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Why is everyone surprised .... this what the police have always done against striking workers.
By design they are meant to maintain law and order ... not to serve and protect people ... the whole 'serve and protect' phrase was marketing campaign by the LAPD created by police propaganda in the 1960s and it didn't have any actual obligation for the police to serve or to protect people ... it was just a catchy phrase that made the police sound good when they in fact could do the opposite or nothing at all. But no matter how they treated people, they always throughout history have always consistently protected wealth, property and those with power.
Not at all or qualified immunity, officer and prosecutorial discretion wouldn't exist.
Correct, they're asset protection for the highest earners.
If they truly were meant to uphold the law, they would be held to the highest standards of said law and prosecuted for the slightest deviation from it.
Correct.
Nice to have a bit of physical imagery to wave around when you're dealing with a liberal who insists police are these neutral non-partisan agents.
Not that it'll necessarily work, of course. I can already hear some pensioner with a Harris sticker insisting that "um, aktuly, its the union that's being violent and the police who are being civil and restrained". But for the younger and more clear-eyed, its a damning current indictment of a system you mostly just read about in history books.
What kind of liberals do you know that would stick up for the police!?
Old people I'd imagine, tho throwing the Liberal blanket on them seems pretty disingenuous. Old folks gonna be old
Nicely summarized in Robocop.