Like I tell some of my coworkers, “cops like you get cops like me killed. "

Thank you for serving without being a fucking dickhead:)

Really heartwarming to see the few upstanding commenters here with a robust sense of what it’s supposed to mean to be a public servant. “If you speak out against the cops, why should they help you?”

Also a cop, from the Bay Area, and Santa Clara hires cops from around the Bay Area to work these games. The cops from the area AREN’T PART OF THE UNION for the most part, so for the union to threaten to not work these games makes little sense.

Right? There wouldn’t be near the public outrage if even half the cops who’re doing this stupid shit faced any kind of punishment at all

In most jobs I know, people don’t turn down lucrative overtime pay because their feelings got hurt. Sounds like what they really care about is people “respecting” them without question or criticism.

It’s quite common. In most states, you can hire police to work security for your event, or even for one of those police escort convoys. Essentially you’re paying for “extra” hours that the normal police budget would not account for. So they are regular cops, but their salary for that span of time is paid for by the…

Wait. This is what I don’t get. If they’re wearing a government police uniform, how the fuck are they paid privately? Also how are you allowed to wear your government issued police uniform to work a non government private job? Who allows this?

Dear Santa Clara cops,

That one guy offends me so I refuse to protect the other 70,000 or so people in the stadium.

This is too rich. So a government entity who has had a history of harrasing, intimidating, and outright killing members of a particular ethnic group is upset because they feel they are being harrassed and intimidated by a sock-wearing professional athlete from said ethnic group? If there is any doubt about how law…

Aww my precious little snow flakes are sad. Come here and let dada give you some hugs and kisses. Don’t worry my sweet little guys. You will get to kill minorities and get away with it again someday. Now go to sleep and dream of the good ol’ days when you could hurt whoever you wanted.

This type of stuff proves that being a cop is just a job, and not some higher calling.

Wait..so Santa Clara police are going to stop working OFF-HOURS, IN UNIFORM, while being paid — by a private entity— to use their government-backed powers of force, arrest, and their virtual immunity to prosecution, to enforce private sector security?

Turns out cops feeling threatened by a person of color merely sitting there is pretty close to the root of the very problem Kapernick is complaining about.

Definitely the role of the Union to squash lucrative overtime opportunities for its members.

To Protect and Serve*

Really. Peaceful protest is “an environment of harassing behavior” now? What delicate things.

And these are probably the same people who complain on Facebook about the scourge of academic “safe spaces” and the “pussification” of today’s youth.

It's a good thing people this sensitive have blanket license to harass and murder the people complaining about this very fact.