To Protect and to Serve II

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Vol0725 said:
Powerful Video of Milwaukee Chief Flynn after police commission meeting...

Police Chief Edward Flynn speaks to reporters after a Fire and Police Commission meeting Thursday night concerning the shooting of Dontre Hamilton. During the meeting, Flynn learned that a 5-year-old girl was shot and killed.

Chief Flynn after Nov. 6 police commission meeting - YouTube

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Police Chief Edward Flynn has had enough.
Recently, the chief of Milwaukee’s law enforcement agency came under attack by black activists. The activists accused Flynn of not taking a recent officer-involved shooting seriously. That shooting ended with a black man named Donte Hamilton dead. The officer was defending himself from a potentially deadly attack by the deranged Hamilton, who had taken a police baton and violently assaulted the responding officer.
As in Ferguson, groups very quickly accused white officers of being racist and of targeting blacks for no reason. At a police commission meeting related to that shooting, protesters began disrupting the group and shouting anti-police phrases at officers.
They also singled out Chief Flynn as being uncaring and mocked him for being on his cell phone during part of the meeting. There was only one problem: Flynn was actually on his phone being notified about a drive-by shooting that was carried out by a black gang, which took the life of a 5-year-old girl. When a reporter outside the meeting brought up the phone call as a way to belittle Chief Flynn, he took it personally — and unleashed a verbal thrashing on the gathered crowd. “I was on my phone, that’s true,” Flynn began. “I was following developments with a 5-year-old little girl, sitting on her dad’s lap who just got shot in the head by a drive by shooting.”
Then his demeanor changed, and Flynn appeared visibly upset by the words he had just spoken.
“If some of the people here gave a good ******* about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I’d take some of their invective more seriously.”
Then Flynn turned his righteous anger toward the race baiters, who were trying to use every event a to call white officers racist.
“The greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee is getting shot and killed, hello! 80 percent of my homicide victims every year are African American. 80 percent of our aggravated assault victims are African American.”
He tore into the the people trying to use a police-involved shooting to push an agenda, instead of facing the real crime that is happening all around them.
“Now, they know all about the last three people that have been killed by the Milwaukee police department over the course of the last several years,” the upset Flynn stated. “There’s not one of them, can name one of the last three homicide victims we’ve had in this city.”
He continued: “This city is at risk all right — but it’s not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it.”
The veteran officer then tried to calm himself before finishing up with one final point.
“We’re going up there, and there’s a bunch of cops processing the scene of a dead kid. And they’re the ones that are gonna be out there patrolling and stopping suspects that might have guns under the front seat. They’re the ones that are gonna take the risk to their lives, to try to clean this thing up.”
The video is a moving reminder that it is easy to criticize the police — but the reality is, they are the ones who face crime and violence on a daily basis, so that others don’t have to.
It is refreshing to see this kind of brutal honesty about the black-on-black gang crime that is destroying cities… and to be reminded about who actually has to deal with it
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Black on black crime is a far bigger issue and concern than police shootings. I get that. It still doesn't mean that cops should get a free pass when they recklessly kill unarmed civilians over the most minor of infractions.

Why is this so hard for most of you to comprehend?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Black on black crime is a far bigger issue and concern than police shootings. I get that. It still doesn't mean that cops should get a free pass when they recklessly kill unarmed civilians over the most minor of infractions.

Why is this so hard for most of you to comprehend?
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Who said they can't comprehend anything?
 
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LouderVol said:
its basically a quarantine. they are experiencing an epidemic and the city is wanting to cut down on the spread. these people are putting more at risk by their good deeds. even those they are there to help.
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The best idea they could come up with is to arrest people for handing out food?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The best idea they could come up with is to arrest people for handing out food?
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better than internment camps for any who might be infected. and the law isn't targeted at do gooders. its a catch all. and there are probably still ways to give out food.

looking at it they could have just shown up, dropped the food off, called over the homeless they are helping and left and been fine.

it sucks, and hopefully no real charges stick, but you cant allow a disease to spread. we are spoiled here in 21st century America
 
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What world is this?

Justin M. Johnson, a deputy in Sevier County, Tennessee, whose bodycam caught him firing wildly and without warning at an unarmed man who had been filming him. The footage then shows Johnson suffering a severe panic attack. The man doing the filming has since been charged with assault for causing the deputy's panic.

What makes the tale even more upsetting is Johnson's previous poor performance as a police officer, a track record that should have prevented him from being hired in the first place.

The JCPD hired Johnson in June 2013, and he almost immediately started causing problems. The News-Sentinel reports that his superiors had to provide him with weekly remedial training and that they cited him for "unsafe handling of guns and suspects."

At one point, Johnson reportedly "fanned" fellow officers with his weapon.

Johnson then lied to his superiors about an extramarital affair he was having. In October 2013, he reportedly emailed Johnson City Police Chief Mark Sirois to tell him that a "'lunatic' woman with a 'fatal attraction'" would be filing a fallacious complaint against him.

A complaint was then filed by a former lover of Johnson's alleging that he had told her to kill herself over text after his wife discovered their affair. Johnson had also called the Children's Services anonymously to complain that his former lover was neglecting her children.

After his deception was uncovered, Johnson was reportedly allowed to resign instead of being terminated.

In June he applied for a job with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office. His application tactfully left off his time at the JCPD, and he was promptly hired. In December 2016, Johnson had his fateful panic attack.
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Tennessee Deputy Who Suffered Panic Attack After Firing At Unarmed Man Had Track Record of Lying and Incompetence at Previous Police Department - Hit & Run : Reason.com
 
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Wasn't JCPD the ones that wouldn’t say where they took a drunk officer who wrecked so they couldn’t get a blood draw on him?
 
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Wow. The county is attempting to charge him with assaulting an officer in an attempt to prevent him from filing suit against the county for property damages.

That's as corrupt as it gets.
 
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I was in Chattanooga this week for work and I saw a local policeman helping a motorist broke down on 1-24 Friday morning who might have been 7 Feet tall or he was helping a midget
 
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I don't always agree with this cop's conclusions to everything, but we're on the same page on this one.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D654pHXOLdk[/youtube]
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I don't always agree with this cop's conclusions to everything, but we're on the same page on this one.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D654pHXOLdk[/youtube]
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His final words pretty much sum up the problem with law enforcement in this country.

"Cops aren't held accountable enough... That's why there's so much abuse."
 
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Grand Vol said:
This is why you fail...
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No one in any position of authority should ever be trusted.

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Vol8188 said:
If I said I had 1 or 50 it wouldn't make a difference in the validity of my argument. If you teach your kids the importance of respecting authority, don't be shocked when the priest rapes them
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You should teach your kids to question authority and respect it until given a reason not to.
 
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tumscalcium said:
Definitely a reach there.
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Is that not an example of an authority figure taking advantage of a child who was taught to respect authority?

And would a child taught to question authority not be more likely to speak up in that scenario?
 
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