Body camera footage shows the moment an LMPD officer hands a woman in labor a citation for unlawful camping as she waits for an ambulance.

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Proof all pigs have fucken cognitive damage.

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People really have no idea the meaning their words convey.

It’s not proof, it’s a sample size of 1 and I’d say it’s much more a display of delusion and hate than ‘cognitive damage’.

You think you’re helping, but you aren’t.

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It’s okay to let people be angry about things that should enrage everyone with a pulse. Their sentiment is 100% accurate even if their words aren’t perfectly precise.

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It’s not perfect precision I’m suggesting. A modicum of reality and logic is all, because by ‘being angry’ and making outlandish claims like that, it hurts the whole movement.

It’s essentially ‘Trumpism’, just say whatever you want about people you don’t like and present it as fact.

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and every other cop on that force will back this asshole to the blue.

ACAB doesn’t mean that every cop is running around raping and extorting sex from everyone; or that they’re all running around killing black kids. ACAB does mean that the ones who are “good” are also protecting the ones who are bad rather than arresting them and treating their fellow cops as they would any one else.

if you show me a cop who isn’t, I’ll show you a cop whose not been on the job long enough to find out.

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You start - show me the cop.

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if you show me a cop who isn’t, I’ll show you a cop whose not been on the job long enough to find out.

So MCAB or AACAB?

(Most / Almost All)

Was just discussing in another thread, referenced the Sith dealing in absolutes instead of using a phrase like “Policing Enables Bastards” in an attempt to be more accurate and harder to dismiss.

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Nah bruh you the one not helping if you trying to provide apologetics for this kind of behavior. It deserves no charity, and making the argument it does means you are the bad guy.

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Nah bruh, you don’t get it. You’re bootlicking the antibootlickers. I’ve got no horse in the race, I’m just talking logic.

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it’s a sample size of 1

Whoo! That was a good one. wipes tears of laughter

We should be so lucky.

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the fact it happened and she wasn’t helped instead shows you all you need to know. cops are dog shit. fuck them all, unempathetic ass hole bullies.

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15 points

For someone claiming to know words so well you’ve never heard of hyperbole?

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I have, yes.

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Yeah, thousands of individual instances, definitely not a pattern of systemic cruelty.

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Thousands of individual instances of pregnant women in labour being cited?

Again, words matter kiddies.

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A lack of empathy can legitimately be viewed as “cognitive damage”. And this is by no means an isolated case. Not even remotely.

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No it’s not an isolated case, but that comment is directly about this isolated case, stating it’s proof against an entire profession.

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Good comment - I think I’d disagree though. A lack of empathy can certainly be caused by cognitive damage but I don’t think it IS cognitive damage. I could be wrong though.

It’s not an isolated case, no, but this video and comment thread is.

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Agreed. Call it what you will, but this is not “cognitive damage”. These pigs aren’t retarded, they’re doing shit like this on purpose.

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Fucking thank you, someone who can see past emotion and use basic logic. The world needs more people like you

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8 points

Found the bastard cop.

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Good try, better luck next time

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If this was the first and only time it happened I’d agree with you. But it isn’t.

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That’s not a policeman, it’s a 2 legged piece of shit in a costume.

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They’re the same picture.

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Sen. Whitney Westerfield, a Republican from Fruit Hill who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, was one of the bill’s more vocal opponents. When he learned of the citation against a woman in labor, he called it “deplorable.”

A Republican showing compassion? Is that allowed?

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There’s always a “Republicans shocked to discovery what they vocally campaigned on would come to pass” headline in-between election cycles.

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This Republican was a voice against it, however.

There is a minority of Republicans that have actual republican values and are being drowned out, similarly to the socialists within the democratic party.

Its rare to see one, they have to hide now, leaving the typical “Republican” as a far right soulless thing. But this might be an instance of it.

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actual republican values

Actual Republican values are still deplorable. They are just more polite than what we’ve seen in recent years. The magats have done a great job of helping everyone to forget that R was never a friend to queer folks, minorities, women, nor anyone not white enough and Christian enough for them.

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It’s also important to note that state parties are different from the national party - as an example Vermont Republican Governor Scott is pro-choice and supportive of trans rights… a lot of state politicians aren’t there to grandstand and instead work to solve local problems. Now, that bullshit politicking has been making it’s way more often to the state level so that is changing but it’s usually good to read up on politicians at the state level.

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Not in Washington State, our r’s are hot garbage.

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Vermont Republican Governor Scott is pro-choice and supportive of trans rights…

That wasn’t particularly uncommon back in the 80s/90s when “Pro-Life” was more of a regional religion moniker than a partisan brand. We had Texas Republicans like Kay Bailey Hutchinson who were Pro-Choice and Delaware Democrats like Joseph Robinette Biden who were Pro-Life. Same with Log Cabin Republicans and DOMA-voting Democrats, straight through the Bush Jr administration.

Scott’s a classic “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” Republican that used to be all over the New England area a generation ago. He loves tax cuts for his buddies in business and private charity schemes that let philanthropists hog the limelight without obligating them to spend more than they feel like and small-government rhetoric that plays well with liberal libertarians. He’ll sign bills that loosely mandate the purchase of private insurance and cap property taxes that fund local schools, but shies away from a truly public health care or higher education system.

it’s usually good to read up on politicians at the state level.

They’ve got different masters than their national counterparts. But you’ll find just as many deplorables at the state level.

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A Republican talking about compassion while actually showing none is allowed, and actually encouraged.

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Definitely. Egregious lack of foresight they the police office didn’t write two tickets. One for her and one for the child she was carrying. Life begins at conception so that fetus is as guilty as she is.

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Lock it up! Lock it up!

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Didn’t read, Out of context comment, but he probably called the woman deplorable. 😂

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A Republican showing compassion? Is that allowed?

Next week they’ll be calling him a RINO just wait.

It’s enough for me to call him a RINO right now…

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It’s only because she wasn’t having a miscarriage

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I’m surprised they didn’t fine the baby

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You can’t fine a baby, you just fine the mother twice.

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Baby was loitering.

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In Texas u dont need to wait till its born to fine it.

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No one’s crueler to the needy like the “Christians” from America’s Bible Belt states.

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