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28-05-2021, 02:56 PM | #1 | |||
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[A prominent left-wing politician and mayoral candidate
has thanked authorities for their efforts following the theft of his car, despite voting to defund the local police department last year. Antonio Brown, city council member for Atlanta, was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday afternoon with local community leader Ben Norman when his white Mercedes was jacked by four black youths. “One kid was in the driver’s seat,” Brown told Fox 5 Atlanta. “Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car. He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car. The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas. Ben let go. “As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble. And I would have hurt him,” he added.] https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/the...-antonio-brown Last edited by arista; 28-05-2021 at 02:57 PM. |
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28-05-2021, 04:11 PM | #2 | |||
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POW! BLAM!
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I think they call that karma.
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28-05-2021, 04:27 PM | #3 | ||
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They'd only call it karma if they had a complete misunderstanding of what defund the police means, as all right wingers seem to have.
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28-05-2021, 05:43 PM | #4 | |||
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You know my methods
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coin silly bandwaggon phrases and then prepare to look like a fool
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28-05-2021, 08:00 PM | #5 | |||
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Regardless of what amazingly well thought out and deep meanings are hidden beneath the tagline "Defund The Police", the thing that was being voted for would have cut police funding by a third.
Luckily, the councilors saw sense when the police decided to show them what a defunded police force would look like, and went on semi-strike, and of course crime skyrocketed. |
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28-05-2021, 08:45 PM | #6 | ||
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The problem is that you're seeing this through a UK lens which the police are underfunded and not through the US lens where the police receive enough of a budget for equipment that would make an army general blush but not enough invested in proper training or background checks which is why the US police shoot more people dead than in any other equivalent country. Any officer that would choose to strike over such a thing, and more likely over security measures to try to dissuade them from murdering first and asking questions later, well, they're probably some of these 'rare' bad eggs we're told about. Putting people in harm's way to use the crime statistics to justify spending in the wrong places doesn't strike me as something a moral person would do. Last edited by Tom4784; 28-05-2021 at 08:46 PM. |
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