Foolsgo1d said:
Samseau said:
TheWastelander said:
Samseau said:
The thing is, the police offer was just following orders. If he were to be arrested for following orders, then the entire system would undermine itself to the point of being inoperable. Cops are selected for their obedience to the law. They don't want cops who use discretion in enforcing the law. They want obedient soldiers.
This guy put Eric Garner in a chokehold because those were his orders. The problem isn't the cops, the problem isn't racism, the problem is the laws themselves.
- Illegally selling cigarettes? Talk about a bullshit law.
- Cops being told to use near lethal force at the first sign of resistance? Good for preserving the cop's life, bad for preserving citizen's lives. Where is the balance?
People are focusing their efforts on the wrong problem. It's not the cop who matters, he was just a peon following orders. It's the entire system. But people can't see the big picture, they can only focus on the particulars. Hence the escalating race relations.
He wasn't ordered to choke Garner out. In fact, the chokehold is against NYPD policy. So if anything, he violated "his orders."
If the cop was violating his orders and protocols he would have been found guilty and thrown in jail. Since he was not found guilty it follows the chokehold was part of his orders.
Come on mate, you're not that stupid. The blues never convict their own in such circumstances.
Pretty obvious that the general level of ignorance on the American court system is very high.
The courts use a jury of individuals with no connection to the case. The juries are the ones who determine if the man was guilty or not. The jurors were not cops.
That said, the jurors are given specific instructions on what to determine guilt on. So the question they were asked was, "Did the cop break his protocols surrounding subduing a resisting suspect or not?"
The question was not, "Did he kill a man unjustly," or "Did he use more force than necessary."
The question is,
Did he follow his fucking orders, and quite obviously he was. You guys think you can throw a man in prison for following orders - you're all insane. No one would ever follow the law again. Who the fuck would become a cop if you're damned if you do, damned if you don't follow orders?
The problem is not the cops, and most people are just blind to how the system works and maintains control. By focusing on the individual cops (his race, his methods of subduing a criminal) people lose focus of the big picture and America spirals towards it's inevitable race war or extreme tyranny.
If posters on this board, who are already far above average in terms of intelligence cannot understand that the cop who subdued Eric Garner was just doing his job, then I can only imagine just how uninformed and stupid the rest of the public is.
As if this cop is important. Had it not been him it would have been some other stooge. What if it had been a Black cop? Would anyone care? Or is it only police brutality when it's the wrong race? Such retarded notions govern American political life and it's obvious why this country is doomed.
The cop was just a little peon at the bottom, he was taking orders set up by men who do not care about anyone except themselves. If people wanted real change they wouldn't be talking about racism, they'd be talking about a revolution to kill most of the people at the top of our government structures. But the people are dummies who think if they change the symptoms they can cure the disease, and this country continues to burn.
