You get arrested for weed. They get a vacation mistaking an acorn for gunshots and shooting at an unarmed civilian
To be fair he’s right with his second comment, cops are working class traitors and not bourgeoisie
The right take here is:
- Cops are the armed enforcers of capitalism and thus have all manner of special protections and privileges
- Cops do some public service work (bourgeois democracy is not totally unresponsive to the popular demand for that)
- Cops have many of the same workplace issues as anyone else punching a timecard, even if how these issues present and get resolved is shaped heavily by (1)
yeah its very confused to exclude cops from the category ‘worker’, but eliding the context of what that work does is extremely myopic. the guys who design layoffs and labor discipline are workers, the people who police & manage workers are very often workers, and the actual police are workers.
that not all workers do pro-social work is not that huge of a hump to get over but white radlibs seem to get intensely hung up on it wrt cops & troops
A fun puzzle to pose to libs is ask them why cop unions are still so powerful while the other unions have been crushed. There isn’t anything in their worldview that holds explanatory power over it.
This is asking a lib to do material analysis, aka a complete waste of time.
Are they actually talking about acorn cop
From Corn Pop to Acorn Cop. The reality simulator is running on fumes.
to be fair, acorn cop resigned before the investigation concluded. in the released investigation documents, it’s pretty clear the institution recognized pretty quick what a threat he was to literally everyone and probably told him to get gone, because they weren’t going to cover for him. it will probably be weeks before some other suburban Florida shithole scoops him up.
having read the entire investigation transcript (it is hilarious), the absolute wildest and overlooked detail is that the acorn cop (Jesse Hernandez, former Deputy sheriff of Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department) was known to the department via his resume as a former officer in the army special forces with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, though he admitted in the investigation having never been in actual combat, but had “commanded men who had been in combat”. however the fuck that works. anyway, he was new in the department, but was regarded up until then by his supervisor on the scene as being a reliable, level-headed person with a calm, professional emotional temperament.
the deeper story behind this crazy shit is this Tier 1 Bozo pulling all this special forces clout to become barney fife and winding up being the most incompetent and mentally fragile clown in possibly all of florida law enforcement, and therefore arguably the planet and human history.
like this guy should be lowjacked and monitored for the rest of his life, and for certain should never carry a gun again, but dollars to donuts he will use that same “i’m former special forces” b.s. to get into some other high trust position.
though he admitted in the investigation having never been in actual combat, but had “commanded men who had been in combat”.
It’s stuff like this that makes me think the US army would just fall apart the instant they had to fight a peer competitor that could actually fight back.
At the minimum the officer corps would get shaken the fuck up real quick. Look at Syria. Initial losses and setbacks to ISIS. Desk pilots got tossed. Competence got rewarded. The SAA is pretty fucking battle hardened now.
I wonders to meself… “Self? If this asshole didn’t immediately resign, would they have made him take a blood/piss test for illegal substances? If so, what would the lab find?”
regarded up until then by his supervisor on the scene as being a reliable, level-headed person with a calm, professional emotional temperament.
This sounds like corporate speech from someone who didn’t knew him but had to write an answer to a journalist.
you’re not wrong about the language, but the audience was the investigation panel and the official record. the other cop involved also shot a few rounds into vehicle, and the way they played it, she had her legal representation with her during questioning/deposition and her reason for shooting was she “believed” the deputy’s claims of being shot at/taking fire and being hit and “believed” she was about to see a cop die, so it’s certainly self-serving for her to claim her interactions with him up until this point made him reliable and not, a deranged lunatic prone to losing his shit.
again, the official investigation document is a hysterical read. it’s the story of the entire apparatus putting all possible weight on the acorn cop so they can exonerate the other cop present for drawing her weapon and also shooting at an occupied cop car with no target. so they make absolutely sure to go over acorn cop’s moves with extremely funny detail.
the most incompetent and mentally fragile clown in possibly all of florida law enforcement
Quite the prestigious accomplishment considering the competition.
