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crosberg: 8bitian: leahj: solitaryforager: Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit Let me say for the 5th time, that the use of this image is priming the pump for violence. It doesn’t help that Chicago cops are dead set on beating the everloving shit out of anybody protesting or demonstrating. They’re chomping on the bit so hard that they are complaining that the mayor doesn’t want them to bring guns. You know what? I wasn’t going to say anything, but this is pissing me off.  Leah is damn right: let’s not pump people up to violence. But seriously? Where the fuck is your proof that cops are “chomping at the bit” and that they want to beat the shit out of people? ALL of the cops I know are concerned about people’s SAFETY.  The cops that help out at Critical Mass have to put up with people breaking the law on purpose to test them, screaming things like “pig” and “I smell bacon”.  And then they get headbutted by assholes wearing bike helmets, and when they detain people for ASSAULTING AN OFFICER the bikers start screaming about brutality and bitching that they can’t record it. I agree that should be able to record the police.  But fuck you with sandpaper if you genuinely think that the entire CPD is just waiting to beat the shit out of protesters for the fact that they are protesters.  Don’t let some bad cops allow you to color an entire city that way.  Don’t let your own fucking bigotry show how ignorant and naive you are.  Remember all those officers from other cities that got arrested while standing with protesters in NYC?  They’re cops too, asshat.  So are the guys that ride the bus with me every morning, and the ones that stopped assholes that work in the CBOT from assaulting the Occupy protesters when I was walking to my bus stop one night. tl;dr version: grow the hell up and stop blaming cops for everything. I know I’ll probably regret posting this but I can’t STAND it when people blast cops like this. Read it from cops own mouths: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13350456&postID=4268496346732221351This particular blog post is about using tape to cover their names.  But go through the G8 related posts and read the comments.

January 27, 2012 Reblogged from socialuprooting by growfoodraisehell

crosberg:

8bitian:

leahj:

solitaryforager:

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

Let me say for the 5th time, that the use of this image is priming the pump for violence.

It doesn’t help that Chicago cops are dead set on beating the everloving shit out of anybody protesting or demonstrating. They’re chomping on the bit so hard that they are complaining that the mayor doesn’t want them to bring guns.

You know what? I wasn’t going to say anything, but this is pissing me off.  Leah is damn right: let’s not pump people up to violence.

But seriously? Where the fuck is your proof that cops are “chomping at the bit” and that they want to beat the shit out of people? ALL of the cops I know are concerned about people’s SAFETY.  The cops that help out at Critical Mass have to put up with people breaking the law on purpose to test them, screaming things like “pig” and “I smell bacon”.  And then they get headbutted by assholes wearing bike helmets, and when they detain people for ASSAULTING AN OFFICER the bikers start screaming about brutality and bitching that they can’t record it.

I agree that should be able to record the police.  But fuck you with sandpaper if you genuinely think that the entire CPD is just waiting to beat the shit out of protesters for the fact that they are protesters.  Don’t let some bad cops allow you to color an entire city that way.  Don’t let your own fucking bigotry show how ignorant and naive you are.  Remember all those officers from other cities that got arrested while standing with protesters in NYC?  They’re cops too, asshat.  So are the guys that ride the bus with me every morning, and the ones that stopped assholes that work in the CBOT from assaulting the Occupy protesters when I was walking to my bus stop one night.

tl;dr version: grow the hell up and stop blaming cops for everything.

I know I’ll probably regret posting this but I can’t STAND it when people blast cops like this.

Read it from cops own mouths: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13350456&postID=4268496346732221351

This particular blog post is about using tape to cover their names.  But go through the G8 related posts and read the comments.

(Source: socialuprooting)

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