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by spacemanmatt 3734 days ago
In TX, I called the cops on my (insane, belligerent, beating down my front door) ex and all she had to do was lie to get me arrested. The police are dumber than rocks and I had to wage a credible threat to prosecute my lying ex for perjury and false statements to police to get my case dropped.
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yarou 3734 days ago
That sounds horrible. But it's not as bad as SF, where the SFPD shoots first and asks questions later.

Edit: why the downvotes? I can provide an innumerable amount of sources.[0][1][2]

[0] http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/police-shot-and-ki...

[1] https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/A%20Department%20...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-founder-ian-murdoc...

I get that it's easy to bury your head in the sand when it comes to these things, but there is a major league problem with the police here in SF. They are accountable to nobody and continue to harass and intimidate everyone, not just minorities.

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LordKano 3734 days ago
I get that it's easy to bury your head in the sand when it comes to these things, but there is a major league problem with the police here in SF. They are accountable to nobody and continue to harass and intimidate everyone, not just minorities.

A lot of people don't understand this.

It starts off with minorities because, being minorities, they don't have the political clout to do anything about it.

The downtown decision makers don't care if some black or brown kid gets his head split open for not moving fast enough when the police ordered him to leave.

They don't care until it's someone that is important to them. When it's John Q MiddleClassSuburbanWhiteTeen who gets arrested for a made up offense, it's too late to fix the problem. At that point, the machinations are already in place to abuse everyone.

What they do to the minorities, they'll eventually do to you.

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rm_-rf_slash 3734 days ago
First they came for the Mexicans, and I did not speak up, for I am not Mexican.

Then they came for the tech bros.

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spacemanmatt 3734 days ago
Austin has plenty of problems with cops killing black people. It's an utter disgrace.
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rm_-rf_slash 3734 days ago
I agree. There are too many cases in the city where innocent people have been shot for no reason and nobody is punished.
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wl 3734 days ago
Citing the Mario Woods shooting does nothing for your case. For those who haven't been following along, Woods had just stabbed a total stranger on the street and police showed up to apprehend him. He would not drop his knife after repeated orders and use of less lethal force like pepper spray and bean bag rounds. After a few minutes, he tried to break through the perimeter the cops had set up around him. At that point, the police could have either let a dangerous man escape, they could put themselves in great peril by physically stopping a charging man with a knife, or they could shoot him and end the threat to the public and themselves.

I'm not saying that the police couldn't have handled this better, but characterizing this incident as "shoot first and ask questions later" is mendacious.

Edit: And Ian Murdock? What evidence is there that police killed him?

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