It’s going to happen again, just a matter of time, and if it doesn’t, they will pretend it did whenever it suits them best.
I’ll see your teachers unions, and call with the police unions.
Show or fold
At a minimum, any financial judgment against a police department should come straight out of the Union pension fund. Hurt every cop associated with the department.
“””””No one wants to watch an innocent man suffocate under the knee of a cop”””””””””””””””””””
I think he meant to say...No one wants to watch a career criminal die of a heart attack and heroin overdose.
fix.
How about do away with.
NO...NO...NO.. while the unions are part of the problem, the problem lies at the ballot box.... mayors appoint chief of police, who in turn not only allow but encourage this type of behavior in the department...... vote in a tyrant, get a tyrannical police department...
“I imagine their predominantly minority faces and wonder how can I keep them from a similar fate?”
You could tell them not to serve 5 years for a home invasion, don’t work as a porn actor, don’t do a mix of fentanyl and meth, don’t steal while you are high, and don’t resist cops when the catch you.
That might help.
And a teacher...warning us about police unions. That’s rich...
Given that horrible unrest happens even if a white policeman was justified in killing a black thug, it is impossible to fix the problem without addressing the systematic pathology of the black community and the Democrat Party.
I disagree. Mayor Guiliani proved the police union thesis is false. Therefore, all protests should be focused on calling for the resignation of the Mayor of Minneapolis and the Governor of the state. Anything less than this is embracing the bigotry of systematic racism of the leadership in Minnesota for the last 40 years. Either the Mayor or the Governor could have already fired the police chief and charged every investigator who ever held a paper with these officer’s names on them. The Mayor and Governors’ refusal to end this cycle of violence through leadership so has proven the racism to which they are blind...
These people understand this language and get white-hot when it is turned on them. The Gov of Minnesota needs to resign.
“Even after the most egregious conduct, many cops keep their jobs.”
Me and my family got to see this sort of thing in action at a very personal level with the teacher’s union back in the early ‘90s (one of the things that helped to convert me into a conservative, do not wish to discuss publicly).
Or......get rid of police and return to putting LE squarely in the hands of an elected official.....the SHERIFF.
We have laws...Obey them...
Minneapolis is Rat from top to bottom. Rat governor, Rat mayor and on and on. Rat City Attorney Klobuchar didn’t bother to do anything about this Chauvin guy even after complaints of serious misconduct. Minneapolis could not be more thoroughly Rat-infested. So, no, the problem isn’t the police unions. The problems is this rodent infestation in all of the Blue areas of the country.
Maybe the police should have some changes made, but why doesn’t ANYONE ever suggest that blacks themselves change their behavior so that they don’t bring themselves into so much contact with the police?
This is an excellent piece. I know conservatives like me like to rail on teachers unions because I believe they’re in it for themselves and don’t give a hoot about children. But if we were honest with ourselves, I think we have a blind spot when it comes to cops and even police unions. But public sector unions of every kind should not exist including police unions. Striking and collective bargaining certainly should not be allowed if you’re on the public dole.
Unions for public workers should be abolished.
The only way to fix public unions is to abolish them. They are an abomination.
Private unions are fine as long as management has the right to fire and rehire after good faith negotiations have failed.
I think it's high time for conservatives to get off this idea that we should reflexively defend police officers because they somehow reinforce our idea of a "law and order" society.
That's nonsense. An armed citizen should reinforce our idea of a "law and order" society. A police officer is emblematic of: (1) a society where crime is so rampant that a permanent police presence is needed, and/or (2) a citizenry too weak and cowardly to defend itself and who see the police as nothing more than taxpayer-funded security guards.