Antifa. You know they do demonization as a science, at this point. It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be plausible enough for Fox News viewers.
If a masked or non-uniformed man points a gun at me, I’m playing it cool for 3-seconds while I prepare to shoot back. I no longer leave the house unarmed, and that makes me fucking sick.
You’re going to give them a whole three seconds?
It’s going to take 3 seconds to get my weapon unsafed and into play. If I see it coming, different story.
These guys are brandishing, intending to intimidate, not opening fire. So yeah, I got 3 seconds to spare.
Claim you’re plain clothed ice and that buys you a good 20 extra seconds.
I believe you, but that sounds like an eternity.
Right? Like, 3 seconds is enough time for them to shoot you
Rest in peace
I fully expect the people they’re sending to El Salvador will die even worse deaths.
I am well aware of the consequences.
The moment they approach you, you are dead man already
On the count of three…draw!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cox_(police_officer)
As a plainclothes officer, Cox was mistaken for a suspect and briefly beaten while still in training, and was once purposefully hit by a police vehicle and pinned to a wall. He recovered quickly both of these times and decided not to file complaints.
In 1995, while Cox was working in plainclothes, his car was at the front of a high-speed chase in pursuit of gang members suspected of homicide. The chase involved several cars from the BPD and other departments. Cox continued the chase on foot, but was again mistaken by other officers for a suspect. He was badly beaten by four officers and hospitalized, suffering a serious brain injury. After the officers realized his actual identity (upon one officer noticing the police badge under Cox’s jacket), they quickly abandoned him to bleed on the sidewalk. It took Cox six months to recover from many of the physical injuries he incurred.
Cox learned only from newspaper reports that the other officers had failed to report the incident. He has recounted having become upset at efforts by the other officers to hide what had occurred. He began receiving harassing phone calls from other officers even before he had decided whether he would file a complaint. For the next four years, Cox sought acknowledgement of what had taken place, hoping for, at the very least, an apology. In pursuit of this, he ultimately brought a lawsuit against BPD for the incident, which broke years of internal silence within the department on such misconduct, defying what was considered a “blue wall of silence.” While seeking to receive some justice for his beating, Cox was rendered a social pariah within the department, and faced threats and harassment from others in the department.
TLDR: undercover cop got beaten by uniformed cops… same could happen to random armed masked men.
