It’s interesting that in a country which hates workers’ unions so much, police unions are so untouchable.

POLICE UNIONS ARE THE FUCKING WORST.

My question is do you gradually become a psychopath after becoming a cop, or are they just hiring psychopaths? Because all I see is white dudes getting raging boners from inflicting simply pain because they can.

Yeah, I recently saw a video of someone filming a cop beating up someone else, and the cop tells the person filming to “Back the fuck up” and shoves them. People were like “Well, they were disrespectful!” but like, a barista cannot tell someone to “Back the fuck up” and shove them. Any person working customer service…

You can see one of the cops go to help him and immediately get yanked back by another officer. I cannot even. 

And let’s say that WAS true, that he did trip and fall (HE DID NOT.)

I mean, he did trip and fall...in the same way that someone might trip and fall after getting shoved down a flight of stairs.

This is what happens when someone has no fear of accountability of any kind.

EXACTLY! At least 20 offices had to agree to say that he tripped after WATCHING HIM GET PUSHED. That’s not 2 bad apples, that’s the whole fucking force - that’s systemic.

You left out a key element of this. The official report first stated that the man “tripped and fell”... that Is, until the video emerged.

In addition to the brutality, there is also the blatant dishonesty—even knowing that they are surrounded by video cameras, police are routinely misrepresenting what is going on (here, they said the guy tripped and fell, which kind of leaves out an important detail). I hope the news media, which is now the target of…

“I yield my time, FUCK YOU.” is up there with my favorites so far.

Well, there is an obvious downside: there’s only so much you can do about the Iowa 4th District, because it’s rural, white and has little in the way of college education. Put that together, and you’ve got yourself a Trump District Cocktail. As much as I would like non-college educated rural whites to see their…

The cops have been doing a lot of photo ops. Doesn’t mean they don’t go back to shooting people with rubber bullets and tear gassing peaceful protesters as soon as the photographer gets the shot.

What kind of insensitive monster uses a boarded up building for a photo OP?

Time to play everyone’s favorite game: Most craven Republican defense of Trump. But really, as always, there are a variety of flavors to choose from, and it depends on how you like your bootlicking cowardice. Do you like blatantly mischaracterizing the situation? Here’s John Cornyn, a master of the form:

What’s happening right now is not about public safety. If anyone was interested in safety, you wouldn’t send police in full fucking riot gear out to deal with protesters who are protesting police abuse and violence. That is a deliberate provocation. And the police asserting their authority to act with impunity and…

He didn’t know that act, Miller did.

Police have looting the lives of black people for........ Well since the inception of “law enforcement” in this country.