Who would have thought the LAPD would commit such blatant police brutality? Oh wait, everyone.
If you ever wonder why police budgets are so over-inflated, it's because an absurd number of their unqualified thugs get sued for shot like this, and they have to pay out huge amounts of compensation. You'd think they'd learn, but they won't as long as they keep getting basically unlimited budgets and no real consequences.
I made an argument with one of my co-workers that I think that police unions should have to pay all legal bills and payouts for cops getting sued for violating rights. He responded "That's a quick way to get rid of all police unions," I had to stop and think if that would be a problem or not.
My point was the police unions are the only ones that can hold their members accountable. If they forced their members to act better instead of being thugs then things might change. If Police unions don't hold themselves accountable then no one will.
Under Capitalism, the police can only ever be the millitant arm of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. ACAB has value as a phrase because the police only serve Capital. As long as Capital is dominant over humanity, rather than the inverse, police will be used primarily against the working class.
No, the ~~legal~~ lawsuit payouts don't come from the cops, their insurance, or their pensions. The taxpayers foot the bill for the lawsuits by losing money from their city's funds.
NYPD pays $600,000/ year as pension.
They have to be destroyed by any means necessary.
Defund the entire department until they bring forward the cops who did this
LAPD is a fucking gang
How can we as a society tolerate this?
Because the bulk of society in the US, the working class, has no say in the matter.
Bullshit. The working class is your only hope of fixing this and they're doing fuck all.
Currently, the working class of LA is protesting. There's a chance it spreads now, too, which would be great, but hopefully this also leads to organizing.
Abject cowardice and laziness?
The police badge is the most common gang sign that I regularly see.
When criminals wear badges.
Why the fuck do the police still use horses?
Are there still bandits in the wild west robbing steam trains?
Fake democracy
Fuck USA! USA!USA!
They have to be killed. One day you'll learn.