Las Vegas is feeling the heat of the immigration fight going into the weekend. Nearly 100 protesters were hauled off after an anti-ICE rally turned confrontational. Organizers say they will be back out on Saturday. CBS News reporter Andres Gutierrez has more.
The vandals hide among the rest, so the police has to disband everyone to stop things from reoccurring. When people don’t disperse when told to do so, or fight against the police when they try to make them comply, then things escalate. The police doesn’t have other options, sadly.
People have to realize that the police don’t do things if everyone follows the rules. They aren’t pigs or fascists, but people like the rest of us. The narrative on this site has gone completely haywire.
There are some policemen who do wrong stuff. I don’t know how many police officers are in the US, but I would be surprised if it is less than 200k. Take the stories you have heard and divide that number by 200,000, and consider the fact that they are put in rough positions a lot more often than you and I, and you should arrive at the result that they aren’t any worse than the rest of us.
The dehumanizing of the cops here on Lemmy is rampant, and it isn’t fair to the vast majority of cops who don’t do the bad stuff.
Ever heard of “1 bad apple spoils the bunch”? In this case one good apple either dies, or spoils. There’s literally no such thing as a good cop.
Any cop you think is good? Go put them in riot gear, give them some grenade launchers, and then give them a crowd of different colored people. Id bet big money that good cop would either do what the rest of the cops around them do, (fuck up a crowd) or they would immediately quit/help the defenseless civilians who are being assaulted with tear gas and rubber bullets.