On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:36:10 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 12/1/14 10:08 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:54:22 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for
Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St.
Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team
discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal
apology, reports KSDK.

In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers
Association condemned the display, calling it “tasteless, offensive and
inflammatory.”

Prior to player introductions before Sunday’s game, five players —
Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt
— came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to
being joined by their teammates.

Responding to the display, the statement reads, “The St. Louis Police
Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the
St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of
evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and
engage in a display that police officers around the nation found
tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.”


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What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents
in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians.

Maybe the police unions should get more involved with policing bad
cops.


Maybe you should learn what the purpose of a labor union is.

Well, here you go:

To see how this is so, we can take a look at some recent police union
activities that have been in the news lately…

In Rockford Illinois, for example, a police union organized a
fundraiser event for two men accused of shooting an unarmed man to
death inside of a church daycare center, all within view of several
children and daycare workers… and one of the prizes the police were
raffling off was a police-issue rifle.

In Birmingham Alabama, police officers organized a “barbecue butts”
benefit in order to bankroll the defense fees for five people who were
caught on video kicking and beating an unconscious man who was just
ejected from a car during an accident. Coincidentally, the president
of that organization hosting the $30 a butt benefit was disciplined
for his role in association with that case.

In Chicago Illinois, police officers recently hosted a $50-a-ticket
fundraiser amid community protests in order to help to pay the defense
costs for an alleged drunk driver facing reckless homicide charges for
when he hit a parked car while drunk and caused an explosion that
killed two. The suspect had a record of DUI arrests and was
apprehended while trying to flee the scene of the accident with a BAC
3x the legal limit.

Now, it’s only fair to mention that the suspects discussed above are
police officers and the organizations which hosted or organized these
benefits are police unions… but should it matter? In cases of criminal
behavior, should there be a distinction between police officer and
suspect when the individual in question is one and the same?

Looks like the unions look after bad cops pretty well. Maybe they
should cease and desist that activity. Bad cops are definitely in
conflict with your desire that 'innocent' civilians not be persecuted.