Videos of (eg) police shootings are great because historically police controlled narratives around police violence; people got to see a diagram of a cell drawn by cells. Very tidy, very helpful, and in this case deeply misleading Video makes such authorial abuses difficult
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at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This would be a more compelling argument if the video didn’t often flatly contradict the story from the police. Context is one thing. But when you tell a lot of lies, people start to think you’re a liar.
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Yah seems like people got overtrained on this and overcorrected Idk, cases like: Consider the guy in Minneapolis who considered suicide--video supported police HARD and everyone still rioted Or, consider a very different case (Covington)
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Sure. People gloss over the tremendous variation between states, departments, individual cops, and cases. But reputations are stronger than facts. Too bad the cops and prosecutors burned their credibility with all those lies. That’s on them.
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They got the benefit of the doubt for decades, and only lost it when universal video taught us they lie like breathing. Now we disbelieve them even when they tell the truth. Too bad about the wolves.
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Tv is so powerful that Canadians even get confused about what country is in play here. A third of us think we have a right to a Miranda warning. Confusion, built on fiction, founded on deception.
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Replying to @michaelabuckley @eigenrobot
I’m old enough to remember Ms Clinton explaining why cops needed a free hand to deal with superpredators in the war-on-(black)-drugs. Evil shit for my entire life. I’m sorry your sowing was so thorough.
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Sorry. You meaning USA. Back in 1996 the Clintons were riding/leading the tough-on-crime dem triangulation. Lots of legislation and money to enable the gonzo-violent police transformation of the last 40 years. Bi-partisan project to give the police carte blanche and gut the 5th.
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Mounties tho I have a bunch of thoughts about us criminal justice and the nature and origin of it Its pretty blackpill honestly ':(
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Replying to @eigenrobot
The RCMP was created to suppress the native population, keep the worst of the yanks under control, and make the NW safe for white settlement. They were modeled after the Royal Irish Constabulary. So yeah. Robert Peel was not consulted.
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Police in general are a socialized shift of a cost that would otherwise fall on our rulers and their well-regulated militias. How much say I get for my funding is a contested question. But Peelism exists. Skinner is here on the hell-site.
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