Yes, small government EXCEPT for policing brown people, immigrants, and drug users.

Think about this too: conservatives who cry for gun rights because they need to "be able to fight back against government/state intrusion" sees nothing wrong with an officer of the state shooting an unarmed black teen, or choking an asthmatic man wit ha list of priors to death, because "He was probably going to kill…

That might hurt his image and then the 30 Papa Johns commercials every 20 minutes wouldn't include Peyton anymore. So I'm for it.

" a man who would wait on hold for an hour to be interrupted repeatedly while trying to make an opaque point about Percy Harvin is finally only representing himself."

I heard that call live when I was preparing dinner (I think it was around then) and I really liked how Francesa at least got him in the trap by asking him if he'd be so offended if the players had come out expressing solidarity with the cops. I kind of wish you had the rest of the call recorded.

So, 1st Amendment applies to Joey from Islip to exercise his free speech to be an ignorant crypto-racist, but does not apply to the young black men that exist only to entertain him. Got it. Thanks for calling Joe!

I was at last weeks Rams game with my 11 year old cousin and he asked what the Rams players were doing. "Hand Up, Don't Shoot" was all I said and he understood completely. In this day in age, don't be surprised when the youth is far more informed than you may believe.

The team proceeded to win 52-0 following their controversial "gesture".

check the rate of grand jury indictments on police officers who have killed people period, let alone black people.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL! "Convenient" how you have to go all the way back to 1994 to find a case where a black guy was acquitted!

I don't recognize them as a union. Fuck them. In my view, unions support other unions and support the labor movement in general. Cops support themselves, and nobody else. Any other union goes out on strike or organizes a demonstration, police show up and beat the crap out of them. They're abusing the unionization…

And, yet, whenever Republicans go after unions with right-to-work and collective bargaining bullshit, they usually carve out police unions from retribution. That should really tell you whose side they are on.

You're an idiot.

I agree with you. I'm very pro-union, my father was in a union all his life, but I would shed no tears if cop unions were disbanded.

Don't shut the fuck up. Police unions completely pervert and destroy the idea of unionism and it disgusts me almost as much as all the other bullshit they pull.

Agreed. They're what happens when a union tips the scales of collective bargaining in the other direction. Turns out, people with an excessive amount of power are just assholes no matter which side they're on.

Well I've got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that…

So viewed, the record reveals that in July 1997, Roorda attempted to try to "cover" for another police officer by filing a report that contained false statements as to what happened during a suspect's apprehension and arrest.   As a result of this false report, all charges against the defendant involved were dropped,…

Police unions are the worst, THE worst, and I say that as a general supporter of unions.

It's interesting that a government agency is calling on a (mostly) private business to punish citizens for expressing a first amendment right.