Posted on 06/16/2020 12:42:05 PM PDT by Zenyatta
Hours before Albuquerque police detained alleged members of an armed civilian group when a protest erupted in gunfire Monday, the mayor of New Mexico's largest city announced that unarmed social workers not officers would now respond to certain 911 calls.
The decision came as Black Lives Matter advocates to defund police departments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody after Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25.
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced that the city would create a first-of-its-kind cabinet-level department that would respond to calls on inebriation, homelessness, addiction and mental health.
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Great! Police really don’t want to do social work. The problem will be when a social worker gets blown away and they will demand the police.
“This would make a great SNL skit. I can think of a bunch of scenarios.”
absolutely ... i’ve already imagined a skit where a bank robber is holed up with a bunch of hostages and a bunch of social workers come roaring up in a gaggle of Smart Cars with flashing blue lights ... the bank robber starts to shoot up the social workers yelling, “Take that you dirty social workers” ... the social workers start to discuss amongst themselves whether the bank robber has mother issues or father issues, where said discussions become more and more heated, eventually devolving into fisticuffs between the competing groups of social workers .... meanwhile, the bank robber takes advantage of the social worker melee to stroll away with the loot ...
I got a call two weeks ago from a real company who specializes in getting people hired by the federal gov.
I have no idea how they got my number but I did a reverse phone call check and they were legitimate.
They wanted to help me get employed by a company similar to TSA.
Seemed pretty strange for a legitimate company.
Definite ethnic accent.
Man that was funny.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
THIS IS HOW YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE YOUR 2ND AMENDMENT!
they send social worker...then they come get your guns.
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