I’m white. Like super pale white. And I feel your rage. But this isn’t just a race problem. This is a power problem. What’s the saying? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Police who are not Peace Officers first and foremost, who do not uphold the duty to serve and protect, who ignore order to claim…

*hugs* You’re not alone in your rage and it is a completely healthy and reasonable response.

Tasers can kill too:

“They are officers that shouldn’t be in uniform,” Robert Mann, the victim’s brother, told the Sacramento Bee.

Cops are the only profession entitled to unquestioned union benefits. Any deviation, or question of their authority, could potentially jeopardize the most generous and accepted union benefits of any profession in the country. It’s sad, but true. Teachers should be paid more, and treated better than the police, but…

Yes, absolutely. But I think the primary difference between policing and all other professions is that cops are empowered by the state to carry lethal weapons, meaning their mistakes are more likely to result in the loss of human life. If anything, police officers should be much, much more inclined to disavow…

This is Joseph Mann (his brother Robert is the one speaking).

Here’s my current cop beef. There are good cops and bad cops, just like any other profession. The difference between them and other professions is the need to defend rather than disavow the bad ones. I’m a teacher and my first thought when I hear about something horrible a teacher did is that they have disgraced the…

You should be worried about your friend. Scroll through The Counted (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database): An interactive website where you can click to read about individuals killed by police. There aren’t many white women, or children. But you’ll see…

OH FFS. Of course they didn’t try to contact mental health professionals. If they’d done that they wouldn’t have been able to have th3ir sick ass “fun” with the guy, and be hailed as the next poster of among the part of Trump’s base thay is for Trump’s idea of “LAW&ORDER” where racism runs rampant. I bet there is…

I have an acquaintance from high school who is married to a patrol cop, and she posts stuff about how he hates his job and never wants to go to work. He’s also incredibly sensitive to any criticism, even innocuous Facebook comments. When something terrible like this happens, I can’t help but think of him. I would 100%…