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Title: Why #BlueLivesMatter & Cop Apologists Are ....
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The Anti-Media
URL Source: http://theantimedia.org/why-blueliv ... er-cop-apologists-fcking-joke/
Published: Jul 15, 2015
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2015-07-17 11:24:22 by Deckard
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Views: 37878
Comments: 128
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Rationalization. Willful denial. Cognitive dissonance. Whatever term you prefer, it boils down to irrational mental gymnastics in order to avoid the uncomfortability that arises when encountering a contradiction to a firmly held belief. But a particularly vitriolic faction of Americans—who apparently have the wool surgically implanted over their eyes—has taken this flawed reasoning and turned it into a laughable case of Stockholm Syndrome: cop apologists.
Funny thing about denial: it’s absurdly predictable.
As if on cue, rationalization commenced from the moment Gardena Police dash cam footage of the shooting death of Diaz Zeferino on June 2, 2013 (posted below) finally began circulating on social media after a lengthy legal battle for its release. While countless people’s jaws dropped in horror witnessing seven cops gun down the unarmed and non-threatening man, others were occupied creating mental notes for their version of the reason he deserved to die.
It could easily be a checklist:
The group of three precisely matched the unbelievably vague and overbroad description of the suspects? Check.
Zeferino presented himself in a threatening manner? Check.
He didn’t follow the officers’ orders with exacting precision? Check.
They thought he had a gun, right? Of course!
Every cop on the scene feared for their life? No question!
And a death sentence is appropriate punishment given these questionable circumstances? Absolutely!
This has become quite the tiresome pattern. An alarming video surfaces that every sane person views as yet more evidence of appalling abuse of police power and dwindling civil rights—and is immediately followed by logic-defying, mind-bending, utterly unreasonable explanations for why yet another person “deserved” execution by cop. In fact, this pattern is so typical, it necessitated the creation of a meme: “I’m just here to see who’s gonna try to justify this shit.”
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How incredibly apt.
Such inexplicable excuses for the explicitly inexplicable are more offensive to common sense and logical deduction than pig shit in August. Without the hindrance of coherent dialectic even attempting to enter the thought process, justifying State violence is easier than phonics. Simple, yes. But it’s still uninformed nonsense.
Nonsense because the go-to argument is wholly devoid of fact—the notion that “police have such a dangerous job.” Sorry to burst that soapbox bubble, but police officer didn’t even rank in the top ten most dangerous jobs in the U.S. After the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics fatal occupational injuries list was thoroughly updated in late April of this year, a total of 35 police officers had been killed by people (or animals) in the line of duty. That might seem like a high number on its own. However, the argument that cops work in an atmosphere of constant danger is fundamentally flawed—even by the most cursory comparison.
Considering 37 food preparation workers, 40 construction workers, 53 retail salespeople, and 67 sales supervisors died at work in the same manner as the 35 aforementioned cops . . . it’s arguable we’re arming the wrong occupation entirely. Though statistics for the number of people killed by salespeople on the clock aren’t readily available, it’s safe to say there weren’t many—if there were any at all.
Yet police officers—whose job is slightly less risky than preparing food—literally kill people by the hundreds.
To date, American cops have killed at least 613 people. This is tragic for countless reasons, not the most minor of which is the imperative need to use the qualifier “at least”—necessary because that figure was yesterday’s estimate; and on average, police in the U.S. have taken a life every 7½ hours in 2015. It’s also necessary because the alarming lack of a national requirement to report these killings means that responsibility transposes to a diffuse but committed network of concerned citizens, journalists, civil rights advocates, and the families and friends of the victims. Thus, estimates must be aggregated from a mix of voluntarily offered and publicly available information—which means the numbers are consequently inaccurate on the low side.
Similar countries just do not have this problem. Icelandic police have fatally shot one person in the nation’s entire 71 years in existence. Police in England and Wales, combined, shot 55 people to death—in the past 24 years. Germany has been given a violent reputation in America, but their police “only” killed 15 people over a period of two years. For Australian police, that number was 94 over nine years. Even Canada—a nation many believe is the most logical comparison to the U.S.—averages 25 fatalities by police per year.
