...you had the audacity to piss and moan about YOUR stress levels, YOUR anxiety, YOUR level of discomfort because YOU had to wait for YOUR order.
You don't know what's wrong with people?! Are you kidding me?! In the span of a couple weeks...
2/12
..."people" saw video of white vigilantes hunt and kill #AhmaudArbery for jogging. We saw video of #CentralParkKaren attempting to weaponize the police against #ChristianCooper for asking her to leash her dog, as law requires.
3/12
...We learned of officers serving a no-knock warrant for a person they already had in custody, killing #BreonnaTaylor and then charging her boyfriend, #KennethWalker, with attempted murder and assault... in a stand your ground state.
4/12
...We watched one of your "blue brothers" strangle #GeorgeFloyd as though extrajudicial executions are part of the job description.
As for the refrain of "not all cops," in the weeks that have followed, as #WeThePeople have taken to the streets en masse...
5/12
...to protest #PoliceBrutality, we have watched as whole police departments, not just "a few bad apples," have responded with even more police brutality on peaceful protesters and the free press. We have seen some police virtue signaling...
6/12
...on social media insisting that they're one of the good ones without ever addressing or condemning the injustices their blue brothers regularly visit upon BIPOC. We have read the stories of cops quitting a post or phoning in sick or just quitting altogether...
7/12
...under the apparently crushing weight of accountability and the demand for constitutional policing.
Your blue brothers are dug in for the oppressors. It is as it has always been from slave patrols, to suffrage, to the labor movement, to the civil rights movement, to now.
8/12
The police always have and continue to "protect and serve" the status quo of the current power dynamic.
And then there's you, sitting in a parking lot having an existential crisis over an egg mcmuffin and subpar hashbrowns, demanding to be thanked for being a cop...
9/12
...and wondering what's wrong with people. Let me "plain" it for you #MollyMcMuffin since you didn't get it when it was "ex"plained. WE. DON'T. TRUST. YOU. We don't trust your blue brothers. We don't trust an institution that...
10/12
...was literally founded for the express purpose of hunting down black people and has resisted moving past that model for over 300 years.
Like it or not you are bound by the Constitution. With regards to your particular profession...
11/12
...you are bound by the 4th, 5th, 8th, and 14th amendments. When you step outside those parameters, we are allowed to exercise our 1st amendment rights. Yeah, #OfficerTalbert, we wholly get the point of your little video. When will you? #BlackLivesMatter #ONEV1
12/12
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