1/ No one out here is talking about the tactical failures of cops. Like, some of this shit, is tactically stupid.

Its not only that police are acting a soldiers, but poor soldiers at that.

I say this as someone who has trained as both. #DefundThePolice
2/Policing over the years has siphoned billions $ in research, tech, and weaponry to give police options. Yet, the instinctive option is universally still: the gun.

When you publicly debate such tactics, police throw up the whole "split second", "you dont understand" shit.
3/Surgeons, astronauts, race car drivers - all make split second decisions that are still calculated and responsible.

But this isn& #39;t really about that, because the truth is, cops have radios/surveillance/and investigative capabilities...
4/However, police are hardly interested in "justice work", their stats show this - according to the FBI& #39;s latest data, cops only clear about avg 45% of all violent crimes, and 15% of all property crimes.
5/When Minn. police were presented with a tip about counterfeit bills, police didn& #39;t investigate possible larger criminal conspiracy involving who made these fake bills.....instead...they suffocated #GeorgeFloyd , killing their only lead, in the middle of the street.
6/When a Cleveland boy was playing with a probable-toy-gun, police weren& #39;t interested in who sold this to a minor (which is illegal) - instead - they shot their lead, 12-yr-old #TamirRice within 2 seconds of arriving.
7/ I don& #39;t say all this to empower the police to take punitive actions or investigate every crime, I& #39;m just using this as an example to explain how policing isn& #39;t about solving crimes anymore - its about demonstrations of authority. And cops are killing people to maintain it.
8/PS: The reason why people like #KyleRittenhouse get to go home at sleep at night, even though shot people in the street on camera, is because their political stance/and whiteness do not challenge the authority of the police. (Even though vigilante actions technically should)
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