One more time for the sake of emphasis: this is the 195th day in 2015—and American police have already killed no less than 613 people.
That many killings by police is not a problem—it is the entire ship engulfed in flames on the open ocean without a single life preserver.
It’s simply no longer accurate to describe indiscriminate brutality of this scale as an epidemic—not when lack of accountability also equates virtual impunity.
No. This is institutionalized, systematic violence by the State—normalized.
America has become a police state.
Your argument is invalid.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Punk, give us your opinion on the Muslim scumbag who killed the 4 Marines yesterday. Show the forum your Muslim sympathetic side.
I have no sympathy for him.
Well then you certainly agree with this:
Muhammad McCain Academy of Jihad The Chattanooga shooter was an Arizona Muslim, likely trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
Careful - ole Percy will call you a kook for pointing out that documented fact.
That's factual?
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What hondo posted and you confirmed in your response was NOT factual. Document that Abdulazeez "was an Arizona Muslim."
From Gateway Pundit: Islamist Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was identified by CBS News as the gunman who fatally shot four Marines and wounded a police officer on Thursdayin Chattanooga. Four Marines were shot dead Thursday morning. The suspect drove up to two locations in a Mustang, according to CBS News, and used a “high-powered” weapon to fire into both facilities. Officials say it was domestic terrorism. SHOOTER’S NAME: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
He's a pig from Kuwait & had no business in this country, and what does this nonsense have to do with your inclination to defend these Islamic animals?
Not too bright, are ya sparky. Seems to me that McCain is the one defending (and posing for pictures with them I might add). You and the other short bus rider Gatlin should probably direct your faux outrage at him and the other neo-con scum.
Percy is not the one posting the erroneous information. You are posting a lie. And now that you have been pinned to the wall, you choose to ignore that. But I will not let you. So, since you obviously have trouble with your research….let me help you. Abdulazeez is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kuwait. His family is Jordanian. He came to the United States in 1996 with his parents. He lived in Hixson, Tennessee, which is a community in Chattanooga, in a middle-class Muslim family. Abdulazeez attended Red Bank High School in Tennessee. Abdulazeez graduated from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 2012 with a degree in electrical engineering. He never lived in, or visited, Arizona. You need to be more careful to insure you post correct information. Fact finding can be your best friend. You never seem to get anything correct….why is that?
See, there....you pay attention to nothing. I posted that in there to see if you were paying attention and I proved you never pay attention to anything. Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait in September 1990,
Still waiting for you to tell the class how you know with absolute certainty that he never visited Arizona. Oh - you can't? I suggest you shut your festering pie hole then.
Still waiting for you to first admit you posted wrong information. Oh, you won't? I suggest you start posting TRUTH.
Where's your verification that he NEVER took a trip to Arizona?
#72. To: Deckard (#68)
Where's your verification that he WAS from Arizona?
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#6. To: Percy Misanthrope (#1)
Punk, give us your opinion on the Muslim scumbag who killed the 4 Marines yesterday.
#17. To: Deckard (#6)
I have no sympathy for him.
#21. To: Percy Misanthrope, Deckard, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#17)
#30. To: hondo68 (#21)
The Chattanooga shooter was an Arizona Muslim, likely trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
#31. To: Deckard (#30)
trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
#34. To: yukon, hondo68 (#31)
trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
#35. To: Deckard, hondo68 (#34)
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That's factual?
#38. To: Gatlin, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope, idiot canary clan members (#35)
(Edited)
Document that Abdulazeez "was an Arizona Muslim."
The shooter attacked two different military facilities in Chattanooga.
FOUR MARINES ARE DEAD!
He is from Arizona.
#40. To: Deckard (#38)
#42. To: Percy Misanthrope, Gatlin (#40)
He's a pig from Kuwait & had no business in this country, and what does this nonsense have to do with your inclination to defend these Islamic animals?
#45. To: Deckard, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope, The Exalted Canary Clan (#42)
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Not too bright, are ya sparky.
#53. To: Deckard (#45)
His family is Jordanian.
#54. To: Gatlin (#53)
#59. To: Deckard (#54)
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#68. To: Gatlin (#59)
Replies to Comment # 68. Where's your verification that he NEVER took a trip to Arizona?
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